Knight Captain Cade (+A Few Others)

Character One: Knight Captain Cade

Name: Cade

Height: 6'0

Age: 51

Appearance: Cade has steel-grey eyes, receding and balding silver hair and visible facial stubble.

Uniform: Cade wears the medical variant of the standard Brotherhood of Steel Fatigues, his consisting of heavy combat boots, dull cargo-style pants, a thick-knitted white turtleneck sweater with a harness layered over it holding many pouches, the uniform is complete with brown gloves.

Background: Cade, rank knight-captain, is stationed aboard the Prydwen as the vessel's medical officer. He is in charge of administering medical exams to new recruits of the Brotherhood of Steel. All members are required to be medically examined by the doctor annually and report for immediate decontamination after contact with outside lifeforms. He is responsible for monitoring the stability of the soldiers, as they can get mentally distraught after a long and painful mission. The doctor was also involved in assisting Proctor Ingram with modifying a power armor frame to serve as prosthetic legs to allow her to regain full mobility.

Character Two: Proctor Ingram

Name: Ingram

Age: 49

Height: 6'3 (Due to her Power Armor)

Appearance: Ingram has medium length, red shaggy hair and hazel eyes, both of her legs are gone from the mid-thigh, which is why she doesn't leave her Power Armor.

Power Armor: Ingram wears a Power Armor Chassis as a means of walking around after losing her legs. The chassis is a very slightly modified, standard Power Armor frame, but without the Brotherhood's T60 Armor in it.

Background: In her past, Ingram was a scribe with the Capital Wasteland chapter of the Brotherhood, taking part in their conflict against the super mutant clans of the Capital Wasteland. Sometime after 2282, Ingram was stationed at a clifftop staging area for power armor troops during a major super mutant offensive against the Brotherhood's main base of operations. She was on-site when it received a direct hit from a mini nuke, causing the cliff to shear right off, and with it the platform she was standing on. Ingram's saving grace was that she had been test-piloting one of the suits moments before the attack, which saved her life. However, the hundred-foot drop ended up wrecking the armor, in the process destroying Ingram's legs beyond the Brotherhood's ability to heal. However, Ingram refused to just give up. As a talented engineer and programmer, she pushed through the limitations of her disability and continued to work for the Brotherhood, eventually achieving one of the highest honors for a scribe by attaining the rank of Proctor and a posting as head of the engineering team of the Brotherhood's airship, the Prydwen. In her capacity as proctor, Ingram's team salvaged a pre-War fusion plant from a derelict aircraft carrier and installed it within the Prydwen, enhancing its long-range travel capabilities and allowing for a faster arrival to the Commonwealth during their expedition. Despite her accomplishments as an engineer, Ingram's biggest desire remained to return to the field and fight among the knights and soldiers of the Brotherhood. Over a period of six months in cooperation with Knight-Captain Cade, Ingram designed a custom-made power armor frame that would simulate an approximation of full mobility for her, with the proctor undergoing rigorous physical therapy and training in it to a degree that surpassed the abilities of other soldiers, Despite her progress, her skill as an engineer actually prevented her desire from reaching fruition. Due to her valuable contributions as the Prydwen's head engineer, Elder Maxson simply could not afford to clear her for field service and risk losing her to the Brotherhood's enemies, considering it to be a bigger blow to the organization than losing a whole combat unit. In her day-to-day duties, Ingram heads maintenance on the Prydwen itself, as well as on Power Armor suits, robots, vertibirds, and any other equipment or materiel used on the Prydwen. Because of this, she is constantly busy and running a backlog of work orders.

Personality and relationships: Ingram maintains close friendships with both Knight-Captain Cade and her fellow Proctor Teagan. Cade is constantly looking for excuses to make her come into his infirmary, while Teagan often tries to cheer her up by digging up goods that she has a weakness for, like sweets to be shared in the comfort of his cabin. Ingram's everyday personality is casual, joking, and sarcastic. She likes bantering with people with playful attitudes, responding with sarcasm or making lighthearted fun of them in return. Ingram is also a strict believer in Maxson's philosophy about the dangers of unchecked technology; she believes no exceptions can be made when it comes to synths, even if they are loyal members of the Brotherhood. That being said, she is not as dogmatic as other members of the Brotherhood, and those who are amuse her more than anything else, though not in a mocking way.

