Eastern Brotherhood (Fallout Alternate History)

The Eastern Brotherhood of Steel, officially known as the Order of the Brotherhood of Steel in the East, is a splinter group of the Brotherhood of Steel born out of what they call the Great Schism: an ideological disagreement culminating into an exodus of dissenting brothers. The Eastern Brotherhood differentiates itself from their western counterparts in many ways, principally its acceptance of non-humans into their ranks and their sharing of technology with outsiders. The Eastern Brotherhood presides over a substantial empire in the midwest

The Brotherhood of Steel in the Midwest is a vast empire born out of a splinter faction of the original Brotherhood of Steel. It is variously referred to as the Eastern Brotherhood[2] or the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel, a designation created by fans to differentiate it from the Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel,[3] and later reused by Modiphius for the same purpose in their battle game.

This Brotherhood began its life as a group of stranded airship survivors. After long fights with countless raider bands, a warlike technological cult known as the Reavers, and a super mutant army led by mad Paladin Latham, in 2198, the Brotherhood eventually faced their greatest enemy – a robotic army commanded by the Calculator, the mad cyborg of Vault 0 in Colorado. The robotic army was defeated and the Calculator was either destroyed or merged with a new mind, that of the Warrior or that of Simon Barnaky, giving birth to a vast empire laying claim to lands from Colorado Springs in the west to the shores of Lake Michigan in the east.

The Brotherhood of Steel (commonly abbreviated to BoS) is a techno-religious[4] military order located in the West and operating across the ruins of post-War North America with its roots stemming from the United States Armed Forces and the government-sponsored scientific community from former Mariposa Military Base before the Great War, dedicated to controlling and regulating technology in the wasteland.[5][6] Though small, the Brotherhood has been an influential group in the history of the wasteland, first as a survivalist group, then a major research and development house, then finally as the enemy of the New California Republic, fighting a bitter war for control of technology in New California. Having suffered defeats in the West, the Brotherhood would be strengthened on the Eastern reaches of the continent, under Elder Arthur Maxson.[7]