Fallout: What is the Brotherhood of Steel?

It’s an understatement to say that Jonathan Nolan has fantastically captured the unique world of the Fallout video game license with wit and intelligence. Between its dark humor, retro-futurism, and characterization of its characters set in a post-apocalyptic world as fascinating as it is ruthless, the series is a legitimate hit on Amazon Prime.

Once again, after The Last of Us, that it is possible to unite both unconditional fans of the license, for which they willingly make themselves absolute (and sometimes excessive…) guardians, as well as laymen who can fully indulge themselves. You will be by this attractive world, without them knowing about it harmful. It is the science and art of writing…

Preservation of old, advanced technologies

In the series, you clearly understand that the Brotherhood of Steel, to which the character Maximus (Aaron Moten) belongs, plays a very important role in the Fallout universe. This isolationist, quasi-religious, and military organization with destructive firepower, whose roots stem from the American military and scientific community, has been in effect since day one of its license.

Devoting its existence to maintaining advanced technologies and regulating their use, it believes that a humanity destined for self-destruction cannot be trusted.

Divided into chapters (or cells) operating in the former United States, the Brotherhood of Steel was founded after the Great War in 2077 by a US Army officer named Roger Maxon.

That year, the United States Department of Defense ordered a group of soldiers to protect a group of scientists working at a military base in Mariposa, California. Scientists have experimented with the Forced Evolution Virus (called FEV), the origin of Fallout’s super mutants.

When the soldiers discovered what these experiments entailed, Captain Roger Maxon took it upon himself to interrogate and punish these scientists. When Maxon finally learns that these monstrous experiments were in fact government-ordered, he and his men are separated. Three days later, on October 23, 2077, the Apocalypse (Great War) began and destroyed the planet.

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After surviving the cataclysm, Maxon led his people and their families into exile, eventually settling in southeastern California. Underground bunker shelter. Over the years, refugees and ex-soldiers have expanded and remodeled the bunker, creating a base of weapons and technology in the now radiation-ravaged wasteland.

Through decades of scouting and gathering new recruits, launching expeditions into the Mojave Desert and the Appalachian region, the Brotherhood of Steel gradually grew. In the 2150s, the Brotherhood began to expand its influence into the surrounding regions, quickly establishing itself as one of the greatest powers in the postwar West Bank region.

Its very hierarchical organization (chieftain, knight, scribe, paladin, chief elder…), its ideology/doctrine (so-called The chain that binds, that is, “the chain of connection”), did not develop overnight, but gradually. Maxon realized that the Steel Brothers needed a solid foundation of ideals if he was to survive in this devastated and hostile new world.

Between 2231 and 2274, Roger Maxon’s successors as leader of the Brotherhood of Steel led the organization into a series of sporadic conflicts with the armies. The New Republic of California (also known as the RNC), was founded in 2186.

Although the Brotherhood has a technological advantage over its adversaries, particularly through powerful armor, it cannot gain an advantage over the NCR’s vastly outnumbered troops. in FineA failure that did not prevent him from settling in Boston in 2287 on the East Coast. It was also the area where players traveled in the game Fallout 4.

When the Fallout series begins, in the year 2296, the organization is already over 200 years old. But he is no longer seen at the height of his full power as before. Unless, of course, there are no surprises in season 2; The series was intended to be set in the legitimate Fallout universe.