The land trembled as underground detonations split the earth, killing the settlers and burying both the NCR companies holding the area and Legionnaires dispatched to cut the supply lines running through the Divide to Hoover Dam. The results were immediate and devastating buried deep beneath Hopeville and Ashton, the warheads answered the call in the only way they could: detonation. This, in turn, activated several of the still-active nuclear warheads left in underground silos since the Great War. This device turned out to be a messenger of destruction: someone activated the device, which began "speaking". Ulysses was fascinated by the package, bearing the sigil of pre-War America, but also one he had never seen before. Ulysses had tentative plans to save the community, but before he could act, the Courier, hired by the NCR, unintentionally brought a package from Navarro containing the launch codes for the ICBM stockpile in the Divide's old nuclear missile silos. To Ulysses' dismay, the prosperous community was discovered and annexed by the NCR, which in turn drew the attention of Caesar, who sent in a small army to take it over. Between 22, he discovered a community in the region called " The Divide" which was, in his own words, "a nation taking its first breath", surrounded and shaped by the symbols of the Old World, with the potential to become a real homeland for Ulysses, beyond the lies and everything else, and a second chance, a new way of thinking out of the Legion. Ulysses continued to walk the wastes, exploring the wastelands for Caesar. Ulysses even witnessed Caesar's punishment of Joshua Graham following the Legion defeat at the First Battle of Hoover Dam, cementing that Caesar would have this dam at any cost. Ulysses however, believed Hoover Dam might kill Caesar, regardless of whether he won or lost. ![]() This Old-World symbol became an object of obsession for Caesar, a great symbol to focus his people on. Returning across the Colorado River, Ulysses went back to Caesar and spoke with him about Hoover Dam and the impeding republic. In 2274 after the NCR reached Hoover Dam, Ulysses crossed the Colorado and was the first among the Legion to see both the Dam and the NCR - a nation great enough to challenge Caesar himself. Caesar told him to kill no other member of this profession since, in fact, many couriers were spies for the Legion as well. Thanks to his ability and his forceful personality, he quickly became an important, indispensable frumentarius of the Caesar's Legion, walking the wastes as a nondescript and unnoticeable courier. Grant, "the man who fought during a time of two flags, and he had to make them one". ![]() This is when he took his moniker of "Ulysses," alluding to Ulysses S. ![]() Vulpes Inculta's pacification of Dry Wells was a particularly painful moment for Ulysses, though his dedication to Caesar and the flag of the Bull prevented his desertion. Their tribal identity was erased and those who resisted were crucified along the sides of Interstate 40. However, once the Legion's campaign ended in Arizona, Caesar promptly rewarded their aid by breaking the alliance and betraying them the Twisted Hairs were conquered and enslaved just as he had done to all the other tribes of Arizona. His scouting ability was supplemented by his ability to live off the land, having acute knowledge of herbal remedies and medicines. Ulysses was one of the most successful scouts in the Twisted Hairs, traveling vast distances in search of the enemies of both his and Caesar's tribes. Ulysses was once a member of the Twisted Hairs, a powerful tribe in Arizona that forged an alliance with the fledgling Caesar's Legion in 2247, and became its main scouting force during the conquest of Arizona. Now, he longs for crippling both the Legion and the NCR's war efforts, seeing both their ideals and campaigns of expansion as the wrong answers to mankind's future, and to finally settle his old score with the Courier. These events have made Ulysses obsessed with history and symbols and especially how individuals can impact the former and effectively become the latter. His worldview has mainly been formed by two traumatic events in his past: the loss of his old home to Caesar's Legion and the loss of his new home to the Courier and the New California Republic. ![]() 3 Interactions with the player characterĪn experienced warrior and scout, Ulysses is a crafty, resourceful, and dangerously intelligent man, who is capable of surviving even in the most hostile and inhospitable of terrains.
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