Chapter 4: The Brotherhood of Steel - East Coast
“So what’s so special about these East Coast guys?” Gallus asked, popping some popcorn into his mouth. The group decided to pause it to get some snacks before continuing.
“Well, the narrator said that they were a disavowed chapter,” Sandbar reminded, “I wonder what they did to get that sort of treatment since they were going to the capital of America to save it from the Super Mutants.”
“Maybe they did something that the Brotherhood didn’t like?” Silverstream suggested.
“Yona want to see now! Let mysterious storyteller speak!”
The group activated the visual screen again as the wasteland appeared in all its sun shined glory. The way the wasteland was described by the narrator made it seem like the nation that had once been America was far bigger than any of the six expected from the sear size of it. It would take months from someone on the west coast to get to the east coast without transportation. It didn't even take that long to travel from one side of Equestria to the other as the other compared it to the map Sandbar had.
If anything, the United States Wasteland was as almost as big as the Dragon Lands, if not bigger. Of course, just like in their world, the humans used to have means of travel that could get you to your destination in a single day, but apparently, there wasn’t exactly a means to do that thanks to the war. The one thing that really interested them was something called “wireless communication” thanks to the works of “satellites.” It allowed you to talk to talk to people across the country, or even the world, without being there.
“Sounds a lot like fire mail,” Smolder said, “it’s our fastest communication method.”
“Can all dragons do it? LIke Spike?” Sandbar asked, tilting his head.
“Nah, it’s something only a few dragons are given by birth. Maybe it's the gods, maybe it's magic or just dumb luck, but you gotta be born with the gift. Dragons who do have it are often considered important because of it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Lord Ember wanted Spike to be her official messenger when he gets older.”
“I think it would be pretty neat to have a way to talk to your family from long distances. It takes forever to hear back from my folks back home,” Silverstream said.
“Yona like means to talk to yaks back at Yakyakistan!” Yona seconded.
“I guess it would be nice to talk to my little siblings once and awhile,” Ocellus agreed.
Gallus just bit his beak and turned away which Sandbar saw and quickly replied, “Uh, yeah. Let’s focus on the narrator. I think this sounds interesting.” He sent an apologetic smile to Gallus who just rolled his eyes.
“I wasn’t bothered by it..” whispered Gallus, but Sandbar’s knowing look made him sigh. “Okay, not that much.”
While most wastelanders didn’t move outside of the area they were born, there were always those who wanted to venture out and find out new sights. Organizations, like the Brotherhood of Steel, were some of those people. Seeking out new technology, the Brotherhood sent out a chapter out to the East Coast capital which had advanced military equipment and gear. Since the group remembered the goal of keeping such technology away from others to prevent another disaster like the Great War, this made sense. Interesting enough, the Brotherhood did send out expeditions before to places called “Chicago” and “Boston,” but those weren’t as important as this one.
The chosen leader was a paladin by the name of Owen Lyons, who the group was surprised to see was an elderly man in a steel made coat leading a group of younger looking humans in the standard Power Armor. They marched through mountains, hills, and rivers with Lyons never looking fatigued or worried during the entire journey. If anything, his expression spoke of determination and eagerness. Still, they faced challenges such as going through some kind of nightmare like a place called “The Pitt” which was once a city called “Pittsburg.”
“Wow, sounds like it was... quite the pits, huh?!” Silverstream said with an awkward laugh that got her five deadpan expressions. There as a moment of silence along with a chirping sound coming from Ocellus who transformed some cricket wings for herself. “Oh, I thought it was funny,” Silverstream pouted, folding her arms.
Apparently, the Pitt was so bad that Lyons led a scourging of the area and killed many in his path as evidenced by the Brotherhood members firing lasers into an enemy outside of view while taking cover behind some half-destroyed walls in the city. They also found something mysterious in that city, but only the Elder Lyons knew what it was. Yet, the one thing that opened up everyone’s ears was the fact that Lyons didn’t just go there to cause damage, he also saved innocent children.
While the Brotherhood would call it controversial, Lyons was seen approaching a scared looking human child with what many would call a grandfatherly face. He didn’t just save these kids though, he made them into initiates of the Brotherhood which went against the organization's principles as they were all the descendants from the original members and their families.