Character Three: Proctor Teagan

Name: Teagan

Age: 47

Height: 6'0

Uniform: Teagan wears black combat boots with dirty, muted olive-green pants tucked in, a very faded red coat with a black utility harness over it featuring pockets and pouches.

Appearance: Teagan has steel-grey, slightly receding hair that is slicked back, paired with a full goatee with no chops, and brown eyes.

Background: Proctor Teagan is the quartermaster on the Prydwen. He is in charge of managing the Brotherhood's equipment and munitions and cataloguing weapons and armor recovered by Proctor Quinlan's research patrols out in the field. Teagan's scribes are responsible for designing and manufacturing the weapons used by the Brotherhood. He is also the man responsible for engineering Elder Maxson's battlecoat. He sells a variety of gear to the discerning customer, as long as they are a member of the Brotherhood of Steel. However, he keeps the best gear reserved for higher-ranking members. The proctor also manages the Brotherhood's food supply, which is used by the airship's mess officer to cook the meals eaten by the soldiers and has officially requested the chain of command to lend aid so that the Brotherhood can get better prices from traders.

Character Four: Proctor Quinlan

Name: Quinlan

Age: 60

Height: 5'11

Appearance: Quinlan is an older man that has somehow managed to keep brown hair, but couldn't keep wrinkles off, his eyes are green.

Uniform: Quinlan wears brown boots with black pants tucked into them, a long black coat that is slightly tattered at the hem and has a belt with four pouches on the front, wrapped around his waist, black gloves that are almost elbow-length and black rimmed glasses on his face.

Background and Personality: Highly intelligent and methodical, Proctor Quinlan is one of the oldest members of the Commonwealth expedition. A Capital Wasteland native, he is deeply interested in what bounty of knowledge the Commonwealth has to offer. His primary duty on board the Prydwen is sifting through the immense amount of material recovered from the region, trying to identify useful information among the sea of what he considers useless noise, such as fiction and poetry: Technical volumes, repair manuals, design philosophies and assorted medical research, anything to enhance the Brotherhood's technical knowledge. Anything that doesn't carry such knowledge is just a waste of paper, as far as Quinlan is concerned. Other scribes don't agree with his stance, but Quinlan has the benefit of his position and has pulled rank to ensure that fictional material is kept off the Prydwen. Upon the Prydwen's arrival to the Commonwealth, Quinlan immediately set up a two-pronged system of recovery to maximize recovery rates: First, he secured an authorization to pay a bounty for recovering documents, anything that might contain technical data, down to memos, charts and blueprints, in addition to the aforementioned books. Second, he organized a research patrol system, with scribe-soldier pairs recovering any and all documents and artifacts they can find. The two-man teams help maximize efficiency, by having them do a quick pass to evaluate a location's technical and historical relevance, instead of sending in an entire retrieval team to a potentially useless location. Brotherhood members also have standing orders to turn in any technical documents to Quinlan for analysis, as well as recovered historical, social documentation, and other artifacts. Lancer-Captain Kells also has any soldiers who haven't participated in one of Quinlan's patrols sign up for them. While the patrols are widely known to be dangerous, some scribes volunteer for the assignments so as to escape from soldiers who they consider to be disgusting and/or unintelligent. Additionally, Quinlan is Maxson's most trusted analyst, responsible for identifying strategic targets, aiding the reconstruction of Liberty Prime, evaluating key intelligence recovered in the war against the Institute. The elder has not known Quinlan to make mistakes. Quinlan is a staunch supporter of Maxson's policies and considers the Institute's research to be ill-conceived, to be stamped out with extreme prejudice for the risk that they pose to humanity at large. He has patrols follow up on every lead, no matter how far-fetched it might seem, coordinates duty rosters with Lancer-Captain Kells to track down the location of the Institute, and collaborates with other scribes to better understand the enemy. Scribe Neriah is one of his most trusted aides, especially when it comes to sensitive intelligence. He does dislike her tendency to be distracted by her special projects, though. Quinlan executes his duty with a single-minded devotion to duty and the Brotherhood, and particularly dislikes anyone badmouthing his fellow scribes (after all, the Brotherhood would have no intel or support capacity without them), or disrespecting superiors (which can quickly result in disciplinary measures). In fact, he dislikes showing any disrespect, regardless of rank, especially since any members might have to give their lives in the line of duty, and the Brotherhood honors them all. As far as he knows, Brotherhood scribes are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to further the Brotherhood's knowledge, and he personally believes that death in pursuit of duty is honorable. He doesn't think that everyone should pursuit such a goal, and the best way is to accomplish the Brotherhood's goals without sacrificing Brotherhood lives. He is an outlier among his peers, believing that if it can be helped, the Brotherhood should use alternative forces as cannon fodder, if necessary, to minimize Brotherhood casualties. However, his "empathy" has limits. If anyone in the Brotherhood were to be revealed as a synth, even its most loyal members, Quinlan's only regret would be that the Brotherhood was completely unaware, due to a lack of preparedness. Quinlan does have a softer side, all things considered. He has a pet cat named Emmett who accompanies him at work, and though he keeps his temper in control most of the time, he lets himself go when dealing with obstinate technology, down to cursing and kicking unruly objects or robots. Despite his refusal to acknowledge fiction, he hypocritically has a soft spot for Grognak the Barbarian, being an avid collector of comic books and other series paraphernalia, as per the 2076 Underlane Price Guide. Field scribes know to be on the lookout for any Grognak books and items, especially the rarest limited annual issues. Quinlan does hate if such priceless items are returned damaged, though. Unbeknownst to him, his stash is often preyed upon by other Brotherhood members to read comic books.

