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About this mod
Desert Empire Company Goods is a redux of my original Whiskey Smoke mod, greatly simplified and works for both pre and post Next Gen. Crafting of alcohols, smokables, and more but also a settlement farming mod to help obtain the materials needed. No longer requires Desperados Overhaul, and works with all landscapes.
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Welcome, Investor, to the Desert Empire Company, a long closed pre-war business from New Vegas. Will you revivify this once great organization and craft and trade in high quality Label products for a nice profit? Perhaps you may become the new Desert Empire Company Chair. The last one died on October 23, 2077. He won't mind and there's no need for a vote.
- v1.0 Released: this is a redux of my original mod, Whiskey Smoke, still available on its mod page, but greatly simplified and now provides for wild crop farming by your settlers. The main point of the mod is for you to craft new goods in the cook and chem benches, and secondarily to have your settlers help you obtain the ingredients by farming them for you. This is not a quest mod, but it does provide a wee bit of homemade lore, and two new perks when you find the books.
- v1.1 Released: solves some things I spent far too long on to begin with, adds two new recipes, removes some req'd mods.
- Commonwealth Moonshiners patch to move DEC's alcohols to the Moonshiner's still.
Desert Empire Company, LLC, A New Vegas Pre-War Enterprise
The Desert Empire Company was first founded by Guise Lilo Malone in September 1945, just a short month after that great war ended. He was an immigrant who served in America's army, and he found new friends in Europe of the kind you might be thinking. Together, the members of that fledgling organization, the Desert Empire Company, set up shop in a warehouse in New Vegas. The adjacent farmland was also purchased because of the now ready-irrigation by way of the new Dam ("purchased" in the way you might think).
Though DEC did start with tobacco and producing whiskey, that wasn't the entire perspective of their work. These ruthless folks earned money by forcing changes in the local crime gang businesses, if you take my meaning. Fast forward to mid-decade of 2060 . . . and this strong local company had been unbreakably stable for decades. Their members intended to expand to Chicago, New York, Miami, and Boston by way of offers from smart businessmen in those cities. You know, to offer them a chance at investing. For their own good, of course.
As the day of the last Great War was closing, one of those new members from Boston suddenly changed his mind for other strange new interests, and the company's initial assets in Boston were lost or stolen. The Desert Empire Company was very unhappy with that Boston businessman. Despite New Vegas being spared nukes, the Desert Empire Company LLC on Sunset Boulevard was left a ruin due to post-Armageddon inter-factional warfare, and all of its members and employees are dead.
This mod will help you, the aspiring businessperson of the Commonwealth, to engage in the growing, manufacture, and high-end sale of your products, which are specialty cigars and whiskey. How far you go will depend on your business acumen and tenacity? Are you just some Commonwealth farmer without a lick of sense or are you a daring businessperson, perhaps even cut-throat-hard and intent on ruthless expansion?
Maybe that ruthlessness will make you the next Desert Empire Company Chair.
Wicked Shipping appears to be mentioned in some of the lore of the Desert Empire Company, but in 210 years who knows who might have looted the stuff from there? Maybe the neighbors might have some of it. Have you met the neighbors? They're nice people with a dirt farm, a cow, and a cat. Maybe ask the farmer's wife to trade? Who knows what you might find?
Why, Dear Lord Why?
Because you are the kind of player that makes your own RP stories and your own plans and your own playthrough style based on mods, and you certainly craft your own luck like a mad-person. You have plenty of other quests and mod quests to engage in while your settlers tend to your crops, and they are there to protect them against raiders, Gunners, beasts while you're doing them. However, when you return to the homestead you have work to do there now too to ensure your fledgling business stays afloat and can expand. Caps, baby, caps.
Where Do You Come In?
Whether you are the last remaining survivor of a doomed vault or some random wastelander who walked up over the hills north of Sanctuary, you're not the Commonwealth kind of wastelander. By some circumstance unrelated to any quest whatsoever, you will happen upon some burnt book from a local farmer's wife in trade. Those books are Desert Empire Company promotional assets originally containing information on the business plan and knowledge of how to make a good start of growing tobacco and rye for the purposes of selling specialty cigars and whiskey. These books were clearly written in a way you know they were meant only for one person. With them you will be able to take full advantage of this mod. Will you be as ruthless and smart as the Desert Empire Company members expected of the original recipient?
Those two books provide good perks too, savvy?
Suggested Mods
I put all of my suggested mods into Desert: Modlist. Check it out.
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