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18 part dialogue scene
🕑 Added 2025-05-02 11:19:21 +0000 UTCThis is a summary of the dialogue at NCR headquarters.
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NCR Headquarters
Officer:
'rushing toward the main officer coming out of the barracks'
Major, Charlie Company has just arrived.
Main Officer:
What's the casualty report?
Officer:
21 KIA, 25 wounded, 5 missing in action.
Main Officer:
Prepare the remaining personnel to be reassigned to other companies for redeployment.
Officer:
Understood.
'hesitating'
Sir, how long are we going to keep grinding ourselves down like this? Our troops are exhausted.
Main Officer:
Reinforcements are on their way. Once they arrive, we're launching a full-scale assault.
Colonel Moore is being cautious because we lost most of our anti-tank weaponry.
Officer:
I heard we suffered heavy losses during the last offensive—not just the anti-tank units, but entire battalions.
Main Officer:
That's right. Some companies were completely wiped out.
The objective this time was to reclaim Helios One using troops personally trained by Colonel Moore.
Losing our anti-tank arsenal—and needing outside reinforcements—must have made she furious.
(Their gaze shifts to the Rangers, who are maintaining their weapons or crafting special rounds.)
Main Officer:
In any case, the assault will begin soon. Make sure everything is ready.
Officer:
Yes, sir.
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The character I have in mind is a veteran Ranger Leader brought in by Colonel Moore, who serves as something of a mentor figure to her. Since he is a ghoul, he was actually her instructor back when Colonel Moore was undergoing Ranger training in her younger days.
He is not a member of Colonel Moore’s direct unit, but had been temporarily accompanying her in an advisory role for a large-scale operation. However, when the situation took a sudden turn for the worse, he joined the battle at Colonel Moore’s request.
I came up with this backstory to help tie together the events leading up to and following the Sunburst Operation I'm creating. However, I'm a bit disappointed that it's too much to convey through dialogue alone, so I don't plan on including it directly in the script.
Comments
Carlos Jose Vasquez
Good notes on the ranger Vet story being held back for now. Dialogue is solid and doesn’t need no change as other comments have suggested as the Sentry bot is basically a micro-tank due to it being heavier than a brigade of Power-Armored Infantry
Yukinu
Looking forward to seeing how you incorporate the Vet. Ranger’s story into this. I know a concern of yours is excessive dialogue; you’re an action guy after all.
