The Iron Bros
The Bros are a traveling band of good Samaritans trying to bring light back into the world through kindness, peace, and sharing. The Bros are not a military order in the usual sense, preferring negotiating, calmness and, what some would describe as, hippyism. However, they are not above pacifying un-broish organizations. They fight together, in units, defending each other, striking with massive blades, bludgeons, and martian power armor.
Structure
Ha ha ha. The Bros have a laughably informal hierarchy with literally no titles. They are organized around the traveling vans and hippy buses they live out of. Usually with a driver making decisions, a healer cooking drugs, a musician providing moral judgement calls and spirit-lifting songs, and the power-armor operator. All are trained to fight, know how to be a good Bro, and drive, if necessary, but their specialization allows the most skilled to do what they do best, rather than complete equity.
Public Agenda
They want people to be Bros, Bro.
Assets
Material assets of the Bros include dozens of soldiers, razor-sharp axes, two-handed swords, traded martian power armor, food, a fleet of armored hippy buses, a Church, loads of ruined buildings, and a sheep farm.
History
The Iron Bros were formed out of a hippy bus full of kumbaya-singing Marijuana addicts broke down and ran out of Weed outside a Buddhist Monastery about forty years after the government went dark. The Buddhists relinquished their vows in favor of survival in the Wild. The Hippies and Buddhists partnered with a Catholic High School, a Hardware Store, a lumber yard and a Knife shop. They gave up chastity to produce the next generation of survivors, the gave up cowardice and pacifism in favor of survival and gave up their raw resources for some sweet sweet martian power armor. Hence the Iron part of their name.
The rest of their history is small stories of them being good Samaritans. Lending their hatchets, machetes, homemade swords, chainsaws, even power armor in desperate times, or helping people out with these assets, lending food in exchange for help in the future, giving sick people rides to medical facilities, and generally spreading hope, love, and Pot smoke (some times) around the Wasteland. Everybody can be a bro if they just act like it.
Territories
The Bros move in a fleet of hippy buses, some pulled by horses. They are nomadic and hold no territory.
Military
The Iron Bros run a battalion of Mars-made power armor armed by heavy two-handed axes, hand-forged swords, clubs, and chainsaws. They occasionally use ranged weapons, but more often they prefer to fight honestly, up close. they also shun explosives as causing too much collateral damage, being finicky with the state of modern bomb-making, and for all these reasons, they are considered thoroughly un-Broish.
Un-power-armored foot soldiers use hatchets, knives, crowbars, hammers, wrenches, I saw one guy used a chair, and deploy out of the back of hippy buses to guard supply drops to needy villages.
The other main branch of their military is their armored hippy buses. The Buses are plated in steel, concrete, and conventional body armor. Literally, kevlar vests bolted to the sides of the doors. These vans are exempt from the ranged weapons ban, though not the stigma, and use both chainsaws attached to ports in the walls so that they can cut the un-broish down from vehicles, and they have crossbow-armed turrets mounted on the tops of some exceptionally important vans.
Religion
The actual religious doctrine of the Bros is referred to as Broism. Technically an offshoot of both Zen Buddhism and United Protestant Christianity, it incorporates elements from the Cult of the Lyncherman, the Roman Catholic Church, the teachings of various Gurus, and Tai Chi, just for fun.
The religion centers on the parable of the Good Samaritan. They believe that through the power of being a Bro, the world can become a much better place. They loan their stuff to people who will return it in good working order, and of proper Broishness so that only those who will help others will get help. They help the beggar, the farmer, the Jew beaten down on the roadside, not the Levite who walks by them, the hypocritical Priest who sermons for charity but does not show it, and definitely not the bandit. The bandit is unbroish, and gets killed.
Gotta be a Bro, Bro.
Founding Date
Around Year 40 post-infection.
Type
Social, Brotherhood
Alternative Names
The Bros.
Training Level
Semi-trained
Demonym
Bros
Government System
Democracy, Direct
Power Structure
Autonomous area
Economic System
Barter system
Currency
They trade goods, real ones like loaves of bread or knives.
Neighboring Nations
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