One Pine

One Pine is a small town located on a basin close to Vault 13.

It was built upon the remains of Lone Pine, California, which was relatively untouched by the Great War.

Beginnings
After the war, many residents who left Vault 15 in the Split came across an abandoned country town named Lone Pine.

A few of them settled in the town, eventually setting up trade routes with Shady Sands.

The town was renamed "One Pine" after the L on the "Lone Pine" sign rusted and fell off.

Eventually, more people came to the town and settled down, establishing farms, mines, markets, clinics and homes.

Immigration
After the outbreak of the NCR-Legion War, many citizens of small towns in the Mojave emigrated en masse to New California, and One Pine had cheap housing, friendly people and a bright future.

Many of these young people arrived at the town who found that they could not handle farm work or mining, and left the town, instead going for futures in politics or the military.

Due to the immigration, the town has a very distinctive 'cowboy' theme.

Intelligent Deathclaw Trading
After the Intelligent Deathclaws re-inhabited Vault 13, they began to open up to the outside world, the closest town of which was One Pine.

The Intelligent Deathclaws peacefully came to the town to trade, and have done so ever since.

As a result, the town has boomed, the economy has grown massively, and many young people aspiring jobs have immigrated into the town for honest work.

Conflict
Although the Intelligent Deathclaws have given the town a nice boost, many older citizens of the town cannot trust the Deathclaws, fearing that they will one day kill everyone in the town. Some have been very discriminatory towards the Deathclaws, refusing to trade with them or heal them.

A small minority of these people wish to rise up against the Deathclaws and kill them before "they kill us", but the group is growing, and the town is being divided into the Anti-Deathclaw Conspiracy and Intelligent Deathclaw Supporters.

Military
One Pine is an important military location for the NCR, as many troopers and rangers come from the town.

The town has a very pro-military point of view, and children usually join the military as a rite-of-passage.

After Jeremy Watson received the Star of Sierra Madre, more people in the town were inspired to join the military.

As a consequence of this ideology, many teenagers are pressured by their parents to join the military, regardless of whether they want to or not.

Appearances
One Pine appears in Project Peru, but was mentioned in New Vegas.