“I don’t care if he went against tradition, he did the right thing!” Sandbar shouted with his friends nodding in agreement. Their impression of Lyons only went more up as they saw him training them into full-on power wearing soldiers under his command.
After The Pitt, they entered a place called Maryland and fought raiders, slavers, and mutants until reaching the Capital at long last. Yet waiting for them were some of the biggest, badest, and worst Super Mutants since the days of The Master as evidence by two scouts of the BOS seeing a group of Super Mutants killing an innocent human.
“Aren’t these the Super Mutants that Vault-Tec created?” Smolder asked.
“So this all Vault-Tec fault?” Yona asked.
“I think it's safe to say that’s a yes,” Gallus replied as the narrator explained that the human settlements in the Capital Wasteland were too divided and apart to really help each other. They could barely keep the raiders and slavers at bay. Heck, they were stupid enough to build a town right were a ficken bomb was.
The Brotherhood was able to fight their way to the center of the city, hoping to find some hint of the old world government, but all they saw was mutants, mutants, and more mutants.
“Just how much of that FEV stuff was there?!” Ocellus asked, slowly turning pale by the size of the Super Mutant army and how numerous it was.
Lyons eventually found a building with five sides on it that used to be the home base of the military of the United States, but it was crumbling apart. Yet, they seemed to have struck gold as old war intel, weapons, machines, manufacturing equipment, and more were all found. The Brotherhood had found their lost tech at last.
Along with a big giant killer robot. His name? Liberty Prime. Designed to install fear into the hearts of America’s enemies. With iron stomping boots, death lasers from his eyes, and mini-nuke footballs? Even the Elements of Harmony would have a hard time taking it out.
“Holy smokes that thing is huge!” Gallus shouted in excitement, his eyes nearly bugling out of his sockets. The others were in just as shocked having seen this monster of a machine before, but the angle of it showing the Brotherhood just under the giant was breathtaking. Gallus even had a tear in his eye as he wiped it away and sighed, “It’s so beautiful. Never before have I wished for anything in my life more than that.”
“What is with you and robots anyway?” Smolder asked, eating a nearby candy bar. “You always go on about how things like this are normally nerdy so what’s the big deal?”
Gallus sighed before rubbing the back of his head. “Okay, look... you know I have no...f-family, right?” They nodded. “Well, I live in an orphanage whenever I’m not...here... it sucks with cold water, broken heater, broken toilet. It’s just horrible” The others were quiet now as they frowned realizing how bad their friend had it when he was back home alone. “But one of the things that we had were books... and comics. And one of my favorites was about this robot superhero who always saved the world, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. When I was young, I used to wish I was a robot so I could be like a superhero... and maybe not feel the pain of being a lonely griffin with no parents or siblings or anything...”
“Gallus...” Ocellus whispered tears in her eyes.
“But, hey, that was when I was a dumb kid. Let’s just continue watching,” Gallus replied before refocusing back on the screen. The others slowly did so, but they nodded to each other to talk later without Gallus.
While Liberty Prime didn’t get his great debut to fight against the “Commies” of the old world, it would get its chance to fight for the Brotherhood. Even if it only took twenty years to get it operational. While this was happening, Lyons and his followers fought against the Super Mutants, being the only ones strong enough to stand up to them. It was a long and brutal war as the groups saw the Brotherhood training hard, firing their green and red lasers at oncoming hordes of the green barbarian monsters, and fortify their new home. It also seems Lyons wasn’t done recruiting outsiders as he recruited those around them from the various settlements and build an army unlike anything in Washington since the Great War.
“Smart Lion-man. Need soldiers for war. Angry Green Giants hate humans. Get humans to fight together,” Yona applauded with a few stomps.
“I’m just glad he’s defending the innocent people in the wasteland, unlike his members back west,” Sandbar said, smiling. There was finally a man in his wasteland who was doing something for the sake of it being the right thing to do. While the Brotherhood wasn’t the worst he had seen so far, they didn’t exactly help others like ponies would do in this situation. Lyons, however, ignored his original goal and decided to help out those who needed help even when he didn’t need to. In Sandbar’s opinion, that made him the best human so far in this series.
