This is an official Public Service Announcement concerning the recent statement of the Vault City officials. NCRA Captain Darlain is about to answer those allegations:
This is false. NCR has no deal with VC, no protection program, no secret arrangements, and sure as shit no neutrality (when has neutrality ever worked ?).
People with a brain can already enter and shop in Shady Sands. It doesnt protect you from your next of kin town burster or thief however.
In all honesty, the NCRA and NCR government doesnt take kindly to those hermits back in Vault City. McClure never helped any town nearby, Randal is selling a ''cleaning bot'' that steal your precious belongings and bring it to the nearest VC Depot, Most shopkeepers are owned by one single person trying to have a monopoly of independant shopkeepers. But i think the straw that broke the brahmin's back is : if you're an outsider wishing to live in VC, you can take on the job of a ''servant'' (pretty word for slave).
What this man is selling you is a lie, sending you on a fool's errand to protect their caravans, that they cant protect on their own. Send you out to gather precious medecine, that they will confiscate for the ''benefit'' of the vault's resident, or send you on a ''research expedition'' ,such as gecko's reactor to ''research'' the effect of radiation on the human body. Nothing short of mercenary work i say !
Be smart, be proactive... be NCR . And pay your god damn taxes citizens !
NCRA Captain Darlain. This message is approved my President Knight Shift