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Ashton is a city in the Divide in 2281.

Background[]

Along with its neighbor Hopeville, Ashton was home to several United States Armed Forces nuclear missile bases and silos. In 2077, along with the rest of the world, it burned in nuclear fire. Although the Ashton area was a major part of the ballistic defense matrix, the missiles raining down on the city must have caught the soldiers there by surprise, as the ICBMs never left their silos.

Close to two centuries later, a small survivalist community emerged near the ruins of Ashton and Hopeville. Though small at first, a single courier was willing to travel the hard road to and from the community.[1] Named the Divide, it was a community of hardy folk, building a new future using the Old World as foundation.[2] It was a new nation, slowly stirring to life, forging new ideals to apply to the new world they were placed in.[3]

The community was located along a road that served as a connection to the Mojave Wasteland, and the New California Republic began to traverse it, establishing a new supply line to the region and to the Hoover Dam.[4] This drew the attention of Caesar's Legion, which attempted to cut the new connection.[5]

Any skirmishes did not destroy the settlement, however. It was the work of the courier who, returning to the Divide again, carried a package from Navarro by order of the NCR. This package contained the activated ICBM launch codes,[6][Non-game 1] and when the package was close enough, it sent a signal to the dormant nuclear missiles, causing them to begin detonating one after another, splitting the earth, cracking and twisting the landscape, and causing massive earthquakes. This turned Ashton into what it is now.

Layout[]

Ashton is now a wreck of the skeletons of buildings and camps of marked men who have survived the brutality of the Divide. Many ruined elevated highways have collapsed and numerous cars litter the area.

Locations[]

Appearances[]

Ashton appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

Behind the scenes[]

The real world town of Ashton was a water stop on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, located in Nye County near Death Valley and the California/Nevada state line. Almost nothing of town or railroad remains today.

References[]

  1. Ulysses: "Never would have known the Divide had it not been for you. The road you made with your tracks, again and again. You were the only one willing to make the journey to and from here... a hard road. Kept the land before the Divide alive through seasons, storms......can't have been just a job. Was something more to you. Don't feel for a place that hard unless it's home."
    (Ulysses' dialogue)
  2. The Courier: "This road leads nowhere. There's nothing in the Divide."
    Ulysses: "Many in the Mojave think the Divide's nothing but canyon and storm. Wasn't always. There was life, a town, farther West... not talking about an Old World town like Hopeville... more recent. Something you saw in your lifetime. It had the name "the Divide," too. But rather than cracks in the earth, it was a road from the West into the Mojave, a supply line. Took a Courier to make that road. You. Back then, you saw the road with eyes facing East. This time... the Divide's in the other direction. And if your eyes try to make sense of it when you reach it... home's not what it was."
    The Courier: "If you blame me for what happened here at the Divide - why do you care?"
    Ulysses: "The community that was once here... and the package you brought... both had markings of the Divide. Markings of America. You've seen the marks, the symbol. As early as the Hopeville silo, maybe. Carried it etched on your weapons. The Divide, its buildings, its people, were built around those same markings, surrounded them here... ...markings like the flag on my back. When I followed your road to the Divide those years ago, I saw the symbol I wore all around me. An Old World symbol. Strong, to survive here - its people, strong. Outlast the Bear, outlast the Bull. Promise of something better. Caesar was right to want it dead. NCR was right to want to rake their claws in it. Seeing it... changed me, just as seeing Hoover Dam changed Caesar and the NCR. Seeing it end changed me, too."
    (Ulysses' dialogue)
  3. The Courier: "So you believed in this place. What it once was."
    Ulysses: "There was hope here, another chance. A new nation, stirring to life. A place I could have set my flag. Not the America of old. But something larger than the tribes of the East, something larger than the houses of the West. Something better. The Divide... could have bridged both, like Hoover Dam. Now like the Dam, it's too covered in blood to see what it could have been. You gave life to this place. I followed your road here, saw the Divide. You led me here, so that I could see. Then, you brought it to an end."
    (Ulysses' dialogue)
  4. The Courier: "[Legion] The Legion would want to cut this road off if it had been a supply line to Hoover Dam."
    Ulysses: "The Dam. That Old World Wall."
    (Ulysses' dialogue)
  5. The Courier: "[NCR] NCR would have needed this supply line open to reinforce the Mojave - and Hoover Dam."
    Ulysses: "The Dam. That Old World Wall."
    (Ulysses' dialogue)
  6. The Courier: "What happened here?"
    Ulysses: "You delivered a package. Had markings that matched those in the Divide. Not all... but enough. Military markings, from some place the Bear had savaged in the West. Maybe seeing those markings on it reminded you of home... made you carry it."
    (Ulysses' dialogue)

Non-game

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