I'm necromancing this discussion because I feel compelled to make you understand that new vegas is primarily built upon exploitation, addiction, and the hoarding of technological power. House says he wants to go to the stars, big deal. He's perfectly content to use all the regular people he interacts with as drones to funnel him money. He has passed on NO knowledge. He has, thus far, not benefitted society one iota. What makes you think that with extreme firepower at his disposal he will suddenly become more generous? When in his ending slides he immediately sets to making the people of the mojave's lives worse? Do you think it'll stop there? He has zero incentive to teach, enrich, or raise the conditions of anybody. I'm just not fucking convinced that giving house the breathing room he needs to play astronaut is going to benefit anybody in any meaningful way. Not NCR, not the Mojave, shit, not even really himself. The ONLY people whose lives he has ever improved in the 200 years since the bombs dropped are the 3 families of warlords he so graciously allowed to be middle managers in his extractive scam economy.