Enclave Californian Expedition

The Californian Expedition, often shortened to the Expedition, are the Enclave’s mainland forces on the American west coast in 2241.
==Background==
The origins of the Enclave lie in remnants of the United States government, military, and several corporate interests leading up to the Great War. Prominent individuals within these groups became concerned that a nuclear war with China was inevitable. They formed the Enclave, a secret society and deep state within the US that controlled and manipulated the country. The Enclave believed that they alone were capable and worthy of continuing the legacy of America, and funneled taxpayer money to build several sites across America to protect themselves, and in their eyes America itself after a nuclear war.Intelligence memo - 8/16/77 "It's an invoice number for an order placed by the Dept. of Ag. at Eckhart's request, bound for the bunker. They claim it's part of the facility's "automation" effort. That's a lie. Invoice 417604 is experimental equipment. High-tech. Lots of it. The automation thing's just a cover-up. Some of this stuff, this is military-grade equipment, Sam. Biological warfare. Human experimentation. They're gearing up to go to war. Or, more likely, end one."
Some within the Enclave genuinely believed that their efforts were for the greater good of preserving the American way of life, however many others simply wanted to survive the apocalypse in comfort. The Enclave’s main base, Control Station ENCLAVE, survived the Great War and has protected its inhabitants for over 150 years following atomic armageddon.
===The Steel Plague===
The Enclave assumed that humanity would not survive the War, that life could only exist in their own shelters and the Vaults. In the time they waited for humanity outside of themselves to finally die out, the Enclave grew lazy and complacent. Returning to the irradiated mainland seemed increasingly pointless when the Presidential Rig has everything one could ever need. Generations have grown up and died in the oil rig’s halls, many none the wiser that humanity was rising once again on the mainland. The Steel Plague, a technologically advanced group once more commonly known as the Brotherhood of Steel, has been growing across California. Those of the Secret Service, through their infrequent mainland scouting operations, worried that the Steel Plague could threaten the Enclave if not dealt with.
The president finally authorized the creation of the Enclave Californian Expedition in the early 2200s when reconnaissance performed by the Secret Service made it unavoidably clear that the Steel Plague's technological crusade would not end soon. A portion of the oil rig’s roughly 1000 residents have traveled to the mainland as part of the Enclave Californian Expedition to defeat the Steel Plague before it becomes strong enough to destroy the Enclave.
===Quelling the plague===
By 2241 the Expedition has several operations across the west coast of the formed United States, all with the purpose of opposing the Steel Plague and strengthening the Enclave’s position on the mainland. Headquartered at Fort Navarro, the American Reclamation Zone is the heart of the Enclave’s efforts to build up a strong military force on the west coast. To the north, the Oregon Pacification Sector exterminates the deemed “mutated tribal” elements of Oregon to secure resources for the Enclave’s efforts. In the south, the Expedition secretly sends supplies to the Salvatore crime family and Shi to create resistance against the Steel Plague.
==Society==
The Californian Expedition is an extremely isolationist faction. Desperate to keep their existence hidden from the Steel Plague until they are ready to fight them, they lie waiting and building up their military forces for their inevitable conflict. 
The Enclave was founded on the basis that their members were the only Americans worthy of surviving the Great War. They looked down upon the common American and did not believe it was necessary nor feasible to try to save those not inducted into the Enclave. To themselves they alone were the "best of the best" of United States, those most capable of carrying on the torch of America into the post-nuclear world, and the only ones worthy of being saved. In reality they were not the greatest America had to offer. Members of the pre-War Enclave deep state were those in positions of power, including the political, military, and corporate elite, as well as their families and those necessary for the continued operation of the Enclave after the Great War. Nepotism was rampant in the Enclave before armageddon, few would have accepted entry unless their families were saved as well.
The pre-War beliefs of their superiority over "average" Americans persisted into the post-apocalypse. The Enclave remained hidden and made few if any attempts to help those outside of the oil rig. They lived in luxury for many years, believing that China was gone and those survivors of the mainland would eventually die off. After that perhaps the Enclave would resettle what was left of California, then maybe the continent. After realizing in the 2200s that humanity had not died out as easily as expected and seeing the threat the Steel Plague posed, the Enclave decided that the mainland needed to be "cleansed" of non-Enclave elements. Wastelanders were deemed to be sub-human mutants, justifying their extermination in the eyes of the Enclave and beginning their campaign of brutal mainland "reclamation."
==References==
Category:Enclave
Category:Post-War Factions
Category:Post-War Militaries