Fantastic

Fantastic is a Californian technician who is working at HELIOS One for the New California Republic in Fallout: New Vegas. It is obvious, however, that his technical expertise is severely lacking.

Background
Fantastic is an immature, egotistical con artist who was recruited by the NCR because they required technical experts to work on the HELIOS One power plant. When asked, he claimed to know as much about solar power as anyone he knew, and also boasted a "theoretical degree" in physics. Miraculously, this was enough to fool the NCR recruiters and he was given the position.

Since arriving at Helios One, Fantastic, through his incompetence and full of himself attitude, has done nothing to repair Helios One. However, he's been instilling the belief that he's essential to the operations at Helios One in order to keep from being fired and to gain as much money from the NCR as possible to fuel his chem addiction. Though a few have seen through his lies for the idiot he really is.

Even though Fantastic has accomplished very little in his time at Helios, he has properly identified a couple of problems that he has yet to fix, like the outside mirrors being aligned improperly. For months he has been working on a single console, assuming that the biggest console is the most important, which, unbeknownst to him, is the console for the Helios' intercom system.

If told that he doesn't know what he's doing, Fantastic disagrees and insists that he knows exactly what he's doing, he just doesn't know what effect it has. When asked to elaborate on his working environment, his explanation starts promisingly enough - "That console there controls the main power grid." - but soon degenerates, ending with "That slot over there makes sparks when you put stuff in it."

His fellow technician Ignacio Rivas has been purposely keeping Fantastic, and by extension the NCR, in the dark in order to keep Fantastic from knowing as much about Helios One as possible and to keep him from learning about ARCHIMEDES II.

Quests

 * That Lucky Old Sun: The player has to confront Fantastic for the beginning of the quest.

Effects of the player's actions

 * If Archimedes II is activated, Fantastic will be irate with the player because they "killed his paycheck."
 * If the player chooses to kill the NCR in That Lucky Old Sun and leave Fantastic alive, upon returning they will find that Fantastic will be wearing Legion armor and will have killed Ignacio Rivas. If they then talk to him he will say "Hey man, when in Rome".
 * Alternatively, if the player chooses to side with the NCR, Fantastic can be found at Hoover Dam. He gets a promotion to the position of "God Damn Dam God" in his own words.

Other interactions

 * When first meeting Fantastic the player can state he's here to replace him. Fantastic gets worried and tells the player that he needs this job for his chem addiction, and with a speech check of 25 the player can get 100 caps from Fantastic for not taking his job.
 * If killed after completing That Lucky Old Sun, an NCR guard will remark "Maybe that guy Fantastic wasn't an idiot, maybe he was a genius," when exiting the facility. Note: This does not make the NCR hostile towards you, nor does it affect NCR reputation.

Appearances
Fantastic appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.