00:00Peggy 18
00:30President Wilson, Corporal Marino, Corporal Weber, Private Esposito, and Private DeSilva.
00:37Everything was going according to Taggarty's battle plan until nuclear Armageddon arrived on the morning of October 23rd.
00:46Retreating to their base camp at Spruce Knob Lake, the Thunder monitored the radio for days.
00:52To their surprise, they heard Captain Roger Maxson broadcasting from the bunker known as Lost Hills in California.
01:00His unit had seceded from the U.S. military days before the nuclear exchange
01:06after claiming to have discovered sinister, sanctioned experiments on human captives at the Mariposa military base.
01:14Though Maxson was a traitor as far as the government was concerned,
01:17and Taggarty decided to give him a chance after initial hesitation.
01:23What she learned shattered her own loyalty to the U.S. government.
01:28Maxson shared the crimes they uncovered and how soldiers like them were led astray by those in charge.
01:34They soon found evidence to back Maxson's words.
01:38Civilian subjects of a super soldier program using the forced evolutionary virus at Huntersville.
01:45The Thunder eventually accepted their discoveries and Maxson's remote leadership.
01:51They spent the winter at Camp Venture, a survival training camp, turning it into their headquarters.
01:58Other survivors trickled in, and Taggarty used the opportunity to grow the ranks.
02:04However, morale was low.
02:06They needed something to believe in.
02:09A reason to live.
02:11Maxson provided that reason.
02:13He offered Taggarty and her soldiers a new purpose, a new identity.
02:19He proposed they integrated into an ideology he called the Brotherhood of Steel.
02:26Taggarty and her charge were caught off guard by what appeared to be an outrageous plan.
02:31She could understand defending others.
02:34But why, as scribes, squires, knights, and paladins?
02:40Maxson's plan was more than just a new name and titles.
02:44The Brotherhood would preserve technology and knowledge to safeguard against its abuse.
02:50The newly anointed paladin Taggarty and her Appalachian chapter grew quickly, and Camp Venture was soon at capacity.
02:58The Allegheny Asylum in the Cranberry Bog was chosen as the new headquarters, being renamed to Fort Defiance, while Thunder
03:08Mountain Power Plant was seized from the pre-war secessionist free states.
03:12It was at this point when the first reports of giant mutated bats flying in from the deeper bog area
03:20started to appear.
03:22As the Brotherhood settled in, trade routes were opened with the responders, a consolidated civilian group to the west.
03:31Relations flourished as they found a common cause in serving humanity.
03:36Their alliance peaked in 2086 at the Battle of Huntersville, where they contained the super-mutant threat.
03:43Though there were losses, including the death of Squire Da Silva, it was a decisive victory.
03:49Elder Maxson was jubilant.
03:52The victory convinced him that survival was assured, and he used the occasion to evolve the Appalachian Brotherhood's primary goal
04:01of securing technology and knowledge.
04:04However, over time, relations strained when the Brotherhood started making greater requisitions of material and manpower to fight an emerging
04:14threat.
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