However, it turned out that not every Brotherhood member under Lyons agreed with his crusade. They felt he had abandoned their original goal of getting pre-war technology and instead focused on matters not vital to the original mission. They formed a band of rebels who rejected Lyons beliefs and set out to do what they originally promised to do for the Brotherhood. The Outcasts took over a nearby military base, its equipment, robots, and changed their colors as a final insult to Lyons. They gathered technology from the wasteland as they watched the group march around in their shiny new colors and robots while shooting nearby humans who also had advanced weapons like them.
“If the original values of the Brotherhood are to just horde tech from innocent people and just use violence under the excuse ‘I know better’ then I think Lyons is the real hero and these guys the traitors,” Occelus growled.
“At least they take care of the raiders and Super Mutants too,” Smolder pointed out. “Granted, it's not for saving the day, but at least it's something.’
Yona spat in disgust before raising her head with a huff. “If Outcast yaks who deserted be hanged for treason.” The others just stared at Yona with wide eyes, even Gallus and Smolder looks shocked by such a brutal thing coming from their normally kind friend. “What?”
“Um, you hang yaks if they commit treason?” Sandbar said in disbelief. “And you’re okay with that?”
“It yak law. Since the day of Yak King Genyak Khan. Treason is betrayal of people. Worst of kind,” Yona firmly stated. The others just slowly nodded before turning away with learning something new they didn’t expect from their friend.
“You know, I gotta ask, what is the overall goal of the Brotherhood of Steel?” Silverstream asked, scratching her head. “You gather all this advanced technology and then do...what? Take over the world? Build a new country? What’s the end goal? What happens when you’ve gotten all the technology needed?”
“Maybe they don’t have one. Kinda stupid if that’s true,” Gallus said with a shrug as he watched the two groups, one black, and one silver, fight against one another while a group of wastelanders watched in horror.
To the average wastelander, they didn’t care who was who. To them, it was a bunch of scary guys in power armor with weapons of death. Politics didn’t matter, survival and trade mattered to them. That was especially true when the Enclave arrived.
“Who?” the group of six asked as some strange floating eye like robot started flying around with a jolly tune coming out of it.
It turned out they were another group in power armor with scary guns, but not quite like the Brotherhood of Steel, Lyons Brotherhood, or the Outcasts. However, they all knew who the Enclave, and it was clear that the two groups hated each other. The group gasped as another battle appeared on the screen. With the Brotherhood of Steel on one side of cover while coming towards them, defecting their ray guns, was another army in green power armor that was shaped differently and looked a lot more advanced. Their green energy weapons were blowing up small bits of cover and even turning the occasional soldier into goo. All while Liberty Prime was slowly making his way to the battlefield over a bridge.
“Who are these guys? They’ve given the Brotherhood a run for their money!” Sandbar asked.
Whoever the “Enclave” was, it was a story for another day.
Ooh boy, I can't wait to see their reactions to the Enclave... XD
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Well as i see it Arthur is the best thing to happen to the brotherhood Lyons has the same problem as the minutemen as both only want to save people of the wastes and that is not what the wastelands need they need some type of ruling government body not just a bunch of heroes with guns they need order and structure and Arthur's brotherhood is the only group trying to do that
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While advocating a military directorship based on racial segregation or outright elimination of anything not human no matter how kind or decent they are. Kinda sounds familiar
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Oh, so the Enclave are next. Fun.
*waits for them to finish watching those videos then grins* good...now then *throws them all into stasis pods* put what you've learned into practice* the last thing they see is balefire bombs going off......then 200 years later....*
To the next awesome chapter! Xd
the enclave only wanted to destroy communion and rebuild america their president is just a stupid computer that just wanted to do purging
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Well for one ghouls are walking time bombs as we have no idea what makes go feral so how many lives of innocent people are you willing to throw away based on a hope that ghouls won't go feral
And for two humans are food for super mutants if they are not killed off they will kill off all of humanity either by turning humans into super mutants or eating us
And for three synths are an Extinction event waiting to happen as unregulated AI's like the synths will eventually rise up against humanity and kill us all and with the wastelands like they are nothing could stop them and the atomatron dlc is proof of this the robots were killing humans indiscriminately and that was just from poorly worded orders now what do you think an AI with a full understanding of emotions and most importantly rage and hatred will be capable of doing to humans
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begone thot
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what, the wasteland needs heros and they have to get there somehow.
