Midwest Brotherhood of Steel

**The Midwestern Brotherhood** is a chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel located throughout Kansas, Iowa and Illinois, separated by hundreds of miles in separate bases and bunkers. Although the Brotherhood was one of the most powerful forces in the wasteland, attrition was still an issue, and the group found itself at odds over the need for new recruits. One faction supported allowing tribals (human outsiders) to join the organization and bolster their ranks, while others wanted to keep the Brotherhood pure. In the end, the majority supported keeping the Brotherhood exclusive, and the minority supporting outside expansion was sent across the mountains on great airships to destroy the remnants of the super mutant army. However, a catastrophic lightning storm struck the convoy during the journey, destroying many of the ships and taking the leaders of the expedition with them. The survivors were forced to land outside the ruins of Chicago, unable to contact their main bases for assistance.

Despite the grim situation, the Brotherhood forces found they had much to offer the native population, many of whom had never seen such advanced equipment. They developed a working relationship with the locals, offering protection and medicines for food and labor. New recruits were eagerly welcomed. Free from the restrictive ideology of the main organization, the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel was free to forge its own identity, which reflected the inclusive ideals they had fought for all along. (Wiki info ends). Eventually, the Brotherhood uncovered information that told of what was supposed to be the nucleus of the pre war Vaults: Vault Zero. A potential treasure trove of knowledge and technology. To acquire it, the Brotherhood needed to push back west. It would be a hard fought campaign against Raiders, Super Mutants, Beasts, and worst of all, the Pacification Robots controlled by the Calculator resting in the core of Vault Zero itself. In the end, the Calculator was destroyed, stopping the robot army in it's tracks, and leaving Vault Zero battered but in the hands of the Brotherhood. The ancient structure becomes the central hub of operations, coordinating between outposts far and near and reinforcing their supply lines and transport routes across the countryside, ironically mimicking the original purpose of their defeated enemy.

Recruitment and education of the local tribal and village populations becomes the all important mission of the depleted and wounded Brotherhood. But the education is not one sided: after generations of surviving in the harshness of the Wastelands, the indigenous people are in tune with the land. They have valuable lessons to teach those immersed solely in technology, lessons of nature and balance that the Brotherhood had previously neglected. Not all of the Wasteland's inhabitants are sharing the same noble purpose: opportunistic raiders and bandits enjoy the fruits of a recovering war-torn Brotherhood. Patrols are scarce and in smaller numbers than the thieves remember encountering in the past, as the Brotherhood focuses on consolidating its power base. Several frontier outposts are lost as the Brotherhood finds they are fighting a guerrilla war without the support of large numbers, but adversity and hardship are as familiar to the Brotherhood as discipline and knowledge and they learn their lessons quickly. With a new power over this region comes a new responsibility. All plans for re-establishing contact with the west are postponed indefinitely. Recruitment begins anew and the initiate ranks swell. All military efforts are then concentrated on uprooting all outlaw predators in the region, finally making it safe for the Brotherhood and its allies. In time, the Brotherhood once again rules the land. Resources are then allocated to expansion and development. Technology becomes more widespread: with irrigation systems established to make the nuclear blasted land fertile. Humanity once again starts to prosper. The Hero, the warrior of the Brotherhood, now a general, shares the burden and the satisfaction of overseeing civilization's development. The Brotherhood of Steel has come through the trials of this region and emerged scarred but wiser. It will be decades before a reunion is possible between the old Brotherhood and the new Brotherhood regime. After decades of pacifying the region and rebuilding from the Calculator War, the Brotherhood now found attacks coming from outside their territory from a large militant tribe called "Caesar's Legion." The Legion had raided some of their frontier outposts and even captured some scribes alive, but they were unable to push further into Brotherhood territory when faced with fierce resistance. The Legion has not made any further moves into their territory ever since discovering Hoover Dam.

By this time, the Super Mutant population had lowered greatly in the region and in the ranks of the Brotherhood, as the research into fixing mutant sterility had made little to no progress in nearly a century, and some of the mutants believed the Brotherhood was intentionally preventing it from becoming reality. Many of them left the region, and now there was barely over a hundred mutants in the entirety of the Midwest, and only a fraction of those are actually still enlisted with the Brotherhood. The Brotherhoods troubles were far from over, especially when the Cloud arrived from the West. While Vault Zero and the Brotherhoods Bunkers were able to be sealed and remain safe, many of the villages and towns the Brotherhood relied on for supplies and recruits were forced to either flee or die. The Bunkers were designated as safe zones, but they could only hold so many. The Brotherhood quickly had to close their doors to many of those that they had sworn to protect, dooming many and no doubt creating new enemies from those that managed to survive on their own. While the Cloud was at it's strongest, the Brotherhood had to rely on the robots they had managed to repair as well as soldiers clad in Power Armor and Environmental Suits to perform any outside activity.

Now, with the Brotherhood having developed countermeasures to the Cloud and with the deadly mist becoming less potent with time, the Brotherhood finds they must reclaim much of their territory even after decades of work. Once more, they square their shoulders and prepare for the task ahead.