Reaver Movement The Reaver Movement is a religious cult of human s dedicated to the worship of technology operating in the Midwest . Background . The Reaver Movement was founded many decades before 2197 in the Midwest . They were raiders at first who found a military cache in the Midwest and started to create a religion dedicated to the worship of technology and everything around it . Sometime after , they established a headquarters in the former city of Newton in Kansas , where reaver scientists began to examine and produce technology and weapons . They are very different than the Brotherhood of Steel , since they feel technology has an important religious significance and have religious beliefs in various technology - related fields . They are also more aggressive and have kept their likeness to raiders , acting like them when they come close to getting new technology . Proof of how great their dedication is demonstrated by the fact that just after they learned about the destruction of a humanoid robot in Junction City around 2198 , they immediately came to the town to retrieve the parts and established a compound outside , preparing for battle without worrying about whether anyone could head them off . Here the Warrior and his squad meets them for the first time . They were launching probing attacks against Junction City for the parts , but they were killed and the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel recovered all of the humanoid - robot parts instead . Sometime later , a reaver delegate came to Bunker Delta of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel , bringing news that a large robot force of the calculator ' s had all but annihilated the main camp of the Reaver Movement in Newton . The delegate called on the motion of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel for assistance in the defense of the city , and above all , to save the four reaver elders : ( Albert Lamore , Rodger Gaire , Glenda Close and Tobias Peste ) , who barricaded themselves in various locations throughout the city . Normally , the Midwestern Brotherhood would gladly allow one enemy to destroy another , but the reavers had something to offer in exchange - a pulse rifle prototype developed by the Reaver Movement thanks to robot pieces that they ' ve been able to scavenge , that has a devastating effect on electronics , which makes it an effective weapon against the Calculator ' s robots . They agreed to give the Midwestern Brotherhood both a prototype of this weapon and instruction on its workings if Newton and the four reaver elders were saved . After the Warrior ' s squad liberated Newton , several reavers decided to join the ranks of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel in order to fight the " Menace from the West " , the army of the Calculator . Although the action of the liberation of Newton established official contacts with the Reaver Movement , the Midwestern Brotherhood elders were a little skeptical . Other reaver survivors of Newton were temporarily placed in internment camps to await a further turn of events - set them free or restrict them to labor camps . Society . They are lead by the four reaver elders and have a structure similar to a traditional government with politicians , a chief of the army , a medical division , a science division , etc . , but religious classes are also important in the Reaver Movement , like priests . Also , the priest is the only reaver office that can be held in conjunction with the other classes , like scientist - priest . They are extremely numerous , and a group of about forty reavers can be seen in Junction City just to get one item of technology and patrol the Midwest . Sometimes just one reaver is found , but generally they are in groups of 2 up to 8 , supported at times by super mutants of the Gammorin ' s Army . The ambassadors care for reavers people and their religion , acting like ministers . The leader of the ambassadors , and one of the four reaver elders , is the " 1st Ambassador " , Albert Lamore in 2197 , his function is comparable to a president of the Reaver Movement . The leader of the reavers army is the " General and joint chief of staff " , also one of the four reaver elders : Rodger Gaire in 2197 . They give the orders for all major military projects and are assisted by captains in the field . Their medical leader and another reaver elder is the " Chief of medical division " ( also called First Doctor ) , and is Glenda Close in 2197 , who is in charge of medical research as well as practical applications of medicine in the field . The leader of the scientific research and the last reaver elder is the " Chief of science division " ( also called Chief of military science projects ) : one Tobias Peste in 2197 . Also , they have priests allowed to perform the sacred rites of the Reaver Movement and acting as a mediatory between the reavers and the reavers ' gods . They also have holy visions about prophecy or technology , fanciful or not , that sometime take shape after in Temple - Laboratories , the reaver workshops . They generally perform a period of fasting , permitting them to have a better contact with their gods . Religion . Technology is everything for the Reaver Movement , seeing it as sacred , searching for the spiritual enlightenment of science . Knowledge is divine for them and they don ' t hesitate to give courage in combat with citing the greatest invention of man or the scientific theory , like " for the glory of the transistor " and " by the spirit of Counter - Electric - Motor - Force ! " , they also refer to each other as brothers . They believe in a thing called the " current flow " , connecting them between the spiritual world of technology and the real world . They have and revere many gods called Tech - Gods - mostly based on electrical units or pre - War technology components - their domains being related to their function . The known Tech - Gods of the Reaver Movement are : Like many religions , they believe in places similar to Hell and Paradise . The Reaver Hell , the place of all evil technology ( like the Calculator ' s robot ) is named the " Tech - Underworld " which has a large electric current traversing it called the " Styx River " , a reference to the Greek underworld . It ' s the domain of Satansoft , a derogatory reference to competitor Squaresoft , ( also called the " Dark One " by Reaver priests ) and his acolyte Be ' alza - Gates , whom controls hostile technology . For them , the Calculator ' s robots are the hydroelectric fiends of Satansoft , also called hell spawns . The Reaver Paradise , where the Reavers and especially the fighters killed during an honorable battle go after life is named the " Eternal Assembly Lines of Panasonica " , the domain of Panasonica . While Reavers revere technological instruments and weapons , they think hostile technology against them , like the Calculator ' s robots , are possessed by a evil god named " Satansoft " and are their creature , a " Satansoft ' s creature " . Each piece of recovered hostile technology are surnamed " evil part " . They also have something called the " Holy Multimeter " , allowing them to get answers on something , but it ' s only available for consultation by reaver priests . Relations with the outside . Before the official contact with the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel , the Reaver Movement was hostile towards anyone except the Gammorin ' s Army , who patrolled together sometimes to cover an area too far west for Gammorin ' s Army . As zealous worshipers of technology and their past as raiders , they act like them when they come to getting new technology , attacking anyone making their way through them with technologies . Apart from them , they see others as pagans without interest ( even the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel ) . Technology . They all wear atypical armor created with woven steel cables with plates of interlocking steel mesh encased in cloth panels , like the reaver banding and greater banding . They are technologically strong in cybernetics enhancements and surgical augmentations , often use for their body , mostly scanning sensor that allow at least to sweep an area of twenty feet , detecting even a person who is sneaking . They are also known to use enhanced eye sight , hand surgical implants , central processors and valve - tube augmentation . Reavers often carry high - tech weapons and their scientists have shown great intuition , being able to invent new technological things like weapons . Their arsenal includes : Each member ( especially the warriors ) also have plenty of stimpak s and super stimpak s . Appearances . The Reaver Movement appear only in " " .