Quote Originally Posted by Ray View Post
There's the fact that they have Boulder too though. Any mention of 150k or so people that are completely safe and well cared for, I'm betting the Colony residents would turn on the Mallers at the drop of a hat. Especially if the military guys didn't force them into coming with them. All they'd have to say is "stay here and fight us, or go to Boulder where it's safe and we'll take you there." Take it or leave it, I'm betting most would take that in a heartbeat.
This is where the inevitable brainwashing comes in, the people at the Colony seem to believe whatever anyone who comes into power there says (which makes sense if yo think about it.) I'm sure the Mallers could convince the people at the Colony that the military was just going to kill them, regardless if they fought for the Colony, or not; and the Colony's population would believe it. Yeah some people might escape and realize that what the Mallers told all of them was nothing but lies, but I could only see a few people doing this.

And it would be pretty simple really, The Mallers/Colony would just have to defend themselves from the squads of soldiers. And at most all they would have to do is takeout the personnel at the fort, remember when contact with the other forts and bases were lost they didn't bother trying to find out what might have happened. This wouldn't be the case for Fort Irwin obviously, but if the Mallers/Colony were able to take over the base they could easily kill takeout any military forces sent from Boulder City, after all there are hundreds of thousands of people there that need to be protected. I think that they would just give up on the fort after the 1st plane of reinforcements never came back.

BTW, I don't think any of this will actually happen. I'm just speculating on could happen.