BOS Origins

Origins of the Brotherhood of Steel

The very beginning:  The story of the Brotherhood of Steel begins with a character named Roger Maxson,who was the second in command of a United States military team sent to monitor the progress of the research staff in the year 2076. The team was conducting various secret experiments in an effort to expand their understanding of F.E.V. but none of the members in the military team knew that upon being assigned to the unit. In 2077 when the entire research team, as well as the military unit sent to monitor them, were all sent to a newly built government research facility in Mariposa California. 

Shortly after being relocated Maxson and his team found out that the West-tek staff were conducting their experiments on unwilling test subjects, this horrified them, and they soon went about interrogating the scientists to learn the full scope of what the government was attempting to do with the research they were conducting, doing this, Maxson learned of all the heinous things that the government wanted to do with said research.  Shortly after interrogations were complete Roger Maxson, now finding himself the leader of the military team he was sent with, ordered that all the scientists be executed. 

Roger Maxson let the united states know that he and those stationed under him were deserting the United States military, and found himself confused as to why no one had seemed to care or even know about it. Little did Roger know, the US was way too focused on escalating the conflicts with communist China, making them way too busy to spare any time at all for a measly deserter like him.

fun facts:

• The Great War began on October 23rd, 2077
• The date the the Brotherhood of Steel officially started operating under that name shortly after the great war. Making these power armor-clad soldiers one of the first groups of the wasteland to have roots directly from pre-war america. 

The soldiers and their families huddled together for safety and comfort as the world outside was catastrophically annihilated in a matter of hours. On October 25th 2077 Maxson sent one of his men named Platner, outside of the base to collect readings on the atmosphere, mainly to see if the air was radioactive though. Surprisingly, the Geiger counter showed no signs of life threatening radiation around Mariposa. 

Maxson ordered the base be ransacked and anything of use made ready to travel. Sealing the doors tightly, and burying the bodies of the executed West-tek Research team, those soldiers and their families followed their commander through the deserts of California in a journey rife with grief and misery, this journey would be forever chronicled by Brotherhood Scribes as 'The Exodus' which is thought of as a very significant part of the history of the Brotherhood.

                                    

Roger Maxsons logs
detailing the events at Mariposa.
Sorry for the lack of any quality, 
heres a link to the place I found it:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Captain_Maxson%27s_diary

The exodus, to explain it more in detail, was a journey that holds an almost religious significance within the Brotherhood due to it, in essence, being one big test of faith and will to survive. Most people generally would have given up being faced with multiple gangs of people, each intent on killing you, no not just robbing or taking from, but flat out killing you for everything and anything you may have. This was just one of the things that the followers of Maxson had on their minds as they drudged their way onward, to a military fallout shelter whose location was discovered in Mariposa.

Lost Hills

Believe it or not but there were still people with Maxson as he finally reached the entrance to Lost Hills. So many in fact, their descendants and the organization they belong to, The Brotherhood of Steel, has made its mark on an already voraciously scarred wasteland as the sole and only worthwhile proprietors of any and all forms of Technology. 

When making a home for themselves in Lost Hills, the Brotherhood of Steel found their purpose in safeguarding technology, especially the dangerous kinds from the denizens of the Wasteland, and secondly, rebuilding civilization on a fresh clean slate, one that will hopefully be absent of whatever subtle influences that caused the last one to become so corrupt and eventually kill itself. Technically this goal can sometimes be stretched to include the safety of those living in the wastes, since technically by trying to remove them from danger (by taking away what is the most dangerous) they are in essence protecting them. 

While the Brotherhood is primarily all about technology, they've grown recently to recruit wastelanders into their ranks, this practice is seen more in the east coast branch than in any others. The reasoning for this is because the person who would eventually become the elder of the East Coast branch was horrified by seeing slave children in 'the pit' which was a cesspool that youth should never be seen in. In violation of ideals that the Brotherhood of steel was built upon, then-future elder Lyons inducted the slave children as initiates into the brotherhood, making them the first full members not born into the brotherhood since its inception.

Eventually, after learning of the threat from the hostile and freakishly mutated denizens of the wastes, killing off all the mistakes that scientists were paid to make before the great war has been added to the goals list of the Brotherhood. 


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