Brotherhood of Steel

The Brotherhood of Steel is a quasi-knightly military organisation that is a major faction within continental post-war America. It is home to a diverse group of Chapters, some of which have sworn off the Brotherhood's original ideals or have adopted a highly modified version of them.

## **Chapters**

### **Capital Loyalists Remnants**

The Capital Loyalists were a group within the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel that seceded from the order following the ascension of Elder Maxson to the eldership. They were loyal to the ideals of Elder Lyons, and believed Maxson's to be radical, unreasonable and insane. They failed in their efforts to depose him, but many key members from the Capital Loyalists went on to found minor Chapters throughout the East.

#### **Albany Chapter**

The Albany Chapter is a Brotherhood of Steel division located in Albany, New York. It is a remnant group of the Capital Loyalists and is led by Sentinel Kodiak. Uniquely, this Chapter operates without an Elder, and believes that one day it will be able to depose Arthur Maxson and restore Lyons ideals.

#### **Ohio Chapter**

The Ohio Chapter is a small sect operating out of central Ohio. It is made up of ten personnel, and the Chapter itself operates moreso as a de facto outpost of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel while remaining a de jure independent Chapter.

### **Colorado Chapter**

The Colorado Chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel was an offshoot of the Lost Hills Chapter that operated out of central and western Colorado between 2254 and 2279. They were sent east as part of the group that traveled with Owyn Lyons aboard a Brotherhood of Steel constructed airship, their ultimate destination being Washington D.C. A schism occurred that saw roughly a third of the forces under Lyons' command end their journey prematurely over Western Colorado, while the other two thirds continued onwards. This group became the Colorado Chapter.

The Colorado Chapter was primarily made up of Lost Hills devotees and was fanatically loyal, in contrast to the nearby Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel. The former Chapter refused to communicate with the latter, and ignored their offers of safehaven when Caesar's Legion entered Colorado. The Colorado Chapter was entirely wiped out by Legate Lanius.

One of the primary goals of the Colorado Chapter post-establishment was to seek entry to the Boulder Dome, though they were unable to do so prior to their destruction.

### **Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel**

The Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel is the primary Brotherhood of Steel Chapter operating in the Midwestern United States. It fields a large, well-equipped military which allowed it to become the dominant faction in the Midwest and remain so for almost a century.

It was originally an expedition deployed eastwards to assess the dangers post by the remnants of the Master's Army, however Lost Hills had ulterior motives; most if not all of the men sent on the expedition harboured anti-Traditionalist views towards the Brotherhood, and were ideologically opposed to the isolationism of Lost Hills. When the air convoy was torn apart by a freak storm and an airship crashed southeast of Chicago, the Midwestern Chapter was formed by the expedition's survivors and very quickly carved an empire out of the Midwest.

Their ideals differ greatly to Chapters with a more traditional mindset. They are open and have aspirations to dominate the entire Midwest; they recruit from local populations and have legitimate governmental systems in place to govern the land they control. They are, however, in many ways a brutal force that does not shy away from the complete annihilation of it's enemies.

### **Texas Chapter**

The Texas Chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel was a small sect based out of Carbon, Texas. It had broken off contact with Lost Hills by 2260, and had been destroyed well before 2287.

#### **Texan Expedition**

The Texan Expedition is a Chapter that was originally deployed by Arthur Maxson's Brotherhood of Steel in 2284. Their original goal was to retrieve vital schematics and rare technology from the various rocket propulsion and spaceflight research labs within the state, though a series of unfortunate events caused the expedition to be stranded in Central Texas with no communication to either the East Coast or Lost Hills, and no safe way home.

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