Character Five: Elder Maxson

Name: Arthur Maxson

Age: 20

Height: 6'3

Appearance: Arthur Maxson is a young man with tanned skin, black hair in a militaristic style with the sides shaved low, a full but short beard with a scar on his right cheek and blue eyes.

Outfit: Elder Maxson wears two things: A standard Brotherhood jumpsuit, unique in that it's black compared to the standard orange, and his battlecoat, which is made of leather and has a fur collar, reinforced by Proctor Teagan to be resistant to attacks.

Background/History/Personality: Born in 2267 to Jonathan and Jessica Maxson, Arthur is a descendant of the legendary Roger Maxson, founder of the Brotherhood of Steel. His father, a high-ranking paladin serving just outside the New California Republic, was recently killed in battle during the NCR-Brotherhood War, and his mother, Lady Maxson, sent the boy east to be raised under the tutelage of the then respected Elder Owyn Lyons. Squire Maxson tends toward timidity, which is the main reason his mother sent him to the Citadel. Part of the reason were internal conflicts in the Brotherhood out west, which created an unsafe environment for Arthur. Ever since arriving at the Citadel, Arthur was an attentive student, with a good knowledge of the Brotherhood's triumphs and history. He has also proven himself to be a keen observer, making accurate observations of the local super mutant threat and even observing a behemoth from the Citadel walls once. Overall, he received a top notch education, thanks to excellent teachers and trainers at the Citadel. Of course, he learned the Codex by heart, though the protocols gave him particular trouble, especially when it came to encounters with outsiders. The Codex deemed them untrustworthy, yet Elder Owyn Lyons was content to violate them as he saw fit, such as when accepting the Lone Wanderer into the Citadel without taking the Oath of Fraternity. For a boy whose only real encounters with outsiders were Brotherhood members visiting the Citadel he was surprised by the decision, but deferred to Elder Lyons' judgement, despite his reservations. He was also trained in combat by Sentinel Sarah Lyons, who on one occasion showed him how to kill people by stabbing them in the kidneys. Despite being a young boy, Maxson was faced with high expectations as the last of the Maxson line. He was expected to become the Brotherhood's great new leader, and he was told his "soul was forged from eternal steel." He never believed this claim. Loneliness also weighed heavily on the young Maxson. As the only child at the Citadel, he grew up surrounded by adults, with no one of equal age to spend time with. Given that everyone he worked with was a soldier, he didn't receive kindness or warmth, merely schooling and training. His closest friend was Liberty Prime, an inanimate robot. Scribe Rothchild banned him from the laboratory, emphasizing the futility of trying to make friends with a machine. He snuck into the Lyons Den to read Paladin Vargas' copy of Guns and Bullets without his knowledge since he wouldn't give it to him otherwise. As a result, the ten-year-old Arthur had a timid and reserved demeanor. It wasn't helped by the fact that the young boy was barred from patrols due to accidentally shooting Sarah during one outing. Arthur's reservations and apprehension helped him maintain a level of politeness and decency that would later translate into unmatched charisma. The key change in Arthur Maxson's life came with adolescence and the death of Elder Owyn Lyons, and subsequently that of Elder Sarah Lyons soon after. While the crumbling Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel chafed under the leadership of one ineffectual elder after another, Maxson rapidly developed his talents. In 2279, at the age of 12, he managed to kill two raiders on a training patrol, saving the squad that was supposed to escort him. A year later, he managed to single-handedly kill a deathclaw, taking grave wounds in the process and a disfiguring scar that marred his face forever. His key achievement came in 2282, at the age of 15, when he killed a super mutant leader named Shepherd, who was trying to reorganize the remnants of the Capital Wasteland super mutant infestation. This achievement revealed another secret: that the West Coast elders were still monitoring their