Chicago Conflict

* Legion-Brotherhood War
* NCR-Legion War

### Outcome

* Midwestern Brotherhood eastern expansion halted by Chicago Federal Remnants (Chicago Enclave)
* Midwestern Brotherhood lines broken in the west by Caesar's Legion
* Desertion among Midwestern Brotherhood troops affected by Project MK ULTRA² drug known as LSD²

Combatants| * Chicago Federal Remnants (Chicago Enclave)

Commanders| * The Chief of Naval Operations
* General Hayden Trench
* President Daniel Parker
* Jeremias Klink
* Legate Malpais
* Legate Lanius
* Rabbi Trask

### Battles and events

* Battle of Des Plaines River
* Fission City Blitz
* Battle of Bunker Alpha

The **Chicago Conflict** was the name given to the war in the Midwest between the Enclave, Midwestern Brotherhood, cohorts of Caesar's Legion, and Reformed Unity.

## Background

During the beginning stages of the Crusade for the Capitol it was quite clear that the revaluation of the existence of the Chicago Federal Remnants (Chicago Enclave) to the Midwestern Brotherhood would be revealed. When troops and deployments were taken off to Washington D.C. there was a seemingly a ripple effect beginning targeting of inner city holdings by the Midwestern Brotherhood and a general push North to  Great Lakes Naval Station and it's underwater access. Whether the Brotherhood knew of its significance or not.

## Battles

### Battle of Des Plaines River

Taking place in 2278. Single-handedly the most important survival battle for the Chicago Enclave near the old O'Hare airport prevented further expansion North and East of Bunker Alpha. So much equipment was poured into the failed Crusade for the Capitol by Augustus Autumn that reserve equipment from the West Coast and as far back as Operation Anchorage had been mobilized from storage. Cold winter battles and the successful deployment of troops within key choke points by the Chief of Naval Operations resulted in a successful block of any aggression towards the Enclave headquarters. Brotherhood efforts to go north would now either have to be driven up and around through Wisconsin leaving them open to ambush or place them into battle with the Reformed Unity Horde in the inner city. The future Elder Morticia Theophania chose the later.

### Fission City Blitz

During and after the construction of Fission City. There were a few aerial confrontations between the Enclave and Midwestern Brotherhood of steel. To seek to strike deeper without having to cross the Des Plaines river or face mutant hordes, the Midwestern Brotherhood deployed new airships and primitive propeller fighter planes. Enclave forces deployed older Vertibird models which were generations superior to the Midwestern Brotherhood aircraft and resulted in an entire wipe of a majority of the Midwestern rebuilt aircraft.

### Battle of Bunker Alpha

After the deployment of the synthetic additive known as LSD² against the Midwestern Brotherhood's enlisted through use of secondary drug merchants. Many of said enlisted personnel began to desert post and protest the war actions of the Neo-Feudal organization. Despite their Monk/Monastic style of operation, through the years they had subsequently undergone to distance themselves from their codex beliefs of Roger Maxson. As a result the new conscripts and even some regular domestic born troops began experimenting with chems. When cheaper and much more powerful chems came out it was too hard to resist. The battle of Bunker Alpha happened near Joliet soon after but was successfully defended by pulling more forces to defend the Capitol bunker. However the influence of the Midwest Brotherhood and their abilities to control their entire region were shaken to the core. While a total victory was not possible, the Battle of Bunker Alpha marked the end of any attempt to rid Chicago of the Federal Remnants by the Brotherhood.