As one of the largest forces in the radiation wasteland, the Brotherhood of Steel is mainly composed of scientists and military members funded by the pre-war government. Both its numbers and strength are far inferior to what it is today two hundred years later.
However, after the outbreak of nuclear war, the Brotherhood of Steel not only broke away from the military to which it was originally affiliated, but also developed a unique set of purposes.
In the view of the Brotherhood members, the cause of the outbreak of the world war was mankind's over-reliance on technology, and the collapse of the postwar civilized order was leading the precarious mankind into the abyss. Therefore, both emotionally and logically, the Brotherhood of Steel cannot sit idly by and watch the slow death of human civilization.
Although not as large as the New California Republic with a population of over one million, thanks to the military bases and science and technology left over from the pre-war period, the West Coast Brotherhood of Steel is equipped with a large number of advanced individual weapons, power armor, and bird helicopters.
However, since the Brotherhood has always been conservative in personnel recruitment and science and technology, in the eyes of outsiders, they may have mastered many advanced pre-war technologies, such as laser weapons, power armor, nerve enhancement surgery, etc., but in terms of overall strength It is still far inferior to the New California Republic, which has a relatively complete social structure.
Moreover, the hierarchy within the Brotherhood is strict. In the "chain of bondage" system carefully constructed by the elders, even the descendants of the Brotherhood members must go through the three stages of Beginner, Advanced Beginner, and Apprentice before they can officially become part of the Brotherhood. member.
After proving their abilities as apprentices, they can choose to become Clerics or Knights of the Brotherhood. The clerk is responsible for investigating and using reverse engineering to analyze pre-war technology and items left in the wasteland, maintaining the Brotherhood's existing technology while developing new weapons and equipment.
The knights' tasks are relatively simple. Although most of the brotherhood knights who have left the novice stage have more or less some scientific knowledge, more often than not they tend to use force to wipe out the enemies on the brotherhood's path. .
After passing through the four stages of novice, sergeant, captain, and chief, the best among the brotherhood knights will be promoted to paladins by the Presbyterian Church, responsible for the security work of the clerks when they go to dangerous areas to investigate and serve as The commander of ordinary knights.
Due to the passage of time, the population and resources of the West Coast Wasteland are extremely scarce, and most of them are controlled by the New California Republic. In order to continue to expand the Brotherhood's sphere of influence, about thirty years ago, the Brotherhood headquarters on the West Coast organized a task force team, hoping they would get in touch with the Central Brotherhood and go to Washington to establish a chapter.
Although the process was not satisfactory, the task force failed to contact the Central Brotherhood, and the alliance relationship with the headquarters was better than nothing.
However, under the external pressure of Skynet's army, the young elder Arthur Maxson, who was newly appointed a few years ago, decided to give it a try for the future of mankind. For this reason, he did not hesitate to personally take the most powerful armed force in his hands, the Pridwin armored airship, and sail thousands of miles to support the battle in New Vegas.
As a labor of love for the engineering crews of the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel, it took them two years to find all the materials needed to build the Prydwin, even with a large amount of pre-war materials piled up in multiple abandoned air force bases. .
After that, it took another four years to design and build, and a total of six years to get this 40,000-ton super airship into the sky.
However, it was the birth of the Pridwin that gave the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel unparalleled strategic transportation capabilities in the current era. For example, when fully loaded, she can drop thousands of fully armed Brotherhood Knights and dozens of Bird multi-purpose helicopters to any location in the East Coast Wasteland within a day.
And to the Brotherhood, the Pridwin means far more than a helicarrier.
After all, in the past few years after the airship was built, she accompanied the knights and clerks of the East Coast Brotherhood across every inch of the federal wasteland. The deafening whistle and intimidating size when setting sail have already been engraved in her memory. It lingers in the minds of every wastelander.
Even General Nora of the Minutemen organization had to admit that as long as the Pridwin was still flying in the sky, the Minutemen could only huddle in the shadow of the Brotherhood of Steel and would never develop into a large force that could stand alone.
Looking at the Bird helicopters that were leaving the mothership one after another and carrying the knights to the ground to establish a defense line, Captain Kells on the bridge nodded with satisfaction, feeling deeply proud of the unparalleled giant ship under his feet.
