1. No
2. No
3. Possible, next time Tox and I do a run through there, we'll try placing something, but I imagine it'll state that "Furniture can't be placed here"
I will say this, infiltration can be done solo if your character has the appropriate skills (Toxic pretty much is able to enter the base on his own with a rocket launcher). It's a matter of taking out a single turret, after that, you pretty much have free run of most of the depot. Regarding the armory level Toxic pictured, the boxes north of his position had crafting materials (Kevlar). The room southeast of where he's positioned (not pictured) contains the Sierra Assembly device, where the Tier 4 weapons and armor will be able to be assembled. This we have access to TODAY; its just a matter of having those rare components (and assuming they don't alter the Sierra Army Depot as already configured). I am also going to assume, while possessing no evidence to back this belief, that the area beyond the red line where Toxic is standing will eventually contain at least some of those rare components; there's no purpose otherwise -- why fight X amount of sentry robots to just get some Kevlar? So I imagine it'll contain premium materials once the higher tier weapons are unlocked.
The room south of where Toxic is standing is the armory; the doors are locked and can't be picked. Through one of the recent updates, they added a holotape to the Sierra Caves (level 2), a very rare item that, as stated, would grant access to the Armory of the Sierra Army Depot. I have seen one, and only one, on sale in Junktown for 200k caps. It looks like a holotape placed face down (so you're looking at it laying on its side). There's a computer terminal inside the Armory that I assume that tape would be placed in and unlock the doors. What's inside them is another question. As many of the tier 4 weapons haven't been unlocked, I'm going to guess that there aren't gatling lasers down there, but Turbo Plasma Rifles wouldn't be out of the question, maybe even power armor. Is that worth 200k to find out? Difficult to say. Not a decision to be made by me, but thanks to Redeye, we do have the money for it. I also don't think it would trigger the sentry robots, because why would it, we wouldn't be triggering an alarm and wouldn't be crossing a Obama red line.
Getting back to the boxes in the north of the armory, its a question of whether its worth doing now. But lets assume we will do it, or have to so we can get access to the armory (perhaps destroying all the sentry robots opens the doors too, who knows). Toxic was suggesting mines when we were mulling over how to confront them, but now I'm thinking C4 would be even better. First, they're priced similar to mines (2-3k), and second, they deal more damage. I've seen a suicide bomber kill a NCR guard by exploding right next to him, and that person was armored and had at least over 300hp. So we can do a test run and place 2 or 3 around a sentry and see if it takes it out; would it trigger them just to place it one is another question that'll be answered. But we'll test and see if its feasible.
Lastly, we need Machete to show up so we can start doing these things with force behind it. Screw the deathclaw and raider dailies, we're hitting Mariposa, Sierra Caves, Sierra Army depot, and if we can get some guys together, we could probably do the Glow. The rare loot has only been trickling in the past week, because doing the Sierra Caves solo has gotten a lot more dangerous. There was a time I could do it solo, but now your running into guys every other map down there. It's gotten to the point where we can't even farm outside of SF because we're attacked almost every single time, and if you decide to make a fight of it, they call in backup. I know its the holidays now, but after that passes, we need Machete to show its colors.
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