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Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel sourcebook

1. History

1.1 Rebellion at the Mariposa base

1.2 Nuclear armageddon

1.3 Arrival at the Lost Hill Bunker

1.4 The birth of the Brotherhood

1.5 The mutant threat

1.6 The brotherhood is split in two

1.7 The coming of the Enclave

1.8 The western brotherhood today

2. The western brotherhood

2.1 Organisation

2.2 Recruiting

2.3 Culture

2.4 Economics

2.5 Logistics

2.6 Spheres of influence

3. The eastern brotherhood

3.1 History

3.2 Recruiting

3.3 Culture

3.4 Economics

3.5 Logistics

3.6 Spheres of influence

4. Personalities

4.1 Historical personalities

Roger Maxson

Marion Vree

Simon Barnaky

4.2 Current personalities

Jared Arnson

Brent Anchor

Daryl Mckenzie

5. Traits

6. Brotherhood rank table

6.1 Western brotherhood

6.2 Eastern brotherhood

7. Perks

7.1 Perks available to both the western and eastern brotherhood

7.2 Perks available to the western brotherhood

7.3 Perks available to the eastern brotherhood

8. Vehicles

8.1 “Steel Eagle” Vertibird

8.2 Airship

8.3 APC

8.4 Scouter

9. The brotherhood in games

9.1 Incorporating the brotherhood in campaigns

9.2 Playing a brotherhood Player-Character

9.3 Playing brotherhood NPCs

Introduction

This document is intended as a source of information for players who are including the

brotherhood in their campaign, or are playing brotherhood characters. Much of the

information in this document is totally unofficial and original, due to a lack of good official

information about the brotherhood, and you may not agree with everything in this document

(in which case you are of course free to change it to your hearts content). I do however think

that where I have added new material, that it strengthens the atmosphere of the brotherhood,

rather than detracting from it. You will need a copy of the Fallout PnP rulebook by Jason

Mical (available at http://www.iamapsycho.com/fallout ) to play. Please not that this is only a

beta version of the sourcebook, released early because of the e-mails I keep getting wondering

when it will be finished. As you can see, the text sections are all finished, but images have not

yet been added and I hope to have the complete version ready within a month. If you have any

suggestions to make this book better please contact me at sebrushworth@hotmail.com . Have

fun!

1. History

(This is a heavily modified version of the “Brotherhood of Steel history” by Yamu, so all

credits for this go to him)

Rebellion at the Mariposa base

instant uproar. The soldiers could not

believe what was being done to their

brothers in arms and all order collapsed at

the base. The base commander locked

himself in his office and refused to come

out. The third world war broke out on the

same day as the soldiers discovered the

horrifying truth of the experiments, and

this only served to aggravate the soldiers

further.

The story begins in January 1 st , 2077, when

the government of the Unites States

transferred all research of the Forced

Evolutionary Virus (FEV-2) to the US

army installation at Mariposa in central

California. The virus was being studied for

its mutational properties, and the

possibility of using it to make soldiers not

only immune to bacteriological agents (as

had been the purpose of the Pan-Immunity

Virus referred to as PIV or FEV-1), but

stronger, tougher and faster.

In this chaotic and frenzied atmosphere the

soldiers looked to one man, captain Roger

Maxson, executive officer of the Mariposa

facility. Maxson at first could not believe

the experiments were being conducted,

then could not accept that they were being

sanctioned by the US government, but he

realised the need to bring some semblance

of organisation back to the base, and with

the colonel locked in his room and refusing

to do anything it was his duty to take

charge. The hate felt by the soldiers for the

researchers was growing exponentially as

they found out more and more about the

research and discovered the mutated

remnants of the human guinea pigs and on

October 12 th , two days after the research

The research was carried out under utmost

secrecy, so that only the base commander,

colonel Robert Spindel and the scientists

and technicians working on the project had

any knowledge of what was being done.

The researchers were using human

“volunteers” from among the ranks of

enlisted soldiers listed as missing in action.

For nearly eight months the scientists

managed to keep the research secret. Then

on October 10 th 2077 the base’s military

personnel somehow discovered what the

researchers were doing and there was an

was first discovered, captain Maxson had

to prevent one of his men from executing a

scientist.

scientists accounts of the research were so

remarkably similar, and by the time he

executed Erin Shellman, he finally

accepted that the vile research was being

sponsored by the government he and his

men had served.

In order to try to cool the situation down

Maxson decided that they should start

interrogating the scientists as to their work.

The first interrogation took place the next

day. The first to be interrogated was

Robert Anderson, one of the FEV chief

researchers. With very little prompting,

Anderson revealed all the details of the

research to captain Maxson and the other

interrogators. As Maxson was considering

what action to take next, Anderson,

perhaps sensing the danger of the situation

he was in, began crying and shouting over

and over that “they were just doing their

job”. Maxson, under extreme stress and

feeling intense disgust at the scientists

research ended Anderson’s hysterical

shouting with a single bullet to the head.