errant brethren. With Maxson's achievement came leadership and promotion to a provisional elder. Though young, Maxson was ready to lead and reunite the fragmented Brotherhood of Steel forces on the East Coast. He proved his ability in 2283, when he brokered a peace with the Brotherhood Outcasts, reintegrating them into the Brotherhood of Steel. The sixteen-year-old Maxson was proving himself as effective a diplomat as a warrior. The full force of the Brotherhood of Steel appointed Arthur Maxson as the elder, the youngest in Brotherhood of Steel history, and supreme commander of the entire Brotherhood of Steel, with the ability to strike anywhere on the East Coast because of the Prydwen, launched just a year before his rise to power. Maxson's authority is reinforced by his accomplishments, growing the Brotherhood in the East from a moribund group of complacent stragglers occupying a single Citadel into a major military force capable of projecting power along the Eastern Seaboard. Thanks to his tenacity and singular vision, the men that serve under his command do so with pride and unmatched loyalty, with one soldier mentioning they were ready to invade hell itself. Although his beard and facial features give him the aura of an older man, Maxson is still close to being a teenager, and he is relatively idealistic as a result. He has established an amalgam between the ways of his predecessor and tutor Elder Owyn Lyons, who used technology to help others, and the traditional Brotherhood approach of coveting and preserving advanced technology to prevent its abuse. As a result, he is more lenient about technology being in the hands of outsiders. He allows teams of soldiers to combat dangers that would otherwise harm or kill the people of the wasteland (even if some of these missions, or the personnel directing them, have some ulterior motives) while he has other teams scouring the ruins for technology that could be misused in the wrong hands. Maxson also strongly insists that the Brotherhood has the best interests of the Commonwealth in mind. He is aware that by coming to the Commonwealth, he will spark a war that will cause severe casualties, but he firmly believes this is necessary to prevent worse conflict in the future. Maxson deeply cares for everyone under his command and does not wish for them to risk their lives unnecessarily. For example, he was reluctant to allow Proctor Ingram into the field despite Knight-Captain Cade's professional opinion that her power armor frame makes her more than suitable for combat. His reasoning was that Ingram's role on the Prydwen was too important, and that it would also endanger her comrades' lives if her frame failed during combat. Additionally, he explicitly ordered that all technology was to be traded for food and medicine, and violent confrontation was to be a last resort, which drastically sets him apart from the West Coast Brotherhood, who used violence as a first resort.

The Prydwen: Weighing in at 40,000 tons, the Prydwen is a rigid-frame dirigible, held aloft by a combination of five giant gasbags inside the frame of the ship and nuclear-powered thrusters. Due to the rarity of helium, the Brotherhood used hydrogen as a lifting gas, with heavy armor surrounding the main deck to protect the gasbags and all the people and equipment stored within from. The heart of the Prydwen is a nuclear fusion plant, providing power to the systems and powering the main engines: Four massive propellers at the stern of the ship, supported by four large thrusters mounted on the flight deck. While Ingram stays ahead of repairs and there's plenty of fuel for the fusion reactor, coolant remains a critical issue, as it may require the Prydwen to land if it runs out. Otherwise, a crash is likely. The Prydwen itself is not built for fighting as any onboard weapon systems would just slow her down. Instead, it relies on its complement of troops, Vertibirds, and supplies to engage threats. The flight deck can service up to four Vertibirds simultaneously. The greatest defense the Prydwen has is the degree of coordination it provides: As the nerve center and supply base, its sensors and computer systems provide a constant stream of intel to field units, while onboard spaces can be readily converted to labs to study the enemy and provide a further edge in battle.