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History of the guild to October 22nd, 2004, told by General Ender.
With my leaving of the guild, I thought I'd tell it's story so far the best to my ability and briefly as possible through my point of view as your old General and creator of The Brotherhood Of Steel, leaving a story and legacy to present and future members to read and remember the guild's history. Please forgive me if I left something out, like I said, it's a brief overview of the history of the guild so far up to date.

One day, a man with ideas of something far greater than himself thought of a idea, something that he could mold using his own ideals and morals and create something far much greater than any guild that he's seen. On Sunday, December 14th, 2003, at 6:59am, he created this dream that he had and it all came together on that day. He had no friends to ask to join his new made guild, The Brotherhood Of Steel, he had to build it from the foundation up, from scratch and he knew that he'd make this happen and that his new born legacy would never die. Within a few days, he brought into the guild a few people, Wasted_years, his very first member, later to become the love of his life and a major pillar of support as he leads the guild on into the future. He also found a man named Seck, who would later become the first Paladin and also one of his dear friends. Both of those core members ambitious and wanting the guild to thrive and it did, it grew at least one member each day. The guild back then used the squad system, members getting assigned to squads of ten people, lead by a Paladin and a elite squad called Talon Squad lead by ender_169 himself, the General. The guild grew and grew, the whole time, ender throwing himself into his work for the guild, back then, it wasn't considered work, it was pleasure, it was his duty, he needed to do it because it was no one else to back him up and pick up the slack if he fell. Seck became the first Paladin and lead a squad named Dragons Hope Squad. Later, more people became Paladins, those people being Lord Shard, Xeon Sempai, lil_vampire_angel and alexisingrid. Those four was the core leaders for months. Other members came in, ones that are still impacting the guild even today, those being Kissamaki, Allectus, Slade226, egyptian_vampiress, MunkiHunter, Kiron Albrithe, Shani wants griphephtan, [Koji], and many more. A event happened at the end of February and the beginning of March, that almost tore the guild apart and almost made General Ender and Wasted_years quit. That event tore their souls out, it also made Lord Shard, alexisingrid, and Lord Ryu leave the guild, among with a few others. But not before Lord Shard tried a open mutiny and takeover of the guild, ender_169 and the Paladins of the time came up against Lord Shard and put his revolt down cold. Then General Ender came back, carrying the banner that said "The Brotherhood Reborn From The Ashes" and carried with him extreme spirit and determination to put the guild back together and restructure the very base of the guild, making it concrete where it could stand against the test of time, where it'll never fall, even if he himself left. Shortly after the event, Seck fell ill and had to leave the guild, to return two months later. But during the time of restructure, the guild was locked down to any new members, the structure of the guild rebuilt, changing from Squads to Divisions and giving the members job occupations to choose from to keep them busy. The restructuring and lockdown lasted around two months before opening back up and members joining. The restructuring took around 45 members with it, leaving about 24 members left in the guild, removing everyone who was inactive, a weak member, or who simply didn't care for ender anymore after what he did to Wasted_years back during that time. But ender went on, rebuilding his relationship and commanding the guild with a iron fist at the same time, it draining him and burning him out, but he kept on. After awhile, the duties and the guild started weighing down on him, he started to burn the last drags of energy and he turned his last bit of energy towards making the guild ready for the day where he might leave. Then the Gaia Guild Network came out and the old guild moved into it's own guild forum, giving birth to multiple threads and more ideas on how to make The Brotherhood even greater than what it already was. The setup took around a week, but after exhausting himself, ender got the moving to the new guild accomplished. The Paladins at the time being Wasted_years, Slade226, Kissamaki, Xeon Sempai, [Koji] and Allectus. The guild grew from around 40 members to 110 in around a week. But most of them joining just for the idea of it, to be a part of it and nothing more and never posting. Once again, a cleanout was in order, it brought the number down to about 80. Allectus was the first Paladin Lord, but then became inactive for a short time due to problems at home and was downgraded to Paladin once again, Wasted_years taking the place as Paladin Lord, thus, the reign of Ender with Wasted_years as his second in command came to be, trying to build the guild to a greater future. Then [Koji], Slade226, and Xeon Sempai retired. Xeon Sempai replaced by MunkiHunter and Slade226 replaced by Seck, after his return to the guild after two months. Malus Division led by [Koji] was broken up and it's members either removed or going elsewhere to other Divisions. The guild went well for awhile, until they found azureink, a traitor in their ranks that was stealing technology from the guild. The traitors that was part of his guild and The Brotherhood, who might be traitors was arrested and detained, all of them proven innocent except azureink, who returned the technology peacefully and resigning from the guild, without a casualty coming out of the whole stolen technology situation. Slade226 comes back to the guild and becomes the very first Scribe, a new rank that was never thought out until his return to the guild. Shortly after, ender retires to the rank of Elder, after being burned out completely and not being able to handle his duties no longer and turning his pursuits to what matters most to him, Wasted_years and being with her, sacrificing The Brotherhood Of Steel, the guild he created, loved, and watched grow. Both of them retiring to the rank of Elder until their possible return one day. Wasted_years being by ender_169's side since the day he created the guild and being by his side until his end with the guild. Both ender_169 and Wasted_years loved by all of the members and knowing that their fellow Brothers and Sisters will greatly miss them, but wishing for The Brotherhood Of Steel to carry on and grow, to make it through them leaving. But ender_169 was happy with the decision he made, to focus on his real life and pursuing love and happiness. In his last days with the guild, he made sure that it'd be safe, that it wouldn't fall apart without him, wrapping up all of the loose ends and handing over the guild to the new General that he selected, Allectus, leaving Allectus with a clean slate. Ender's love for the guild still stands to this day and wishes everyone who passes within these walls to carry on the legacy that he started. That is the history of the guild up until present day, the future will be decided under the leadership of the new General.

