Fallout: Wasteland Hunter's Timeline

Date

Late November 2295 / Early January 2296 Early November 2300 / Early February 2301 (4-5 years)

Location

Boston Commonwealth

Plymouth

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Maine

Result Rebel Victory

Fall of Brotherhood Presence in Commonwealth Territories

Alliances formed with Outside Territories, New Hampshire, Rhode Island ect.

Fallout: Wasteland Hunter's Timeline

October 23, 2077 - The Great War begins and ends, lasting only 2 hours. Most of the planet is razed to the ground from the nuclear weapons used. The Sole Survivor of Fallout 4 and their family escape to Vault 111 before the bombs go off. All of the vaults are sealed.

November 2077 - The Brotherhood of Steel is founded.

(???) 2227 - Residents that were cryogenically frozen in Vault 111 were temporarily unfrozen while agents from the Institute kidnapped the son of the Sole Survivor and murdered their spouse. The Sole Survivor is refrozen while the rest of the residents are left to die without life support.

(???) 2282 -McDonough is elected mayor of Diamond City and banishes ghoul residents.

October 23, 2287 - The Sole Survivor, wakes up and ventures out of Vault 111 to find their son.

April 9th-22th, May 10th 2290 - After a long and painful journey, the Sole Survivor gains information on how to enter the Institute from Brian Virgil, creates a signal interceptor to teleport inside of the Institute where they find Shaun. Despite their best efforts at ascertaining peace, they are forced to destroy the institute.

May 25th-June 21st 2290 - Uneasy peace with the Brotherhood fails after a short truce with the Minutemen. Despite their best efforts at ascertaining peace, the Brotherhood continue hostilities against the commonwealth and her people. Maxson pushes the agenda that now that the Brotherhood lost to the Institute and can’t go back to the Capital Wasteland with nothing, Maxson now wants the Commonwealth and leads the Brotherhood to believe they have to save the people from themselves. Tensions rise

July 4th-12th 2290 - Uneasy peace comes to a boiling point. The Minutemen try to negotiate with the BoS to back down but that doesn’t really go anywhere. Anti-Brotherhood propaganda starts to spread, until the Sole Survivor reluctantly decides to end the conflict and take Maxson, who they now deem a threat, out. On the night of July 4th 2290, on what would have been pre-war independence day, the sole survivor and their comrades devise a plan to take out the BoS, and on the afternoon of July the 12th, the people of the commonwealth take note of the smoldering remains of the Prydwyn slowly tumbling to earth. The BoS is believed to be gone, there's no occurrence of them for almost 2 years, with those once loyal to Maxson, either fleeing the commonwealth, or staying to start new lives without the BoS agenda hanging over them. There is peace.

(Unknown Date)

Following the explosion of the Prydwyn, Elder Maxson, former leader of the BoS, manages to escape the burning wreckage of the ship with his life. Beaten and broken with large swaths of his memory missing or in fragments due to a massive head injury he sustained in the crash, he is soon found by scientists who have stayed loyal to the FATHER in silence.

However, with large pieces of his memories gone and with a massive head injury drastically changing his thoughts and morals, the former leader of the BoS end's up striking up an unlikely (possibly one sided) partnership as Maxson heals from his injuries and he soon finds himself becoming the muscle of the whole operation, all with the promise of revenge against the vault dweller who put him in this situation in the first place. Gathering up all those left loyal to him, Maxson picks up whatever he can and moves both the scientists and his men as far from the Commonwealth as he possibly can. With the added support, what would have taken the scientists years to play and plan takes shy of only 5

(???) 2295: The Brotherhood make a surprise visit to the Commonwealth, 5 years after Maxson's supposed defeat and death. War Looms.