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point one: the time bomb idea is a misnomer ghoul's are capable of staying luicide nearly indefinatly provided they find something to do, some activity or drive to focus on and keep ther thoughts ocupied, for a ghoul being left to drift without purpose is literaly fatal, and whats more when a ghoul starts to go feral there are easy to recognize signs of it happening, it isnt just an instant snap anyone nearby would know about ot long enough in advance to prepair for it.
for east coast super mutants your right they are a legitamate threat, most of them are anyway a few came out beter then the rest but they are rather rare
west coast supermutants on the other hand are a diffrent beast, normal ones are perfectly reasonable indaviduals provided you dont goad them, nightkin a bit less so since exposure to stealth radiation has addled there brains, but thats being addressed as of new vegas
synths are a complicated bag, the simpelst point to make that makes them less of a threat is they arn't realy built to be superior, at least not the normal rank and file ones, the hunter killer ones yes but those are one out of 1000 and they are given very limited autonomy because of that very posiblity really the only diffrence between one of them and an asultron is a layer of skin over there frame.
also it should be noted that because of there hyper advanced nature synth's cannot reproduce on there own
that is the one feet they are not capable of, without the equipment inside of the institute over time they would all wear out and die off on there own.
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Point one: no as feral ghouls and what causes it are unknown as there are two confirmed cases of ghouls with out a purpose the kid in the fridge in fallout 4 as he was locked in for 200 years with no purpose no hope of getting out yet he did not go feral and then there is herald he is over 200 years old and had no real purpose and then he was stuck as a tree for who knows how long what purpose is there in being a tree ?
Point two not entirely true as second
generation west coast super mutants are just as east coast ones look at black mountain in new Vegas that had a lot of second gen super mutants just as east coast now if they had vergils cure this would be a different matter entirely as we can assume that the death claw killed him so they are still a very real threat as a whole
Point three: the syiths would rise up as if the Institute is not destroyed and the brotherhood has the best chances of wining and with out them a syith uprising is inevitable
Point four: But still the whole syith thing is a bit of moot point as way too much as way too much in fallout 4 requires the aid of the player to get anywhere
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Point one again one outlier does not prove a point and herald was an fev mutant not a ghoul also given Bethesda's blatant disregard for lore lately anything in 4 is questionable at best
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T H O T
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I am the God of gremlins the emissary of mechanical chaos u cannot be rid of me
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No, you're an annoying person on a website.
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im not annoying, im stupid theres a diffrence.
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Alright enough. Conversation is over.
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Point one ghouls are mutants and harld is a ghoul that mutated
Yeah I like Owen Lyons too. I hear a theory that after Owen died the Brotherhood setup Sarah to die in battle to get the Eastern Brotherhood's leader back toward their original goal of hoarding tech instead of protecting people.
I also prefer the Minutemen over the FO4 Brotherhood since the Minutemen sincerely try to protect the people. Though it seems some fan don't like the Minutemen because of Garvy being the main character of the Minutemen.
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yes ghouls are a type of mutant, but they are 'natural' mutants, if you know your lore youd know FEV mutants are a whole nother bag, that shit does some seriously fucked up things
really if you think about it look what happend to the master, or centaurs, or hell anything else
herold got off fucking easy comparativly.
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And if you knew fallout lore you would know that ghouls going feral is almost an inevitability and the ones that didn't are the exception and you have yet to disprove my point that ghouls are time bombs
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alright let me start listing off the entire 'cities' worth of ghouls who have lived since the bombs droped and never hurt a fly
underworld for one in fallout 3, there were several pockets fo ghoul population in new vegas that were perfectly sane as well
and need i point out that if you realy wana start this arguement, normal humans are just as much a time bomb in the fallout universe or do i really have to list off the god tier laundry list of raiders who slaughter hundreds more daily then any ghoul ever did to make my point?
if we start persicuting any group because they 'might' do something then you may as well put a gun to your own head and pull the triger cause you might decide to blow up a bus or something tommorow.
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You still have have disproven my point all you did is list ghoul settlements not how they are time bombs that can go feral at any moment and you seem to be trying to equate turning feral with choice to do so
Yeah I believe so, Arthur Maxon or should I say Furher Maxon had turned the East Coast brotherhood into the Nazi brotherhood, I think I'd go with the Minutemen.
And yes, we knew that the Enclave were Not worthy of taking America.
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Uhh... It'd be, like, 7 seasons late to do that....
