New Mormon

**New Mormon** was founded by a faction from the Fallout: New Vegas mod, Fallout: The Frontier, the Crusaders of Steel, when they were booted out of the psyche multiverse. Now they fight for the land of North Columbus with their advance technology and ideological mixture of their Brotherhood of Steel code and the teachings of Mormonism.

## History

Originally, in the mod, the Crusaders were formed by a Brotherhood of Steel paladin, Tasha Weaver, who was left for dead at HELIOS One. She and several other Brotherhood refugees met up at New Canaan to live out a peaceful existence. The destruction of New Canaan was the crucible in which the Crusaders were born. Returning from a missionary trip, Weaver beheld the destruction of all she came to love. Possess with fury, Weaver repaired and repainted her power armor. Gritted her teeth she added a new symbol to her armor: a blood red symbol that merged the Crusader Cross with the BoS insignia.

Standing back she believed God had a new mission for her: To reclaim the Holy Lands, to rebuild the old cities like had been done with New Canaan and New Jerusalem. The BoS was correct in their collection of old world technology, but wrong in their worship. The tech should be used to reclaim the cities from the wasteland trash and establish new Mormon cities like New Canaan. Brotherhood and Mormonism philosophies battled in her mind congealing into a strange new religion.

Driven by her charisma and indignation, Weaver and her fellow missionaries formed the Crusaders and declared a Holy War against what she perceived the enemies of rebuilding humanity, the Enemies of God or the Unworthy as she called them. Setting out to reclaim the Holy Lands, she makes a detour with some of her knights to give Elias Blackthorne some much owed payback, a man she viewed as evil incarnate along with his exiles.
During the Crusaders trek to The Frontier, they came across an untouched military armory in Idaho, stocked with prototype equipment, food, and water, still utilizing it as their current equipment. But when the United Nations & Creations were founded and many non-official works booted, the Crusaders of Steel were sent to the planet Usonia. However, when there on the continent of North Columbus, they discovered some of their old enemies in the most northern parts of this new land. This includes the NCR Exiles and the newly established Northern Rome, a nation founded by the Northern Legion from Caesar's Legion. Yet in this place, there are ruins based on Fallout that the Crusaders of Steel raided and took every advance weapon, food, and other supplies as they founded New Mormon. Even though there aren't any Scavs, there are still plenty of feral ghouls and other monsters.

Yet there is one prize in order to obtain victory in this three way war. At the center of the three, there lies the crashed remains of Archimedes II, a once powerful satellite but still has all of its advance technology inside. However, it is extremely guarded by very powerful guardians with some able to move at the speed of sound, cyborg Deathclaws, robotic bugs, and many more guarding it.

As such, they completely ignore any request about joining other factions as they were busy setting up their own nation while also dealing with the other two enemies they have. However, they are very open to pilgrims and missionaries of the Mormon faith. This might bring open negotiations with New Mormon in the future.

## Government

The government of New Mormon is being lead by a Domina. In this case, it is the founder name Tasha Weaver who is the leading Domina. The Domina (or in the case of a male leader, Dominus) shares her power with the executive branch, the Council of Ministers. The Council of Ministers make and vote on laws that are comprised of members who have risen and voted through merits in statesmanship, battle, economics and etc. The Council of Ushers are actually voted by their people to represent the settlements they govern and there are only one member each while the mayors or governors stay at home as the Ushers vote or veto any laws made by the Council of Ministers.

The Court of Mormonism is the judicial branch of New Mormon.

## Economy

Even though they lack large numbers like the Northern Rome and the NCR Exiles, they do have access to a large number of robots such as the RobCo Industries Protectrons and Sentry Bots that act as guardians and protectors along with General Atomics International Mister Handy robots that do most of the menial labor while the Mister Gutsy robots act as additional troops for support. They also have access to superior firepower such as plasma guns and lasers along with the power armor they wear that they sometimes trade to gain these objects.

Salvaging, scavenging and mining are the primary source of resources in New Mormon as they scour the land for any technology they can find along with gaining new materials to repair some of the technology. Iron and coal are the main materials needed in order to make steel. Steel is very important with some of the excess rock and rubble used to make concrete in order to maintain and repair some of the buildings under their control in many ruins that people settled in. They also require other materials such as copper wires for electricity, rubber for insulation, cloth for clothing and warm and so on. Yet precious metals such as gold and silver along with gemstones are used to help adorn many Mormon temples and churches.

Salt is also an important resource in New Mormon. Not just for flavoring food and preserving them, but also to use on ice and snow. In winter, frost is the enemy that the inhabitants have to deal with in order to keep the roads cleared for supply lines and travel.

Farming is also important with many fertile valleys in their nation. The people of New Mormon can grow an abundance of maize, apples, pears, potatoes, carrots and mutfruit in these valleys along with other foods that don't exactly exist in the Fallout games. Grains such as wheat and rye are used to make bread and are just as important as they also use it for livestock feed. But jalapeno peppers are good for the long winters that can help yet eating too much can cause some problems such as painful diarrhea. For meat and hide, they brought in Shaggy Bighorners that they also use for beasts of burden. Molerats are also ranched for leather and meat with their teeth used for making ivory goods.

## Military

The armed forces of New Mormon is the Crusaders of Steel, named after the faction that founded New Mormon. Much like the Brotherhood of Steel, they use power armor yet are given blood red insignias of the original Crusaders of Steel. They also possess a great amount of advance energy weapons such as plasma and lasers along with energy sniper rifles, the Gaileon sub-sonic assault rifles, other such weapons.

The hierarchy of the military is rather reminiscent of religious titles and a few medieval European ones. Domina (or Diminus) is the head of the military. Castellans are those that govern fortresses and military bases. Arch-prelates are relatively archbishops that act as the Brotherhood equivalent of a sentinel while prelates are an equivalent of star paladins. Sophers are more akin to scribes. Crusaders are the equivalent of knights. Missionaries are not only scouts, but also as provisioners.