the brotherhood of steel

on January 7th 2077 a group of soldiers was assigned to a newly formed meriposa military base in California. the were there to over see an unknown project. that summer the team figured out what was going on in mariposa. there were prisoners of war kept and used to test the forced evolutionary virus. the F.E.V was made to create a race of genetically superior people, instead it resulted in terrible mutations and awful creatures. this lead to the breakdown and suicide of the bases commanding officer. without out any leader the men turned to commander Roger Maxon. Maxon started interrogations on the scientists he was sent to protect. he was horrified at what they had done. he then executed them for there crimes against humanity. on October 20 he declared he would leave the american military. this would set in motion the creation of the brotherhood of steel. after the bombs dropped Maxon led his men away from meriposa. they took all the supplies and weaponry they could carry. in the brotherhoods history books this point in time was called the exodus. they would spend years fighting their way through the wastes. eventually they came across lost hills, a government fallout shelter that had went unused. over the next few decades Maxon built up the brotherhood and formed a sort of internal government. when Maxon died in 2135 his son Maxon the second took control of the brotherhood as high elder. under new leadership the brotherhood expanded their influence throughout america. by 2155 the brotherhood came across a raider group named the vipers. these men were wiped out shortly but due to his overconfidence Maxon the second was killed. Rodgers son john was appointed high elder. despite the lost of high elder maxon this allowed the surrounding area to trade with the brotherhood. in 2161 the brotherhood first layed their eyes on a supermutant. a creature made from the F.E.V. this horrified the brotherhood an they grew crazy in their goal to destroy these mutants. the following year the vault dweller arrived at lost hills. they gave him an impossible task. to their surprise he completed the task and then informed them of the master. the master is terrible man who used his army of supermutants to try to make every human  a mutant. they along with the vault dweller destroyed the master and scattered their army. there began to be people who belived the brotherhood should share their tech. these people where sent out to differernt parts of the wastes. they then came across a new enemy, the enclave. the enclave was later destroyed by a new hero named the chosen one. this ended all threats to the brotherhood. by 2231 the brotherhood tried expanding throughout america even more which eventually lead to hem being hated by the new california republic. on the east coast they fought against the remnants of the enclave and eventually relocated their h.q to a place called the Citidel in Washington dc. form this a group of members lead by Arthur Maxon headed out to the commonwealth to fight against a new threat the institute.