User:Rob.keefe1

"I need a new start, there are too many people who want me dead for me to ever possibly live humbly here." -Rob to Sarah Lions before leaving the Capital Wasteland to the Mojave

History
Rob was born on July 13, 2258 to James and Catherine at the Jefferson Memorial, where they worked on Project Purity. Catherine died shortly after giving birth, due to cardiac arrest of an unknown cause. James suspended the project and traveled to Vault 101 via Megaton (with the help of Star Paladin Cross). The Lone Wanderer's childhood is kept a secret in order to shelter the child from the outside world, and to keep up the pretense of the social experiment for which the Vault was constructed. For 19 years, Rob lived in Vault 101 without incident, but in 2277, 200 years after the Great War, James disappeared without any explanation. Young Rob, with the help of Amata Almodovar, left the safety of the Vault to look for James in the ruins of Washington, D.C.. In order to find him, Rob traveled across the wasteland following James' trail. Rob visited all of the locations that James had visited and either searched for clues or spoke to the people he encountered to find out where he went next. After finding him, Project Purity was put back on track, but the reunion is cut short when the Enclave commander Augustus Autumn arrived and demanded ownership of the Project. James was unwilling to allow the project to fall into the hands of the Enclave and sacrificed himself by filling the control chamber of Project Purity with deadly amounts of radiation, in hopes to kill Colonel Autumn and the other soldiers. Colonel Autumn, however, survived. The Enclave took control of the project, but were unable to operate it.

After fleeing from the Jefferson Memorial building with the remainder of Project Purity staff, Rob took refuge within the Citadel where he enlisted the help of the Brotherhood of Steel to retrieve a G.E.C.K. from Vault 87 for use in a soon-to-be-recaptured Project Purity. Because the G.E.C.K. was in a highly irradiated chamber, Rob enlisted the help of Fawkes, a friendly super mutant to retrieve it. Once the G.E.C.K. was retrieved, Rob was captured by Colonel Autumn and taken to Raven Rock. There, President Eden presented him with a canister of modified FEV for insertion into Project Purity, which would poison any mutated creature drinking the purified water. On the way out of the president's chamber, Rob threw the canister on the ground and stepped on it. Raven Rock was destroyed and Project Purity was recaptured with the aid of Liberty Prime. There, after finally stopping Colonel Autumn, Rob and Sentinel Lyons were faced with the dilemma of who would enter the radiation-flooded chamber and activate the project. After drawing straws, Rob went in and punched in the code to start the purifier, and made it out before the radiation did any damage other than mild nausea. Upon exiting the memorial, he said goodbye to the Capital Wasteland forever and headed west.

He traveled west on foot for 3 years before ending up in the Mojave Wasteland delivering packages for the Mojave Express. Rob lived humbly as he always wanted to for almost 2 years. He was contracted to deliver a strange package containing a platinum poker chip by Mr. House, the self proclaimed king of the New Vegas strip. Upon arriving at Goodsprings, Rob was greeted by a well dressed man with a few Great Khan body gaurds. He was disarmed and shot in the head twice by the well dressed man, Benny. He woke up a week later in the home of Doc Mitchell, the local medicine man strangely with no repercussions. He was last seen traveling the I15 in search of the men who shot him.