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| “ | Leave the fear behind. Meet at the mountaintop! Enjoy life in a state of Utobitha - Free, safe, secure! | „ |
| ~ Tabitha advertising the State of Utobitha on Black Mountain Radio. |
The State of Utobitha are supporting antagonists and a city-state in Fallout: New Vegas, serving as the main antagonists of the quest "Crazy, Crazy, Crazy".
They were an isolated, xenophobic community of Super Mutants who resided in the irradiated ruins of Black Mountain. Their leader, Tabitha, who overthrew the previous mayor Marcus, maintained a policy of attacking all who dare enter their territory unless they're mutantkind. This lead to Marcus and his right-hand man Neil (both of whom are significantly friendlier and more intelligent than younger mutants, including Tabitha) leaving along with a few loyalists to form a new settlement that aimed to reestablish peaceful co-existence with other species. Later, Marcus sent Neil to spy on Black Mountain. A wanderer named the Courier passed by and met Neil. They then went on to play a crucial role in determining the fate of Black Mountain.
Fallout: New Vegas[]
Founding[]
In 2161, a mutated being known as The Master that sought to wipe out humankind and establish the Super Mutant master race was defeated and killed by a hero called the Vault Dweller. His vast mutant army, the Unity, began to crumble without leadership, and many disheartened veterans headed east in an attempt to find purpose and a place to call home. Despite various threats to their species, such as genocide campaigns launched by the Enclave, war with the New California Republic, and general racist beliefs held against them by humans, mutantkind continued to survive in the harsh wastelands and built safe societies where mutants could thrive and prosper. More than 80 years later, one particular settlement, Broken Hills, moved to the Mojave Wasteland after it's supplies ran out. Led by a mutant named Marcus, they wandered the vast desert to Nevada until they found Black Mountain, a group of abandoned hills that were perfect to call home due to their steep, easily defendable position which could make warding off predators such as the nearby Deathclaws easy, high levels of radiation which they were biologically immune to but could harm intruders that lacked such invulnerability, and a satellite dish which they could use to broadcast invitations for nomadic mutants to join their community. Eventually, they fixed the radio equipment and began calling on lonely, grieving Unity veterans to come live with them. The nearby Brotherhood of Steel chapter, who's ideology was to confiscate and preserve pre-War technology as well as racism and open hostility toward non-human creatures, left the mutants alone out of pure respect and a hope to establish a neighborly relationship. The new community attracted thousands, even as far as Arizona, and mutants finally found somewhere to call home.
Despite Black Mountain prospering under the leadership of Marcus, who's goal was to create peaceful co-existence with humans as it was in Broken Hills, a mutant subspecies known as the Nightkin began migrating to the area, along with younger mutants who lacked the intelligence and docility of the original mutant settlers. Due to their bloodthirstiness and rudeness, a cold civil war broke out amongst the community, and in the year 2279, a Nightkin named Tabitha took over Black Mountain. After banishing Marcus (who sabotaged the broadcasting equipment before leaving), his friend Neil, and every mutant who sided with them, Tabitha quickly destroyed all of Marcus' hard work in establishing peace with humans and enforced hostile policies which were to kill all humans and other non-mutant lifeforms (except centaurs, which were kept as pets) who entered the area. She also broke the community's relationship with the Brotherhood of Steel, killing several paladins and hiding their bodies. This new community relied on attacking passing travelers and merchants for supplies. With all of the first generation settlers gone and replaced by dumber, hostile mutants, the State of Utobitha was born.
Conflict with Jacobstown and collapse/new beginning[]
Betrayed and left with no home and little supplies, Marcus and his loyalists headed north until they found Mount Charleston, which had an old pre-War resort in the middle of it, surrounded by forest which had plenty of bighorners to provide food. They settled into the area, renaming it Jacobstown (after a Brotherhood of Steel paladin whom Marcus was best friends with) and began rebuilding what was lost. Despite their recent grievances, the mutants maintained peace with humans, and even let a few Nightkin move in, though the latter was subject to heavy surveillance and regulation. In 2281, Marcus sent Neil to spy on Utobitha. He used an old shed as a makeshift shack when not carrying out his duties. Despite him being an outcast from the settlement, he was allowed to come and go as he pleased due to his mutant status, although many in the community looked down on him for being a loyalist.
That same year, a wanderer known as the Courier arrived at Black Mountain. They met Neil, who warned them of the dangers they would face if they were to proceed up the mountain. Passing a Speech check of 50, the Courier managed to convince Neil to let them assist him in destroying Tabitha's dictatorial regime. Alternatively, they either snuck up the mountain through Scorpion Gulch and a hard locked gate, or through a rocky, unstable slope. After fighting or sneaking their way up the mountain, they met Neil near the summit, who distracted a group of Nightkin to allow the Courier to pass. They then confront Tabitha, either killing her, redeeming her by fixing her robot, Rhonda, or rescuing a captive named Raul, causing Tabitha to attack them. If Tabitha dies, the mutant population fades without leadership, ending the State of Utobitha and Black Mountain's time as a settlement for mutants to prosper and live together. If Rhonda was repaired and reunited with Tabitha, Utobitha continues to live on, but reverts back to the friendly, neighborly and non-xenophobic ways of the original community. Either way, Neil promised to redirect migrating mutants and Nightkin to Jacobstown, though some refused his advice and began resettling/joining the community.
In a different turn of events, the Courier ignored the war at Black Mountain, and the conflict between the two mutant communities continued indefinitely.
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External link[]
- State of Utobitha at Nukapedia (Fallout Wiki)
