Buffalo Chapter

Golden insignia of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel

The Buffalo Chapter of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel was a series of military expeditions sent by the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel to the city of Buffalo. Upon the Enclave's arrival in Buffalo in 2280, the Buffalo Chapter was decisively defeated and forced to withdraw to Mount Bristol, where it plans to continue the fight against the Enclave.

## **History**

### **The First Expedition - (2214 - 2226)**

The Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel caught wind of mysterious rumours of armoured boogeymen in the forests of Upstate New York. Primarily concerned with the emergence of a possible new enemy, but also interested in recovering what they could from the region, they dispatched a small but well-armed expedition to the city of Buffalo and the surrounding areas. The newly-established Buffalo Chapter found it's first years in the city peaceful. Trade had begun to increase dramatically as the Brotherhood continued to make the Midwest safe for caravaneers, and raiders were a rarity.

Unfortunately, a natural side-effect of prosperity is those who seek to exploit it; and soon the Buffalo Wasteland began to become increasingly dangerous. The Buffalo Chapter saw itself take on a more direct role in defending the people, and therefore became a target. Nonetheless, after years of fighting with the locals, and with no traces of the mysterious boogeymen heard of in the tales, the expedition was recalled in 2226, causing a power vacuum within Buffalo.

### **The Second Expedition and the Niagara War - (2230 - 2231)**

The Brotherhood had been absent in Buffalo for 4 years by the time of the arrival of the armies of Toronto. Lead by fanatics who followed pre-war Canadian separatist ideals, they made short work of the militias inside of the city of Buffalo and enslaved most of the people within. Once the Brotherhood learned of this, a response was immediately prepared - the Second Expedition.

A large army of the Midwestern Brotherhood was prepared to deal with the threat. Their arrival in Buffalo saw the swift defeat of the Canadian raiders who were then chased across the Niagara, with successive engagements at Niagara, Saint's and Hamilton. The Brotherhood returned to the Midwest victorious after just under a year of fighting and the complete erasure of Toronto as a threat to the Buffalo Wasteland.

### **The Third Expedition - (2259 - 2280)**

It had been some time since the Niagara War when the Brotherhood again considered the deployment of an expeditionary force to Buffalo. The discovery of previously-hidden military records alerted them to the existence of a massive bunker complex beneath the city. The first men of the Brotherhood arrived in Buffalo in 2259, and the Buffalo Chapter was reformed for the third time.

By 2280, the Brotherhood had not managed to access the bunker complex - no known military override worked, and the security system's passcode was not stored on any database known to them. Suddenly, an aerial assault by the Enclave wiped out much of the Buffalo Chapter and seized the city, the bunker with it. As their primary objective was to access to the facility beneath Buffalo, the Enclave did not preoccupy itself with chasing down survivors of the Buffalo Chapter, and so many managed to regroup and make their way to Bristol Mountain Ski Resort, which remained the headquarters of the Buffalo Chapter by 2287.

The Midwestern Brotherhood was aware of the sudden disappearance of the Buffalo Chapter, but found itself preoccupied with other conflicts. However, by 2287, those conflicts had been resolved, and the Midwestern Brotherhood, now fully aware of the Enclave's presence in Buffalo, was preparing to strike back.

## **Diplomacy**

### **Choppers**

> "*The Brotherhood and the Choppers used to fight eachother from sunrise to sundown. But, since the Enclave came, we've been some of the few people willing to stand up to them. They must like that, since they usually turn their back on us instead of gunning us down nowadays*"- [NAME]
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The Choppers and the Buffalo Chapter were once historic enemies, the former vying for control over the city of Buffalo, and the latter countering them at every turn. That all changed when the Enclave attacked. Both sides suffered greatly, and refused to give up on their struggle against the Enclave. The Choppers fought the Enclave wherever possible - ambushing patrols, raiding supply convoys, detonating bombs in Enclave outposts. Their common, shared enemy naturally caused them to drift together, until their hostilities had effectively ceased, and both sides considered themselves friends - in a sense.