The Brotherhood linger for months, once again imposing ‘taxes’ (forcing settlers to give up their crops), in order to pursue a campaign in “cleansing” the Commonwealth, which leads to settlers getting rightfully agitated. More “taxes” and more hostile means of obtaining them in order to keep this campaign going leads to the Commonwealth getting angrier and angrier. Common consensus at this point returns to what it was years before, they don’t want war, they just want the Brotherhood to get out. Anti-Brotherhood propaganda once again starts to surface, only instead with more tragic results Boston Massacre 2295: A squadron of Brotherhood soldiers on patrol are surrounded by angry settlers who throw ice, rocks, and beat them with whatever they can find on them. One initiate mistakes a rock for a grenade and fires onto the crowd, causing the other soldiers to fire as well, believing it was ordered by their captain. When the dust settles, 15 settlers are dead. An image similar to the one below is spread by Good Neighbor, the Railroad, and Piper. There is outrage across the Commonwealth.

Tea Act 2.0: Maxson attempts to give the Brotherhood a monopoly on arms trade to stop the Minutemen from catching up, which does not end well and leads to…

Commonwealth Tea Party: The Railroad, folks from Good Neighbor, a few from Diamond City, and a group of Minutemen dump Brotherhood supplies into Boston Harbor. Mayor Hancock from Goodneighbor is the main organizer of the event.

Intolerable Acts (early 2296): Maxson attempts to cut off the inner Boston area, specifically Diamond City and Good Neighbor (Railroad included) from Minutemen trading routes as punishment until the debts could be paid. Some in Diamond City hope to pay off the Brotherhood and blame the rebels, while in Good Neighbor, all hell breaks loose. Diamond City shortly defaults to the Brotherhood not long after, becoming more Pro-Brotherhood and Anti-Mutant and Rebel then it has ever had.

Piper and Deacon’s Midnight Ride: Growing uncomfortable with the amount of technology and guns the Minutemen acquired after the defeat of the Institute and anticipating a war, Maxson orders that the Brotherhood go to Sanctuary and confiscate it. Noticing the Brotherhood’s activity shifting and getting a suspicious inside source (Haylen) Deacon and Piper head out nights before to warn Sanctuary. The guns and technology are transferred to another settlement. Maxson is furious

Shot Heard Round the East Coast: Marching up to Sanctuary, the Brotherhood are surprised with an ambush at Lexington and Concord. The first shot in the The Second War for American Independence and the Second Siege of Boston begins. The people prepare for war

Battle of Bunker Hill: The Brotherhood, hoping to eliminate the Railroad, take Bunker Hill. The Railroad and Minutemen try to hold on but are overwhelmed, suffering heavy losses, however, they are able to kill a significant amount of Brotherhood soldiers.

Anyone allying themselves with the Rebels are deemed traitors. POW camps start to form, owned and run by vicious members of the BoS Elite. In response, local militias and other resistance groups spring up to combat the BoS's garrison force. The United Commonwealth Council is formed as those loyal to a Free Commonwealth come together to unite under the Minutemen and form a military that can take on the Brotherhood. While the Sole Survivor, still General, remains in charge of the military, with Preston as their right hand man, they agree to model this new American experiment a democratic republic. The Commonwealth is truly born. Officially founded in the Old State House in 2296, at the initiative of the Minutemen and the Sole Survivor, the democratic republic is signed under what would later be called the "Goodneighbor Treaty". Present at the meeting :

Mayor J. Hancock (representing the territory of Goodneighbor)

P. Wright (despite uneasy relations with the city, she is made to represent Diamond City, becoming it's unofficial mayor, until the end of the war, where she officially takes place in the role of mayor)

The Sole Survivor and Lieutenant-General Garvey (rep. the Minutemen)

Additional members of the council or those who have sided themselves with the Minutemen Cause include:

The Mayor of Collegetown, under recommendation of Mayor Hancock attends the meeting, agreeing only to a partnering if the neighboring settlements agree that once the war is over in favor of their side, that they make preparations for some kind of agreement on limiting pollution and overhunting/fishing/etc, and the possibility of expanding the reach of the Doctors Guild, as well as allowing resources allocated for rail or some method of transport so the people have a easier method of trekking. The demands are agreed too.

