This is a huge ret-con. They might at least be more honest about ret-conning and not being faithful to the source material...
Ok, the moment I read his faux-philosophical opening I knew something was wrong...
Or maybe, just maybe, the human race has already answered this question: technology is worshipped, simply and plainly, through obsession and attainment. We are a people dominated by technology, from our electrically-powered cities right down to our scientifically engineered anti-depressant medications. And every Sunday mass we miss to stay home and watch football on our HDTVs is further proof that now, more than ever, technology is the deity we hold most dear.
Now imagine all of that compulsion, all of that addiction we as an entire race share, and encapsulate it into one group of people. Imagine the obsession and fervor, the unending need for technological superiority, and the ultimate futility of such a goal.
Imagine, if you will, the Brotherhood of Steel.
HDTV?
BUZZZZZ!
The evolution from the second industrial revolution to the consumer revolution, in the strict economic and not social-political (Marxian) sense of moving from industrial growth to "lower" levels of secondary economics, meta-economics and often wasteful consumerism,
had not happened yet in the 50s.
Hey, guys? Thanks for not getting it! Thanks for implanting modern values on the Brotherhood of Steel, a representative of even older values than the retro-50s in the game.
Hey, thanks!
And while it’s true they are a military organization
No, they're not.
the Brotherhood’s values and command structure are actually more representative of a medieval knightly order.
No, not knightly, more monk-like. But thanks for trying.
For a Brotherhood of Steel Paladin, Power Armor is his plate mail, a powered Super Sledge his warhammer
Simplify much?
The organization’s entire existence is predicated on the acquisition of technology.
Oh, rly? And here I thought preservation was their primary goal, acquisition secondary. Hey, remember how they sent one party to the Glow after much discussion and then that party died and they never sent another party again, only sending in doomed would-be applicants?
Yeah, remember that?
That's the BoS, ya R-Tard.
So it really didn’t come as a surprise to anyone within the Brotherhood of Steel when the order’s ruling council, based in Southern California, decided to send a contingent of soldiers all the way to the East Coast, with two important objectives:
...
I can see how it wouldn't come as a surprise to anyone when the ruling council suddenly does a U-turn and decides it's a good idea to spread out, in
direct contradiction to the behaviour patterns of the BoS set in Fallout 1 and 2.
To investigate the reports of Super Mutant activity in the area.
Yes, because the BoS really showed a proclivity to active interest in Super Mutant activity before...
...
wait for it
...
NOT!
as well as his seven year-old daughter Sarah
What, it's standard military practice to take 7-year olds along on recon missions?
a technological marvel that, if restored, could help the Brotherhood rebuild a strength and reputation that had been declining steadily for years.
The discovery was significant enough to earn Paladin Lyons a battlefield promotion to Elder, and a new directive from his superiors – to establish a new, permanent Brotherhood base in the Capital Wasteland, and continue the search for any other advanced technology hidden in the capital’s ruins.
Uhm...plothole?
If the technological marvel is such that if restored it would help the BoS restore itself, shouldn't the priority be to get it back to homebase, rather than sit around and continue searching
when you've already found what you're looking for? If it can't be moved, why not dig in and claim it?
To quote a great poet: Who wrote this drivel?
their other great discovery – Super Mutants.
Well, someone needs an English course. They already knew the Super Mutants were there, hence it's not a discovery.
Duh, gypsy.
That’s why, for the people of the Capital Wasteland, the Brotherhood of Steel was the answer to their prayers. Scattered, hungry, and largely disorganized, they had lived with the constant threat of death or capture by the Super Mutants for as long as they could remember. Elder Lyons and his brave Knights and Paladins changed all that.
Yes, risking lives and technology to clear out a useless wasteland of mutants and help the needy really sounds like something the BoS would do...
Wait, what?
Last I checked, super mutants aren't retards (not all of them), they avoided the BoS in Fallout 1 for good reason, why exactly wouldn't they do the same here...
...because?
What, no answer?
Fighting the Super Mutants, simply keeping them at bay, may have been enough for the area’s innocents, but for the Brotherhood, too many questions remained: how were these local Super Mutants created? Why were they capturing the people of the Capital Wasteland? Where were they taking them? Finding these answers would, ultimately, become Owyn Lyons' obsession.
Well, he must've had bad training because no Brotherhood paladin I ever met would give a shit about that.
Also, how does sitting in a base keeping mutants at bay help anyone? At best, it'd force the mutants away from the BoS center of operation and, hey, into human settlements.
Another plothole! This thing's like swiss cheese, people, run and hide!
But Elder Owyn Lyons had another priority, one he considered more important than his original directive or any orders received since – the protection of the innocent people of the Capital Wasteland
No. Fuck you, ok. No.
This is shit. "Hey guys these guys, right, they were sent trecking along the wasteland and all of a sudden they decided to completely change personality and the BoS' goals. Isn't our plot grate?!?!!"
Please keep your fucking asstarded Brotherhood paladins away from the real thing. This is at least as bad as Tactics, you bunch of assclowns.
Or had a Brotherhood Elder finally exhibited the selfless behavior that should serve as a model for the entire order?
Fallout 4!
Seriously, fuck you.
They believed that by abandoning the Brotherhood of Steel’s primary mission of acquiring new technologies, Elder Lyons had abandoned the very values that defined the order itself.
Yes, he had. The real question is: why wouldn't everyone else see it that way.
Guess how many people there were in the BoS base in Fallout 1 that had any interest in people outside? 1. One elder, thanks to whom you can convince the council to give some meagre help.
I don't know who these jokers are, but they certainly aren't BoS paladins.
Now, only one question remains – When the Brotherhood of Steel Scribes record the events to come, what will they say about you?
Actually, the real question is: who are these fuckheads and why are they pretending to be associated with the Brotherhood of Steel? 'cause they aren't it, from A to Z Bethesda got about everything wrong...
It's so typical of Fallout 3. They show they get it, they write down the right things and say "hey look, this is how it is in Fallout", a xenophobic BoS, true, that's how it is...
And then they go "but y'know what, we're going to ignore that and just go our own way."
Ugh. Do you really need to pretend it's Fallout, then?
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