The White Legs killed all without mercy, including the elderly, ill and children. Few managed to flee the city into the surrounding countryside. Under Ulysses' leadership, the White Legs blitzed the city, before its denizens could mount an effective defense. They waited until Graham and the bulk of the city's defenders were away, before attacking under cover of night. Thus strengthened, the White Legs started raids throughout former Utah and parts of Nevada for Caesar's Legion, killing all who they came across. Under Ulysses, the White Legs learned new combat skills and gained new weapons, recovered from Old World and New Canaan caches. Their real goal was the assassination of Joshua Graham. New Canaan was just collateral damage, of course. In return for the destruction of New Canaan and the death of all of its inhabitants, the White Legs would be inducted into the Legion. That is when the Legion's emissary, Ulysses, arrived. Unable to develop skills that would allow them to settle and unable to take cities with their primitive arsenals and skills, the White Legs were poised to die out within a generation, imploding as a result of their success.
The increased territory and numbers presented a problem, as the White Legs found themselves unable to sustain themselves through just raiding. The situation got so bad that the route was entirely abandoned, culminating in the destruction of bridges over Virgin River that sealed that region as White Legs' territory.
The emboldened White Legs, normally raiding northeast of Caliente, pounced on the I-15 and traffic passing through it northwards. By 2277, the Rangers were completely integrated into the NCR Rangers and abandoned frontier outposts. They were usually kept at bay thanks to New Canaanites and the Desert Rangers, until the latter were absorbed into the NCR in 2271. They have been particularly bitter enemies with New Canaan for decades, fighting them for supplies and territory. However, they are exceptionally adept at war and taking by force, alienating them from other inhabitants of the wasteland, especially tribes in regions around the Great Salt Lake near the ruins of Salt Lake City, where their primary camps are normally located. As a result, they lack many survival skills considered essential, including food preservation, tanning, even basic hunting and cooking. What they cannot obtain by salvaging, they obtain by raiding other tribes and communities. Having emerged in the desolate environment of the Great Salt Lake, the White Legs have traditionally painted themselves white to blend into their homeland, and have learned to survive as master scavengers. Descended from the survivors of the Great War from the desolate region around Salt Lake City, the White Legs are a tribe formed out of a broad cross-section of Americans of different ethnic backgrounds, including Native American and various European ethnicities, from pre-War tourists trapped in post-nuclear North America.
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