With the need of added fire power, the minutemen (with some hesitation) enlist the help of the Gunner Faction, lead by Captain Wes. An uneasy truce due to the Minutemen's and the Gunner's history after the betrayal by former ten-year veteran of the Commonwealth Minutemen under Colonel Hollis, Lieutenant Clint, which contributed to the Gunners' hostile takeover of Quincy. However prior to the events of the BoS war, the gunners went through some serious internal reorganizing after the Mayor of Collegetown managed to successfully knock out a bunch of leadership, thus causing many of the members to scramble and thus forcing the gunners to submit to the minutemen in exchange for their lives. Their firepower become much needed allies.

Dr Brian Virgil, believing that he owes the sole survivor his loyalty for aiding him, as well as becoming very concerned with the growing rise in unsettling new mutants popping up all across the Commonwealth, allies himself towards the cause in favor of the Minutemen. He leaves his lab and instead heads to Collegetown, where he does his best to aid it's scientists in new ways to combat the mutant's. He is accompanied by ex-institute scientists, who are equally both fearful and appalled by the current events.

Strong enlists the help of his "brothers". . at least those who did not want and wish to see him dead due to allying himself towards humans. Word begins to spread, and as allies for the minutemen come from Far Harbor, friendly Super Mutants travel from across the Commonwealth as well, using their super mutant strength to aid in keeping the new Mutants at bay. Erickson being one such mutant, comes from the island and uses his experience being a trapper to help aid human settlements in defense.

Despite all the effort from allies and a persistent push, the Second Siege of Boston or as it became known as the years went on as The Great Brotherhood War dragged on for 4 bloody years until the Allies and Resistance Leaders at last finally defeated Maxson and his soldiers in late 2300. Within the last two years of the war, The final battles of the war as well as the overall surrender of Brotherhood to the Allies/Rebels, took place in late November of 2300 and early January of 2301 Within this timeframe
Rebels had begun to take large numbers of BoS prisoners: The total number of prisoners taken is not exactly known, with numbers said to have ranged anywhere from as low as 4,000 or as high as 25,000 or even higher, often including many who had surrendered to the Rebels. By early November, the first Allied-governed POW camps had become established in Boston to hold what was said to be hundreds of thousands of captured or surrendered Brotherhood forces personnel. By middle November, they had reclassified all prisoners as Disarmed Enemy Forces, a pre-war designation term for soldiers who surrendered to an adversary after hostilities ended, and for those POWs who had already surrendered and were held in camps.

The Great Flu Pandemic of 2300: In September of 2300, a pandemic broke out near the end of the war. In a time where the war had reached a critical point, an exceptionally deadly influenza pandemic confirmed to have been caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus, had broken out in the barracks and had spread like wildfire. The virus traveled with military personnel from camp to camp and across the state, and at the height of the war, September 2300 through March 2301, influenza and pneumonia sickened 20% to 40% of nearly all citizens and military personnel. While Leaders of both sides tried hard to censor and suppress bad news in the belligerent settlements in order to maintain morale, this pandemic had an unusually high mortality for young adults, and even younger children. Malnourishment, overcrowded medical camps and hospitals, and poor hygiene, exacerbated by the war, was said to have promoted bacterial superinfection, killing most of the victims after a typically prolonged death bed. The Pandemic was also credited as being one of the main reasons for the war actually ending, with stress and panic causing many to surrender in the hopes that the war would come to an end. Despite that however, many had died due to the disease. By March of 2301, 6 months since the outbreak had started, many settlements begun reporting a drop in flu patients before the disease finally was under control.

