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How Does the NCR Manufacture Their Armor?
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It's two hundred years from the war, it would be really hard to salvage steel with it being exposed fot this long.
They probably started with scavenging but moved to mining it. Even depleted mines usually contain enough material it's just can't be used due to small volume, but when your whole nation is 1-2 million people it will work.
They can make fabrics from whool, or nettle or any native local plant.
Somehow I hadn't considred steel degradation, though I suppose it makes sense. I assumed salvage would be a good pathway since a lot of the work extracting it from the Earth is done for you, but I am absolutely in love with the idea of the NCR bringing old mines back into operation, I must admit.