New Vegas - Making non-persistent references Persistent In-Game

Warhawk

Post-Apocalyptic Pilot
So far I've gone to Hell and back trying to work around this junk. Suffice it to say that I grew too attached to NPCs I spawned in as companions, and these references are not permanent, and therefore require a huge amount of babying to keep them with me. For that matter, I'm running into places where my game might completely dead-end because some scripted transition or another wipes them.

Long story short: Does anyone know of a method to take existing references, in-game, and make them permanent? That means no modding the GECK, no creating companions later. I mean taking a random guy on the street and making him a persistent reference. I have tried the following, which don't make any difference:

- Setting base IDs to essential
- Setting them as player teammates
- Setting them to the player faction
- Adding a follow script package (they rarely follow me through doors, and are left behind when switching worldspaces)
- Clipping like a mother@#$%er to try to keep them in sight or get back to them ASAP

Corny as it sounds, I've got a squad of four men who helped me destroy the Brotherhood bunker. We're walking around like armored hulks. I don't want to lose 'em.
 
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