deathdealer wrote Can anyone recommend a way to get some easy caps without cheating?

go sell some slaves it gives bad karma but its easy money and then you can release them and capture them again

NO!

you can buy them in shops but its best to be easy and save your caps!

go to fort independence and give him all your parts you can:

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best thing to do is give him the alien power cells and when you give them all to the paladin, get a stealth boy, sneak behind him, save the game and pickpocket him till you get em back. Obviously reload the game if you fail to steal