Fallout 4 Story Recap: 12 Major Plot Points You Need To Know

6. 2077: The Brotherhood Of Steel Is Formed

Anyone who's played a previous Fallout game will have heard of these guys, and is probably emitting a silent cheer at the mention of their name. The Brotherhood of Steel was formed by US army captain Roger Maxson, who was assigned to provide security at the Mariposa Military Base, where experiments with FEV were being forcefully carried out on military prisoners. Appalled by what he saw at the base, Maxons effectively took over command of the base when his superior, Colonel Robert Spindel, committed suicide following a mental breakdown. Maxson executed the researchers behind the horrific experiments at the base, and declared his troops' desertion from the US army on 20th October, three days before the bombs dropped. Days after the Great War came and went, Maxson and his troops left Mariposa and headed for the Lost Hills underground bunker - a journey that would come to be known in Brotherhood of Steel lore as 'The Exodus'. The soldiers reunited with survivors from the area, and travelled for weeks to the Lost Hills, losing many people to raider ambushes along the way. Some time after arriving at the Lost Hills bunker, Maxson founded the Brotherhood of Steel, a group with the noble goal of rebuilding civilisation, although with the tendency to not welcome outsiders and not share its strong core of military technologies. The group extended its power across much of New California over the next 100 years, protecting inhabitants of the area from raiders, and asserting its dominance with military-grade weaponry and the iconic T51b power armour (pictured).