What if House Won at The End of New Vegas

The wind off Lake Mead still carries the smell of burning insulation when a courier stands at the intake tower with a single sheet of heavy bond paper in his pocket, and that paper decides the fate of an entire desert. What follows the fall of Hoover Dam is not a war but an accounting, as Mr. House turns General Oliver's surrender into an invoice, prices the Colorado at five caps a gallon, and lets the NCR discover what happens when the water simply stops flowing. Told through the eyes of a courier who watches Securitrons clear Freeside, the Kings, and Westside without ever raising their voices, the story traces how the Strip becomes a factory floor, how the Boomers and Nellis become the roof over a locked door, and how California starves in the dark while the Legion eats itself alive across the river. It is a cold, methodical portrait of what victory looks like when a machine holds the ledger and every card dealt is already counted. If you have ever wondered how the Mojave would have looked under House's hand, this is that reckoning, laid out piece by piece. Tell us in the comments whether you think the desert was better off under the man who never showed his face.