In order to make this 40,000-ton steel behemoth fly into the sky, when the idea of the Pridwin was still in the drawing stage, he suggested that designers install four jet nuclear-powered engines around the airship deck. Otherwise, it would be impossible for those few hydrogen-filled buoyancy chambers to withstand such a terrifying tonnage.
Although everyone is well aware of the horror of hydrogen, under the premise that there is a serious shortage of helium and the airship has no extra space to install an engine coolant tank, the idea of using hydrogen to provide the last trace of buoyancy has become a decision made by designers due to lack of resources. I had no choice but to compromise.
Driven by two tilting rotors and a tail jet engine, it didn't take long for the nimble Bird helicopter to deliver a large amount of support to the city and fly into the air again, using the rotary machine gun on board to straf the ground. A dense group of hunter tanks.
But what makes everyone's heart sink is that ordinary weapons have little effect on the Skynet Terminator made of tantalum alloy, and the composite armor on the surface of the Hunter tank is enough to withstand the firing of the rotating machine gun.
As more and more Centurion heavy robots pointed their plasma cannon muzzles into the sky, the Bird helicopters that dared to approach and shoot were quickly shot down.
Seeing the air force he had accumulated for many years falling or exploding in the air one after another, even the high-spirited Elder Maxson did not believe at first that the West Coast Brotherhood had really encountered an unprecedentedly powerful enemy. At this time, he had to leave with an ugly face. Order to recover all helicopters for use in defense against enemy air power.
Obviously, Maxson was prepared to use brutal ground combat to delay the enemy's advance. Because he believed that the well-trained Brotherhood Knights, each armed with a set of T60 power armor, would never lose to those hideous machines.
What's more, there are still a considerable number of friendly forces in New Vegas, and Mr. House also made it clear in the communication channel that he still has a large number of robot troops to spend.
But during the deployment, Elder Maxson couldn't help but start to guess the origin of the Skynet Legion. As one of the few people in the federal wasteland who knew the details of the academy, he knew very well how much manpower and material resources such a mechanical army would consume.
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"咻咻咻......"
"Boom!" "Boohoo boom..."
In front of a concrete bunker somewhere outside the city, the Terminators who were pouring into the street from the gap in the defense line were using their powerful plasma rifles to shoot at all living things in their sight. From time to time, one or several protector robots would rush up. Come forward, grab the enemy's tantalum alloy body and perform a self-destruction attack before the body is melted by the hot plasma.
Along with the rubble flying in the sky after the miniature nuclear explosion, several New California Republic soldiers and West Coast Brotherhood apprentices wearing military green polymer armor poked their heads out of the bunker to observe the location of the remaining enemies. And beside them, there were many members of the Marauder warband with oil paint on their faces.
Before the Skynet invasion, the three parties would have exchanged fire the moment they met. After all, during Operation Rising Sun ten years ago, the New California Republic Rangers who went to seize the Brotherhood's nuclear power plant almost killed each other. A certain branch was slaughtered. If it weren't for the Paladin's desperate fight, perhaps that branch would have raised the two-headed bear flag of the New California Republic.
Although the two sides later declared a truce through the mediation of various forces in the wasteland, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the rift between New California and the Brotherhood cannot be settled by a contract.
Not to mention the Marauders, if they were encountered in the wild, both the Rangers and the Brotherhood would crush them mercilessly. It's just that the predators in New Vegas were all supported by Mr. House to manage casinos and various industries, and they were considered half allies.
Under the heavy pressure from the Skynet Legion, the three parties that were least likely to form an alliance in the wasteland in the past have actually reached a delicate balance in this bunker. The tacit understanding developed during the bloody battles also quickly eased their relationship, from being coldly hostile at the beginning to becoming comrades who are now willing to share food and ammunition.
Just as a brotherhood apprentice loaded the last magazine into the assault rifle in his hand, the iron door of the bunker was mercilessly blasted open by the centurion. The deep purple plasma instantly vaporized several people near the iron gate. When a Terminator with red eyes slowly walked into the bunker under a hail of bullets, the apprentice put down the rifle with all the bullets in his hand in despair, his eyes wide with anger. Open your eyes and prepare to face your own death calmly.
However, what he didn't expect was that in the next second, a large hand wrapped in armor suddenly reached out from the door.
With a strong tug from his big hand, even a Terminator could not resist the majestic power of the power armor, and was thrown violently away, hitting the wall and sparks flying everywhere. Before it could get up, several Brotherhood Knights wearing T60 power armor filed in and completely destroyed the T600 Terminator with their rotating laser guns.
