Editing Fallout (section)

===[[Brotherhood of Steel]]===
[[Adeptus Mechanicus|Tech-hoarding soldiers]] [[Black Templar|LARPing]] as [[Bretonnia|Arthurian Knights]]. Seriously. 

Most notable for their near-exclusive use of Power Armor (until other, less toaster-obsessed factions came into play) and their fetish for energy weapons. The Brotherhood’s originated from US Army defectors who turned away from the atrocities and corruption of the pre- and post-war US Government under the guidance of High Elder Roger Maxson, who also wrote the [[Codex Astartes|Codex]] that continues to guide them to this day. 

Being the poster boys of the setting, each Fallout game features them in some capacity. Since the original organization was just one bunker, the idea of [[Space Marines|chapters]] was introduced. In their quest to reclaim more technology ([[Iron_Hands#The_Moirae_Schism|but also to exile the forward-thinking while still making them useful]]) expeditions were sent out to found new chapters all across America so that Brotherhood paladins and knights can be found pretty much anywhere in post-apocalyptic US. Their doctrines also widely differ from staunch traditionalism to even more [[Adeptus Mechanicus|AdMech]]-like behavior of the Mojave chapter, brutal pragmatism of the Midwestern Brotherhood or naïve idealism of the FO3 Eastern chapter. Said chapters also have a bad tendency of being more prominent and numerous of a force than the OG Brotherhood, but such is life in the Wasteland. 

The Brotherhood’s main mission is to safeguard the “forbidden” technology that led to the Great War, though they consider everything from Laser weapons to vital pre-War energy infrastructure as “forbidden” tech that cannot be trusted in the hands of “wasteland savages,” so they [[Template:American|liberate]] flashlights from the people who just happen to have it. To be fair to the Brotherhood, [[Dark Age of Technology|pre-War America was experimenting with some dangerous super-weapon level tech at the time, and were not above using their own citizens as guinea pigs]], as evidenced by the creation of Super Mutants and the entire Vault-Tec project. They also generally concentrate their efforts on things with immediate military applications, so they won't come knocking for your nuclear reactor (maybe). This also leads to them effectively ignoring civilian technologies like hydroponics, which bites them in the ass more often than not. None of that excuses the fact that their paranoia and elitism leads them to confiscate vital technology that could be used to actually better the lives of the Wastelanders around them.

Oh, and they're massive racists in fluff of every installment, shooting both Ghouls and Super Mutants on sight.