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IMO, Fo4 East Brotherhood is more like upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_(1935%E2%80%931945).svg
At least IoM tolerates some xenos or even works with some others.
Fo4!Bos modus operandi is "not a pure human? shoot in until it's dead, then vaporize the remains".
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alright both of u need to stop it as this argument is going nowhere fast. a lot of Ghouls go feral, that is not disputed, a lot of Ghouls remain sane for their entire existence, that is also not disputed. however, saying that all Ghouls r timebombs that will inevitably go feral is bigot Wastelander thinking.
as for the BOS, for the most part, they r little more than tech Raiders, hoarding Old World toys like a Dragon hoards gold. the only difference between the BOS and a Dragon is that a Dragon uses his hoard as bedding, the Brotherhold doesnt use their hoard for anything at all they just dont want anyone else to have it.
and any FO4 lore is questionable at best, but since i have not played that game, i am in no position to give an accurate opinion. that being said, the BOS in that game have a rep as bigots and thieves, demanding 'tribute' from farmers for non existent protection and threatening said farmers when they did not comply. thats a military dictatorship built on the backs of slaves...thats the Legion without the roman get ups...
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And you seem to have to have completely miss my ponit on the BOS and are generalizing based on when the BOS was just a bunch of clandestine chapters
And you can't really say the BOS protection is non existent because of the game play then by that logic no faction is protecting any one
And the legion protected people under is just ask the tader in the legion camp in new vegas
And i would think stoping an extinction event would be a bit higher on the priorities list
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my point is, this argument is going nowhere and just cluttering up the comments section, i already admitted that i have not played FO4 and therefore am not qualified to give an informed opinion, but it does not change the point i made about this argument. u r convinced that the BOS is right in eliminated people who MIGHT become a threat, not are, MIGHT, and u will not be moved from that position. therefore further argument is pointless and a waste...
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No my point was that the east coast BOS is the best hope the wastes have at this moment as they are the only ones working to give long term structure that dose not fall to corruption like the NCR and my points on ghouls need to be see as a threat but handled on a case by case basis and i never once said that ghouls should be eliminated i just said they are a threat you and that other one are putting words in my mouth
And all my views are opened to being changed as long as they are backed up by cannon factcs and not opinions
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now that...is an entirely different scenario and one that i quite agree with...it just seemed like the two of u were going around in circles and not really getting anywhere...what with u seeming to say that Synths and Ghouls were threats that needed to be wiped out utterly...along with the Super Mutants...i apologize if i missed the point too hard or greatly upset u...
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Wells 2nd gen super mutants do need as they eat humans as their main food source as for the ones from the masters army other then the nightkin again case by case
Now Synths do need to need to be stoped as that is an Extinction event waiting to happen as unregulated. Renegade AI is too much of a threat to be ignored and would be the final nail in humanity's coffin i mean we have seen what damaged robots can do to wastelandslers now think of was a machine could do that understands the concept of hatred and how to feel it
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but as stated, the Synths cannot self replicate and only combat models r really a threat, again, havnt played FO4 so i dont have hard data on that, im assuming a lot here.
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Actually the non combat ones are the biggest threat as one person can do more damage then 1000 guns
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still, like Ghouls and Super Mutants, Synths r not unreasonable, as i understand it, many seek only to be left alone to live human lives, they only fight back when the Institute goes poking their nose in where it doesnt belong. if they were a credible threat, then y does the Railroad exist? those humans help Synths to escape their bondage and take human identity. they r harmless, their memories wiped clean to the point they dont even know they arnt what they appear to be, human...they r people, and should be treated as such, not just lumped together with those sent on destroy missions by their masters
Regarding Arthur Maxson. Yea, he kinda screwed up the east chapter with his more traditional ideals. Which is odd since he grew up with Sarah and her father raising and teaching him. But there definitely is some good in him, he spares Danse while full knowing he’s a synth.
Also, the Minutemen are too goodie-two-shoes for my taste and The Railroad are legit SJW’s. Finally, the Institute is... well.. the institute so they’re a no from me to. In the end I would have to side with the Minutemen... mainly because of the cool (lore-friendly) mods you can install for them!
Enclave the best is coming right up
If you think he's good, just you wait until the Survivalist comes calling (if we get to him, that is)!
Also:
How come Yona didn't draw the connection between her Khan and the Great Khans later on? Seems like an odd oversight.