The Rescue of a High Ranking UCC Rebel Leader:
Said to be one of the most major turning points in the war, the kidnapping and then rescue of one of the war's most prominent resistance members is said to have been one of the most important events to have occurred during the war. Resistance movements during The Great Brotherhood War occurred in every occupied settlement the war touched by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns.
Many small groups sprung up in the 4 years the war raged on, but one of the most famous was the The Public Insurgents a network of multiple resistance groups that opposed the Brotherhood of Steel occupation in the New American Territories, more specifically within the Boston Commonwealth and it’s surrounding territories. Often known just as The Resistance, it was a loose covert network of humans and ghouls with the shared goal of defeating the Brotherhood and restoring what relative freedom and peace they had within the Commonwealth. Founded by a handful of people ranging from civilians to ex-military personnel within an unknown period of time after established Brotherhood rule, The Resistance is a highly decentralized, loose network of guerrillas, outlaws, spies, and citizens dedicated to overthrowing the Brotherhood's rule. While unable to undermine and combat many of the Brotherhoods more impressive new machinery and technology directly, the Resistance has made it a habit on causing as much trouble for them as possible, whether it be tasks such as infiltrating the ranks of the BoS directly or by simply smuggling weapons stolen from the Brotherhood to set up supply caches for other members, and helped civilians escape Brotherhood controlled cities. Despite this, according to some, the Brotherhood was aware of the Resistance and its activities, but their efforts to undermine them were so largely ineffective on the whole, that the Brotherhood did not consider them an appreciable threat. Nevertheless, they largely suppressed Resistance activities at every opportunity, raiding the homes of suspected resistance members or sympathizers, and destroying Resistance outposts. in 2296, a year or so into the war, a glowing ghoul found himself thrust into myth-hood, after he ended up wounding a High Star general during his escape from a POW camp, essentially becoming a “Myth Figure'' for the people suffering at the hands of the BoS, becoming a man of very high regard amongst Resistance members, something of a personal hero to them, due to the fact that he was able to not only survive such horrible conditions, but was able to rescue all those he could. As the war went on, the Ghoul became one of the key leaders in the fight against the Brotherhood's near totalitarian rule. The Resistance generally operated as a shadow movement similar to many terrorists or rebel organizations in the modern world; unable to take on the Brotherhood directly, the Resistance sought to undermine it by strategic moves. The Resistance, led by the glowing ghoul held several strong points in and around the Boston Commonwealth and it’s surrounding territories, and it was often said that thanks to them the war had gone in favor of the UCC Allied Soldiers. However, in November 2300, after nearly 4 years of eluding the BoS, the glowing ghoul was captured, having been betrayed by his estranged father and sold out to the Brotherhood, in exchange with a better more “Fitting House” up north where he wouldn’t have to worry about the fighting even praising the BoS for giving him respect and a reputation, despite it being made out in blood from selling out his neighbors and many other “Enemies of the BoS Cause”, or anyone who the BoS deemed a enemy. Having been captured, the ghoul endured two days of repeated torture for information but nothing is rumored to have been revealed. Afterward, He is taken to a Brotherhood run court where the judge sentences him to be put to death for his crimes. On November the 15th, set to be publicly executed in a compound for crimes against the BoS, the ghoul ends up being saved by members of the The Public Insurgents, including the Mayor of Collegetown, who is it revealed to have been in a relationship with them. Despite best efforts he is significantly injured during the escape attempt. Despite this, he survives the destruction of the compound and is rescued before the compound is engulfed in flame. However his injuries put him in a coma for nearly 4 months. He's not awake to be the first to learn the war is over. He's not awake to be the first to learn when Maxson is finally dead, However his actions against the BoS had cemented him as an inspiration for thousands of people, with him becoming a notable symbol of rebellion, and with his rescue becoming something of a folk-lore story.
Liberation of POW camps and rescuing of refugees: The advancement into BoS war-owned territory uncovered numerous camps and forced labor facilities owned and run by BoS personnel. At the end of the war, up to 60,000 prisoners, some from Boston's main territory and many kidnapped from other parts of the country for some reason or another, were reported to have been rescued- however, due to the prisoners' poor physical condition, thousands continued to die even after liberation. In one such BoS run facility, it was reported that Rebel forces were forced to manually euthanize over 200 prisoners who had been used in atrocious Brotherhood scientific experiments and were left in horrible condition, either mutated beyond belief or used as Guinea Pigs for various other scientific experiments. Estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary, because many deaths went unrecorded. Many of the civilians tallied, were confirmed to have died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass bombings, disease, and starvation. It is also known that the total number of Ghoul and Supermutant populations as well as the total number of many large mutated animal species had been almost cut completely in half by the end of the war for the exact same reasons. In addition during the war, a number of BoS physicians conducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of prisoners without their permission. Experiments centered around three topics: survival of military personnel, testing of drugs and treatments, and the advancement of BoS ideological goals. Typically, the experiments were conducted without anesthesia and resulted in death, trauma, disfigurement, or permanent disability, and as such were considered examples of medical torture. Those tortured were eventually experimented on and supposedly used as military weapons. Because of this, captured guards were subsequently tried in what would essentially be war crimes tribunals where many were sentenced to death. Some guards and personnel were murdered outright upon the discovery of their crimes. However BoS war criminals still manage to flee. In one such incident, During the POW liberation reprisals, BoS prisoners of war were killed by Rebel soldiers and camp internees at the Force Labor facility Karma. It is unclear how many BoS members were killed in the incident but most estimates place the number killed at around 35–50. In the days before the camp's liberation, Guards at the camp had forced 7,000 inmates on a death march that resulted in the death of many from exposure and shooting. When UCC allied soldiers liberated Karma, they were variously shocked, horrified, disturbed, and angered at finding the massacred corpses of internees, and by the combativeness of some of the remaining guards who allegedly fired on them. The smell of decaying bodies and excrement, as well as the sight of naked, brutalized emaciated bodies induced vomiting, crying, disbelief, and rage in the advancing troops. The advancing soldiers used a loudspeaker to call on the BoS to surrender peacefully, but they reportedly continued to fire in bursts, until the soldiers were forced to fire back, killing a reported 35-50 guardsmen or more before the BoS personnel finally gave up and surrendered. Such incidents would occur frequently until the war officially ended.

