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The Brotherhood of Steel (BoS) is a techno-religious organization, with roots in the U.S. military and government-sponsored scientific community from before the Great War. The BoS is mostly composed of the descendants of those military officers, soldiers, and scientists, but aside from some outlanders among their ranks, the BoS is as close to pure strain humanity (prime normals) as you're going to find outside of a Vault or the Enclave.

The ranks of the BoS is generally recognized as being composed of the best and the brightest, which means the BoS is a relatively small organization, at least compared to the New California Republic. They make up for this with their frightening arsenal of pre-War and post-War technology they have laser weapons, Power Armors, surgical enhancements, combat implants, and the Brotherhood Paladins who have the ability to erase an entire town from a map without a scratch. The vast majority of BoS members are born in the Brotherhood - they very rarely accept outsiders into their ranks. Those born in the Brotherhood that want to be neither Scribes, Knights nor Paladins are free to leave - the Brotherhood does not believe in forcing anyone to serve them against their will.

While they're generally not hostile to others without a good reason, members of the Brotherhood are not interested in justice for the obviously weaker and less fortunate around them. They largely focus on keeping their secrecy and preserving and developing technology, which, in many cases, they put above human life. Their motives are often unclear, and Brotherhood members are not people to be trifled with. It is safe to say, however, that if a group of Brotherhood Paladins appears to be helping some less fortunate people, their motives are not altruistic.



The Brotherhood doesn't like to share their choicest technological bits, despite the obvious benefits their technology could bring to the Wasteland. It's commonly accepted within the Brotherhood that the people of the Wasteland are not responsible enough to use (and maintain) all of the technology the BoS has at their disposal. They are known for trading some of their technologies with frontier communities and NCR states in exchange for food and other resources, but they keep the more sensitive technologies to themselves.

While they have great reverence for technology, most of the Brotherhood members have little regard for non-technical fields of knowledge (and even for non-combat technology). Even most of the Scribes don't care about history, and some Brotherhood of Steel Initiates don't even know who Roger Maxson, the founder of the Brotherhood, was.

The Brotherhood's attitude towards mutants ranges from dislike (e.g. in the case of ghouls) to outright hostility (in the case of super mutants). Early contact with the Master's super mutants was mostly hostile, and the BoS helped drive the majority of the mutant armies away from California. The BoS grew angered when various salvaging operations began in the Glow, a location which the BoS came to regard highly both for their fallen comrades and the pre-War technology there, with Dayglow ghouls at the forefront. Most BoS members see ghouls as filthy scavengers. In the years after the Master's defeat many super mutants settled peacefully among humans and the Brotherhood was no longer hostile to them.
Rules of the Brotherhood
1. No pointless posting; Ive had some people who think they can juss post random stuff BUT NO MORE
2. Respect the other guild members and their opinions
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