Fallout Story

The year is 2299. 120 years ago the world came to an end. The war, the final war of the old civilization, was over the last pitiful resources mankind could extract from a barren world of our own creation

Unlike the previous wars, this "Last World War" was fought with the very resources they hoped to gain: Uranium and Petroleum. This need would cause the European Union to disband back into a pack of squabbling nation states, it would cause the US to annex Canada, and for china to invade Alaska.

In the end, as predicted by thousands of paranoids and survivalists, the world ended in an Armageddon of nuclear fire. Europe blasted itself into a glowing pothole, India and Pakistan finally hit the button, China and the US (whose vaunted SDI systems barely managed to eliminate 1/4 of all missiles launched) vaporized each other, and the rest of the world soon followed suit falling into the disarray and chaos of devastating shortages, conventional warfare, and nuclear bombardment. By the end of the decade civilization was in ruins, leaving billions dead or dieing.

The past years have not been static. Many Vaults (large Fallout shelters built to hold thousands) have opened, while just as many have remained sealed. Those that survived have formed towns, governments, and raider gangs. Many small empires vying at a chance for supremacy attempt to recapture the grandeur of the before times struggle to gobble up the surrounding hamlets, towns, and city-states

Reserved.

Reserved.

Chapters
-Chap. 1: The Raid
-Chap. 2: Orphaned (in Progress)
-Chap. 3: Truth (not started yet)
-Chap. 4: TBA
-Chap. 5: TBA
-Chap. 6: TBA
-Chap. 7: TBA
-Chap. 8: TBA

Characters
-Steve: Leader of the raiders
-???: Main Character
-Mary: Mother of main character
-George: Father Of main character
-Billy: First friend in the orphanage.
-Harry: Foster father
-Melissa: Foster mother
-???: Orphanage owner
-O'Reilly: Police Cheif/ tells ??? of his parents murder
-"Ender": Leader of Brotherhood of Steel
-"EV": First friend in BOS
-"Wardog": Friend in BoS


.................."Help!!" a woman called. "Get over here," called the raider to the screaming woman, who was now on her knees. "This will teach you..." The raider grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to his feet. He kicked her in the stomach once and then again, and again. He did it an amount of twelve kicks. The woman was crying and was spitting blood on the ground. The raider took out a pistol and aimed it at the woman's head. "Wait, no i think ill make you suffer..." said the raider, aiming the pistol at her legs.

"Bam, Bam!" The raider pulled the trigger twice and shot both her legs under the knee. "AHH!!! My legs!" Cried the woman, both her kneecaps were blown out. The raider then pointed the gun at her head again. "Bam!" the woman instantly fell silent, except for a "Crack, Splat..." and her writhing stopping.

"Now to your husband..." said the raider. He walked over to his buddies holding a man down and beating on him relentlessly. "Hey boys, how is the poor b*****d?" inquisited the raider, the other raiders responded, "Hey Steve, We think he is ready for his.....'judgement' ha ha ha." Steve responded, "Good. Let's get to work." He took out a very crudely made knife, with rusty, jagged edges and a broken handle. Such were the weapons of the Drako-Jaroff Town Raiders, also known as the D.J.T.R. Steve held it to the man's throat and started cutting it but stopped when he had about half an inch cut out, dangerously close to the Jugular vein. He moved it to the man's abdomin and thought about what to do. He finally made up his mind to stab him in the stomach and did so wothout thought. The man curled into a ball and the raider placed the knife above his ear. He then jabbed it down through the ear of the man and pulled it out. The man stopped moving and twitched uncontrollably for 3 minutes.

"I think that is enough for now..." Said Steve, but his companions disagreed. "There is still a baby, don't you think we should kill him too?" Then Steve rebutted with, "No, I think he will live with trauma... Seeing his parents dead will be enough torture for him. Let's just grab the stuff and get out of here." They grabbed all valuable items from the house and took any and all jewelry off the parents along with any life savings and money from their pockets that they could find. What they didn't know was that there was a stach in the baby's crib, hiding under the mattress and in the wood. Also in the parents' bed was the rest of the stash, but since the raiders were in too much of a hurry, they didn't bother looking in the beds.

Mirikin returned to the library. This time there would be no casual looking around. He had a destination and a goal. First he disarmed himself and then went in through the metal doors. Once inside he took a moment to search for his destination. Quickly, he found the science section. Chemistry and engineering would be his best bets. He wanted to take something special on his first mission. Something uniquely his and something that would possibly save his a**.

He quickly skimmed through the books and pulled out a stack of them. Then, he sat down at a desk with the 5 or so books. He found some paper, suprisingly, and a pencil. They were both rare commodities where he came from. Not that the nomads needed any such things to survive. He'd spend the next few hours there reading, researching, and taking notes for later use.

*Enters the library scanning the many books and records...He knew that he had seen much of the wasteland in his bountyhunting days; but he knew that he hasn't seen EVERYTHING the endless sands could show him. He begins picking away at books about creatures of the wastes; about different organizations and cities, about the history before the war, and about numerous battles afterwards. Before long Raven realized that he had only seen but a small piece of a much larger puzzle that was the world.*