Capital Brotherhood of Steel
BREVE HISTORIA
On the East Coast, the Capital Wasteland division of the Brotherhoodestablished a base called the Citadel, built into and beneath the ruins of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. This faction is led by the idealistic ElderOwyn Lyons who decided to make the protection of the human inhabitants of the Capital Wasteland from super mutants and other threats his top priority, instead of the acquisition and preservation of technology.
While Lyons is officially recognized by the ruling council at Lost Hills as the leader of a Brotherhood faction, because of his changed priorities he receives no support from California and his faction, for all intents and purposes, is independent. Without reinforcements from the West Coast, Lyons has been forced to recruit locally, but most new wastelander conscripts are overeager, unskilled, or both, and as a result their survival rate is atrocious. Elder Lyons’ daughter Sarah commands her own elite squad, Lyons’ Pride. These soldiers help preserve the Capital Wasteland by holding back the super mutants, who tend to remain in the urban ruins of Washington, D.C.
As the war with the Super Mutants intensifies, an East Coast faction of the Enclave, whose broadcasts have been heard for years on wasteland radios, suddenly and violently makes themselves known. In an opening move they seize the Jefferson Memorial’s «Project Purity», and then begin a systematic purge of any and all mutated life in the Capital Wasteland. At first favoring caution, Elder Lyons is soon forced to engage the Enclave in a full-scale battle when the Enclave takes control of Vault 87’s G.E.C.K. and comes dangerously close to activating «Project Purity».
With the aid of the Lone Wanderer, and Liberty Prime, the Enclave is ousted from the Jefferson Memorial and thrown into disarray. After the events of Broken Steel, and the defeat of the Enclave remnants, the Capital Wasteland chapter has become as powerful and well-equipped as their sister chapters back west.
There are members of Lyons’ expeditionary force to the East Coast who preferred to stay faithful to the Brotherhood’s original goals of locating and preserving technology and knowledge. These members of the Brotherhood left the Citadel to take up residence in Fort Independence, and stylized themselves as theBrotherhood Outcasts[3]. In addition to carrying out Lyon’s original orders, the Outcasts are also trying to re-establish contact with the western Elders, and have Lyon’s placed in front of a firing squad because Lyons believes he has a responsibility to protect the people of the Capital Wasteland from the Super Mutant threat. His knights have forgone the mission to recover new technology, and instead acts as a kind of security force.
