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Maxson informs you (and the rest of his BoS troops) that the Brotherhood has established a base of operations in the Commonwealth to wage a war on their greatest threat to date вЂ“ The Institute. ItвЂ™s here that you meed Elder Arthur Maxson, a direct descendent of the founder of the BoS, and current leader of the East Coast Brotherhood. Your radio then picks up the newly-boosted broadcast (thanks to your assistance in obtaining the transmitter) ordering you back to the police station, where Danse escorts you aboard the Prydwen to be introduced to the rest of the Brotherhood. Surrounded by, and launching, Vertibirds (Vertical Take Off and Landing craft that resemble helicopters with their blades on wing-pontoons) it flies into the Commonwealth skies and takes up residence at the ruins of Boston Airport (patterned on the real-world Logan Airport). OK, one last warning, ***MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD***ДЄt the mid-point of the gameвЂ™s main quest, the player (known as the Sole Survivor) encounters a scripted event showing the Prydwen, a giant rigid airship that serves as a mobile base of operations for the Brotherhood in the East. They do not actively seek to destroy them, but neither do they want anything to do with them or go out of their way to help these former-human mutants. At this point, their stance on sentient (non-feral) Ghouls is somewhat murky. All you know when you are given the opportunity to join is that they will help the civilians of the Commonwealth, but only as a means to their own ends of acquiring any and all pre-war technology and destroying all non-humans out there. The BoS Recon members also wall themselves off from the rest of the Commonwealth (quite literally), and while there is an interest in cleaning up the area, helping civilians doesnвЂ™t rank high on their agenda.Дanse and the others also hint at the fact that the East Coast BoS is no longer under the guidance of Elder Lyons, but very little of who is in charge is revealed until after the mid-point of the main quest itself. Half of the radiant quests require you to go out and obliterate every mutant, Raider, and Ghoul you come across in a specific area. The recon squad is extremely mistrustful of outsiders (except for one member), and is hell-bent on killing every non-human they come across. The BoS shown by the recon squad gives some major hints that things have changed for the Brotherhood since FO3. If you agree, eventually you are given a quest to find out what happened to the last recon squad that came to the Commonwealth, and then you can continue radiant quests until you get to the mid-point of the main quest, where things change. At the end of that mission, youвЂ™re given a chance to join the Brotherhood as a provisional member if you wish.

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This initial introduction leads to a series of radiant quests that allow you to discover the Commonwealth and learn more about the Brotherhood as you go. What they have done, however, is found a strange signal that canвЂ™t be explained yet, but definitely points to powerful and advanced technology being used in the CommonwealthвЂ¦ somewhere.Дanse then recruits you (if you agree to it) to recover a powerful transmitter component вЂ“ introducing you to the Institute (by reference) and their Synths (who crash your search party) along the way. To make matters worse, they canвЂ™t create a strong enough signal to establish radio contact with The Citadel вЂ“ the BoS headquarters located in the ruins of the Pentagon in the Capitol Wasteland вЂ“ to call for support.

Multiple members of their team have been killed in feral Ghoul and Super Mutant attacks, and the three of them are all thatвЂ™s left. The team was sent from the East Coast BoS group (headquartered in the Capitol Wasteland вЂ“ formerly Washington DC), and is charged with scouting the Commonwealth (formerly Boston and the surrounding area in Massachusetts). While theyвЂ™re not the first to visit the Commonwealth, they are the most successful recon team to date, having established a foothold in an abandoned police station and started operations. Prior to the end of Act II, your only interaction with the BoS is Paladin Danse, Scribe Haylen, and Knight Reese the only remaining members of a BoS Recon Squad sent to investigate the Commonwealth. One that you meet up to the mid-point of the main quest, and another that makes their appearance in Act II.

The BoS that you meet in FO4 takes two forms. Now that weвЂ™ve had a chance to talk about the background of the Brotherhood of Steel (BoS), letвЂ™s discuss their appearance in Fallout 4 (FO4) and the morally grey storyline they bring to the table.

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