New California has been trumped at Hoover Dam. New Vegas, and the Mojave, are now out of the NCR's reach. Nearly three decades of soft occupation stamped out by the actions of a single mailwoman. The leaders of the Mojave campaign have been found either dead, or out of a job. Former president Kimball has retired to run a peanut farm, Chief Ranger Hanlon now serves on the NCR Senate, with a presidential bid in sight, while General Oliver was found dead in his home with 4 separate gunshot wounds, and ruled a suicide. The homefront is bursting at the seams, almost ready to crack under the strain of losing the Mojave after so much effort. But the homefront seems so far away.
Earlier this year, the region surrounding Portland created and signed a petition to bring the region under NCR rule. The standard practice for expansion the NCR typically operates under. Not knowing any better, the NCR accepted the petition and sent what they thought was an appropriate number of forces to police the region. Instead, they stepped upon a veritable anthill of raiders, slavers, miscreants and remnants of the Master's Army. Portland had very quickly become the new Mojave, and General Moore, now the highest ranking officer in the NCR Army, does not wish for such a petition to snowball into 30 years of pointless occupation. With the war against the Legion still taking the brunt of the NCR forces. So the reinfoircements headed to ensure the Portland region is secure, are far from the cream of the crop.
It is now October 23, 2283. 206 years to the day that humanity's next bloody chapter was opened. For you a member of the 63rd Battalion of the NCR Army, the front is the fine line between dying for a fracturing country, or deserting. War for you is an internal struggle, as well as an external one. Because War...War Never Changes.