This act seemed to confirm the captain’s

position as leader of the renegade soldiers,

though he himself refused to believe that

this work could have been sanctioned by

the government that he had served so

faithfully. Outside the small base the war

was raging.

By October 20 th , the facility had long since

stopped responding to transmissions from

command and captain Maxson was

beginning to wonder why no-one was

being sent to investigate the sudden seize

in transmissions. On that day, captain

Maxson and his men declared themselves

officially seceded from the union. For two

days they waited, fearful and expectant,

knowing that they all faced imminent

court-martial. Nothing happened. Maxson

realised that the war must be facing some

pivotal moment, meaning that no resources

could be spared for domestic troubles.

Those two days, while Maxson and his

men waited for something, the short war

was in its final stages. Augmented by new

technology, the US military was driving

the Chinese all the way back and deep in to

their own country.

Nuclear armageddon

Two days later, on October 15 th , captain

Maxson made a final attempt to reach

colonel Spindel, and smashed through the

door to the colonel’s office just in time to

see the base commander blow his head off.

One day later, on October 23 rd , the world

ended. No one knows who fired first, but

in less than two hours, humanity had been

almost entirely wiped out. The base

personnel were in the process of

interrogating Leon VonFelden, head of the

FEV research project when all contact with

the outside was lost.

Captain Maxson was perceived by the men

as “one of them” following the execution

of Anderson, and they were becoming

increasingly loyal to him, perhaps because

they were all facing court-martial and

Maxson, being a brave and honest warrior,

was taking complete responsibility for the

recent chaos and their actions. In the days

that followed the colonel’s death, Maxson

continued to interrogate the scientists, each

interrogation invariably leading to

execution. As the interrogations wore on

Maxson became increasingly uncertain of

the government’s involvement, as the

Maxson, ardent in the belief that the

Chinese government, assuming it still

existed, would sooner rather than later train

its sights on the base, issued the following

directive the next day:

By my orders, as acting commanding

officer following the untimely death of

Colonel Robert Spindel during this time of

crisis, the full base security team has been

deployed to the security bunker at Lost

Hill.

This directive also includes the families of

the officers and enlisted men.

I convinced the men that we should bury

the scientists. I don't know why... perhaps

it was

to ease my conscience. I finally started to

believe their stories when the last one was

dying.

My God, what have I become?

Unless otherwise directed, from a proper

representative of the War Department, this

order will stand as written.

Operative 1: All military personnel, and

their families, are to vacate the base by

0800, 25 Oct 2077. All personnel,

travelling under command, will make their

way to Lost Hill base. No leave has been

granted.

Operative 2: All civilian personnel are

directed to remain at base, pending orders

from their legal command structure.

Operative 3: Equipment deemed necessary

to the survival of base military personnel is

to be immediately drawn from stores.

Proper authorisation will follow, time

permitting.

Operative 4: All codes of military justice

will be reinforced, on military personnel

and civilian personnel in joint military

operations.

Operative 5: Until such time as consistent

and authorised communication can be

established with the War Department,

these orders will have precedence over any

previously established orders.

The next day, October 27 th , the military

personnel and their families began the

arduous trek to the Lost Hill security

bunker. The journey was dogged both by

the fear of nuclear fallout and bands of

humans who desperately attacked the

group. Several of the soldiers lost family

members to these attacks, but none of the

attackers ever survived very long as they

were hunted down and executed by the

soldiers.

Arrival at the Lost Hill bunker

Finally, after several days the group

reached the Lost Hill bunker. Captain

Maxson was accepted almost unanimously

as the group’s leader. In the weeks and

months that followed order was restored

and by co-operating as a single unit they

were able to prepare themselves for the

dark future that lay ahead. Two months

after arriving at the Lost Hill bunker,

captain Maxson issued the following

decree:

Captain Maxson

24 Oct 2077

I am glad to see that we are finally settling

down, and wish to thank all of you for co-

operating under such trying circumstances.

Life will never, at least for many

generations to come, be the way it was

only a few short months ago. Civilisation

has collapsed and humanity has been

reduced to a fraction of its former glory.

We have all lost friends, family, brothers in

arms in this terrible war. At times, I know,

that loss can be almost unbearable. But we

are here, and we are alive, and most

important, we are prepared for the future.

The US government has been obliterated,

and as such we owe no duty to her any

more. We are all free. It is for this reason

The days following were accompanied by

an intermingled sense of relief and dread.

Readings indicated that the radioactive

fallout had not yet spread as far as the

base, and thus the primary hurdle in the

way of evacuation had been cleared. Some

vestige of order was restored as the

command was passed down, the necessary

equipment gathered, the final preparations

seen to. The day before the exodus was to

take place, Captain Maxson made this

strikingly evocative entry into his personal

log:

Oct. 26 2077

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