Ignacio Rivas

Ignacio Rivas is a Followers of the Apocalypse scientist living at Helios One in Fallout: New Vegas. He tends to the management of HELIOS One alongside the NCR.

Background
Rivas is member of the Followers of the Apocalypse and has been working with the NCR on getting Helios One working for years since the NCR had taken control of Helios One from the Brotherhood of Steel during Operation Sunburst. Under the guise of researching in potential for solar energy, Rivas was sent to Helios by the Followers in order to investigate Helios' connection with the pre-war company Poseidon Energy, and its business outside of alternative energy. Despite the relationship of the Followers with the NCR, the NCR allowed Rivas to stay in order to gain as much information about Helios One as possible, but Rivas has been deliberately keeping them in the dark to conceal the existence of Archimedes II from them. However, the NCR hired an additional technician, Fantastic, to help in the repair of Helios. Luckily for Rivas, Fantastic turned out to be a completely incompetent scoundrel who conned his way into the position and so far hasn't made any discoveries on Helios One's true purpose, much less getting anything at the plant to actually work, and Rivas is not planning on correcting any of that any time soon.

From his time at Helios, Rivas had learned that Helios was affiliated with the United States military in some way and holds the key to a secret orbital laser, Archimedes II still in orbit around Earth and still operational. However, Rivas is concerned what would happen if either of the warring factions (the NCR or Caesar's Legion in particular) happened to learn how to utilize Helios One's technology. Personally, he hopes for a win-win scenario for the Followers where the energy is diverted equally across the region and not to Archimedes II. For now, Rivas keeps watch of the plant, making sure the dangers are minimized.

Quests

 * ED-E My Love: Talking about technology with Rivas when ED-E is in your party will trigger its second audio log.
 * That Lucky Old Sun: Rivas will give you password you need to access the reflector mainframe and, depending on if the player gained the trust of him or not, will reward the player with items after the quest is finished. If the player has not earned his trust, he will not reward anything to the player no matter the option picked.

Other interactions

 * If the Courier is male, you can flirt with him if you have the Confirmed Bachelor perk.
 * The Courier can inform Ignacio of any faction they're affiliated with, such as if the Courier completed Eyesight to the Blind and is a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, the player can mention it to Ignacio who will be relieved to have you there to help, or can mention they're with Caesar's Legion and will refuse to talk to the player from there on.
 * When speaking to Ignacio with Intelligence 3 or lower, the player has unique topics such as: "Me help shoulders make shinies warm", "Who are Flowers of Pock-lips?" and "Do Flowers and NCR Bear play together?" It's also possible to respond with "pizza" and "warm" instead of "peace" and "war" when he asked.

Appearances
Ignacio Rivas appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.