However, there was no response from the Army due to their focus on the escalating conflicts with China. Maxson, now the unofficial leader, arrested most of the West-Tek scientists and were later executed.Ĭaptain Maxson and his men declared desertion from the United States Army via a radio address.
Once the secret was out, the facility collapsed into chaos, leading to the commanding officer of the base, Colonel Spindel, suffering a complete mental breakdown and committing suicide. One year later, the team and all West-Tek personnel were relocated to Mariposa Military Base to protect their research for the United States government.ĭuring October of 2077, Maxson and his team discovered the true purpose of the West-Tek scientists: using military prisoners as unwilling test subjects for their engineered Forced Evolutionary Virus (F.E.V.). On January 3, 2076, Maxson was part of a military dispatch led by Colonel Robert Spindel to monitor the activities at a West-Tek facility in California. The Brotherhood of Steel was founded right after the Great War by Roger Maxson, a former Captain in the United States Army. They see themselves as the savior of pre- Great War technology and seek to control the access of it by others in their areas of power.
The Brotherhood of Steel is a quasi-religious technology-based organization operating throughout the wastelands of post-war North America.
