When Albert Cole visited shortly thereafter to seek membership, he was sent to the Glow to recover the records of rogue Sergeant Dennis Allen's ill-fated expedition there in an effort to get rid of him. In 2161, the Brotherhood encountered a super mutant corpse and brought it back to Lost Hills for study. Head Paladin Rhombus launched a full scale campaign to hunt down the Vipers in revenge, which led to Brotherhood scouts encountering the Hub and opening trade relations with them. In 2155, the elderly Maxson II was killed by a poison arrow during an attack on a Viper encampment and was succeeded by his son, John Maxson. The Brotherhood continued to expand under his rule and assert their power to become one of the major factions of the West Coast. In 2135, Roger Maxson died of cancer and was succeeded by his son, Roger Maxson II, as the new Elder. The Brotherhood used a satellite to contact former United States Army remnants in Appalachia to form a new chapter in West Virginia, but they were quickly destroyed by the Scorchbeasts inhabiting the area. Using this as their new base, Maxson formed the Brotherhood of Steel to rebuild civilization at any cost and prevent humanity from using technology to cause further destruction. After checking to make sure there was no radiation making the outside unlivable, Maxson and his men ventured into the desert on October 25.īy November 2077, the survivors of Maxson's group had reached Lost Hills, a government bunker on the outskirts of Bakersfield, CA. While the FEV was released into the wasteland, the soldiers and their families inside Mariposa survived the bombing.

On October 23, 2077, the Great War between the United States and China led to the virtual destruction of Earth. All of the soldiers brought their families into the base for protection. As morale in the base collapsed and the unethical experiments turned chaotic, Maxson took charge, executed the scientists, and on October 20 declared his desertion from the United States military. Maxson was horrified to discover that the experiments being conducted by West-Tek involved using military prisoners as unwilling test subjects for the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV). On January 7, 2077, the facility was relocated to the Mariposa Military Base. In 2076, Captain Roger Maxson of the United States Army was assigned to monitor a West-Tek facility working on a government contract in California. After becoming a quasi-religious organization dedicated to preventing technology from falling into the wrong hands, their conflict with the New California Republic led to the western chapter being almost completely wiped out. The Brotherhood of Steel originated on the West Coast as an outgrowth of the United States military on the advent of the Great War.

Brotherhood of steel chapters