Looking at the Brotherhood logo on the chest of the knights' power armor, the apprentice had never felt that the combination of long swords, gears and wings could be so inspiring.
Being pulled up from the ground by the leading knight, the apprentice bravely asked: "Are you the reinforcements sent by Elder Maxson?"
The leading knight nodded when he heard this, and replied in an unusually loud voice that was transformed through the helmet's sounder: "Yes, we belong to the 'Pride of Lyons' commando team. Apprentice, can you still fight?"
"sure!"
As if he had been given a shot in the arm, the apprentice nodded repeatedly, picked up a rifle from the side of his comrades who had turned to ashes, and followed the footsteps of his seniors with determined eyes.
Outside the bunker, more than a dozen Brotherhood knights armed with rotating machine guns were constantly pouring bullets at the Skynet army not far away - under the extremely dense rain of bullets, even the terminal with a tantalum alloy endoskeleton They can't last long either.
The thickly armored Hunter tanks and Centurions behind the Terminator are dealt with by knights equipped with rockets and plasma weapons.
Under the strong resistance of the Brotherhood Knights, the originally overwhelming Skynet army encountered another head-on attack.
Thanks to the rigorous training of Brotherhood knights since childhood, the combat effectiveness of each knight and power armor combination is far from being described as one plus one equals two. It can even be said that every brotherhood knight is a war machine carefully polished by the elders. Although the cost is high, the combat effectiveness is absolutely amazing.
Just when the situation on the battlefield was about to change again, a giant plasma ball emitting an unknown purple light suddenly spanned dozens of kilometers, crossed a curve representing ultimate destruction, and then landed in the sky above the still-defending bunker. It hit the apprentice and the knights of Lyons' Pride Commando hard.
"boom!"
After a flash that could not be seen directly with the naked eye, half of New Vegas was bombarded by the blast of plasma and turned into irreparable ruins. Everywhere was crystallized sand shining in the moonlight and steel twisted by high temperatures. structure.
Standing on the bridge of the Prydwin airship, overlooking the entire battlefield, Elder Maxson looked at Captain Kells next to him with an almost dumbfounded expression. It could be seen from the young elder's bloodshot eyeballs that he could not accept the East Coast brothers. Thousands of precious knights would be lost in a matter of seconds.
If something is not done immediately, they will lose more.
Soon, through the lookout post in front of the airship, Elder Maxson learned of the existence of the Titan siege cannon thirty kilometers away.
But what is desperate is that even if a flying bird helicopter is sent to carry the death squads to destroy it, let alone the other party must have arrangements near the siege cannon, the death squads are afraid that they will not even be able to land, and they will be overwhelmed by the dense air defense on the ground. The firepower was gone.
Glancing at the solemn face of the black captain next to him, Elder Maxson smiled with relief, patted the other party's shoulder and said: "The enemy may launch a second artillery bombardment at the city center at any time. We cannot abandon what is still holding on in the city. Warriors.”
Hearing the hidden meaning in the elder's words, Captain Kells shed a tear from the corner of his eye.
He knew that the other party didn't intend to leave.
The next second, Elder Maxson came to sit down in his exclusive seat on the bridge, and said solemnly: "I order the Pridwin to move forward at full speed."
"Even if it's a collision! I will never allow these bastards to fire a second shot!"
In the sky, accompanied by a whistle that resounded through the sky, the surviving soldiers on the ground looked up one after another, watching in silence as this behemoth, which was built only six or seven years ago, slowly sailed away.
No one but the Knights of the East Coast Brotherhood knew what she was going to do.
"You're not going to run away, are you?"
Faced with almost insulting questions from friendly forces, the surviving Brotherhood Knights did not explain much, but shook their heads slightly, and then continued to join in battle after battle, proving with their blood that their glory would never fade.
As the dawn sun once again illuminated the ruins of New Vegas, no one on the ground knew where the Pridwin had gone.
But everyone who fought for New Vegas knew that after the Pridwin left, no second giant cannonball landed on them.
Looking at the iron-gray army leaving in the distance like an ebbing tide, the knights' faces showed no joy after victory.
Because their keen intuition told them that today, the East Coast Brotherhood lost another respectable leader after the Lyons father and daughter.
