Circle of Steel (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Circle of Steel is a branch organization within the Brotherhood of Steel dedicated to dealing with internal conflicts. In terms of their position relative to the Brotherhood proper, they handle the internal affairs of the whole Brotherhood of Steel.Patient log: Y-17Chris Avellone: "The revised take on the Circle of Steel was different (for me, they weren’t evil, they were just hardliners who thought the rest had drifted from the original principles of preserving tech and policing their own rogues – kind of like Internal Affairs)"(Chris Avellone on willooi.com) (Archived)
==Background==
After the Mojave Brotherhood was defeated at HELIOS One, another branch of the organization ordered the execution of the individual responsible, Elder Elijah. An agent of the Circle of Steel, Knight Christine Royce, was sent out to hunt him down and eliminate him, equipped with a silenced sniper rifle and Brotherhood recon armor.Patient log: Y-17.0Patient log Y-17.5
==Appearances==
The Circle of Steel is mentioned in the Fallout: New Vegas add-ons Dead Money and Old World Blues. They are based off of a Brotherhood faction bearing the same name that was originally intended to appear in the cancelled Van Buren. 
==Behind the scenes==
* According to Chris Avellone, the faction that was to be introduced in the canceled Van Buren was formed by hardliners in the Brotherhood of Steel, who believed the rest of the organization had drifted from the original principles of preserving technology.@Omega_Sucal: "Are the Circle of Steel that were meant to be in Van Buren the same as the one that Christine formally/currently belongs too?"@ChrisAvellone: "They're 1st iteration of Van Buren (BOS hardliners)."(Chris Avellone's Twitter) (Archived)
* Avellone also summarizes them as "secret black ops (more stealthy/techninja/assassins) branch we intended to introduce in Van Buren, and that branch was becoming unhinged through extreme use of Stealth Boy technology, and causing fractures within the political structure of the BoS." in Fallout Apocrypha, explicitly noting the connection between Christine Royce and the canonical Circle of Steel .
==Gallery==
Christine's COS silencer rifle.jpg|Christine's Cirle of Steel rifle
==References==
Non-game
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