What very few people know is that without that mission my knowledge of the Roman Empire would be…rudimentary. Obviously that was the turning point of my transition from Edward to Caesar, but without that expedition and the discovery of the life-changing cache of books it presented me with, I believe things would have taken a different route but ultimately come to the same conclusion.

Would I have stayed with the Followers? Hardly. I am positive that in time they would have become too grating with their do-good attitude and naive ideals. A life of researching tribal dialects would be, I think, a life wasted for someone such as myself.

A career in the NCR on the other hand would be insulting from my current standpoint. Perhaps a younger me would think differently but I feel that I have always harboured the view that they represent all that was corrupt in the old world. Taking them down from the inside as the traitor Hanlon does (and by the way that is interesting to know) would simply be a way of making an unsatisfying life more tolerable. There is no good he can do, the NCR is too vast and widespread for one man on the inside to cause anything more than a slight sickness for the bear from which it will eventually recover.

Some of us are born to lead and some to follow and I am the former. Had the expedition that changed history not occurred then I am positive that there would have been a turning point somewhere else along the line. It stands to reason that an unchallenged, greedy and corrupt power such as the NCR be risen-up against, opposed and ultimately defeated one way or another.