Hey there! I'm playing on my DiD Enclave Scientist Talos at the moment. I just got to Helios One and i'm having a problem here. The plan from the start was to take Helios for myself (get Archimedes) but when you do that you'll kill of all the NCR troops close by? My character is trying to weaken the big factions and keep it balanced, the problem here is with Helios One. If i follow through with the plan of taking Archimedes it would kill all the NCR close by and give Legion and option to take over the area, which would be one of the worst case scenario. Talos is using NCR to keep the Legion at bay, so it would backfire on him if he killed all the NCR at helios. The other option would be to give the electricity to the entire Mojave and this way everyone gets a little bit of the cake and NCR doesn't get the upper hand.

So what should i do? Follow my original plan or change it? And is it possible to get hold of Archimedes without killing the NCR?

1.) Take helios for myself, kill the NCR and face the consequences of Legion invading.
2.) Distribute the power to the entire wasteland and this way it wouldn't tip the scales in anyones favor?

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Yes, but you only have this chance when you first bring the power plant online, you can enable the weapon as part of the power distribution and no one is the wiser. Once you enable the power plant, you have to attack the NCR to bring the weapon online.