Maxson's Death and Brotherhood Surrender Several changes in leadership occurred during the month of December, two months before the war officially ended. On the 12th of December, 27 days after the liberation of the The Public Insurgents highest leveled leader from Camp Rothchild, following the massive breakout, it's leader, Paladin Warren, believed to be injured in the explosion that had leveled Rothchild was captured by Advancing Ally Forces. On the 15th of December, with the spread of the news of the arrest of one of the war's most notorious criminals, Paladin Warren, was found guilty of multiple counts of war crimes along with 15 other Brotherhood members captured at the Camp. Differing accounts exist of who made the decision that Warren should be summarily executed, and although several conflicting versions and theories of how he died were put forward after the war, the account of minuteman recruit Walter Engel, or at least its essential components, remains the most credible and is sometimes referred to in memories as the "official" version. According to Walter's account, Walter presented Warren as acting in a cowardly manner immediately prior to his death, but was also quoted as saying
His face was like wax and his stare glassy, but somehow blind. I read utter exhaustion, but not fear ... instead he seemed completely lacking in will, spiritually dead, far from the man who they would tell horror stories about in the year's to come
Paladin Warren was killed by firing squad later that day along with 10 of the 15 Brotherhood members who he had been tried with, the whereabouts of the other 5 all range from them dying due to their injuries or committing suicide soon after their trial's had been complete. The shootings took place in a small undisclosed settlement and were conducted by a partisan leader who to this day remains anonymous. Later that day, the bodies of Warren and all the other executed Brotherhood members were loaded into a carriage in the early hours of December 16th were dumped on the ground of Settlement Wimborne. The choice of location was deliberate, as fifteen partisans had been shot there in August in retaliation for partisan attacks and Allied bombing raids, and their bodies had then been left on public display, an event Paladin Warren was said to have been apart of. The corpse of the deposed leader was subjected to intense ridicule and abuse. Their bodies were left in a heap, and by 9:00 a.m. a considerable crowd had gathered. The corpses were pelted with vegetables, spat at, urinated on, shot at and kicked; Warren's face disfigured by beatings. After being kicked and spat upon, the bodies were then hoisted up onto the metal girder framework of an old processing plant. The bodies were then stoned from below by civilians. This was said to have been done both to discourage any Brotherhood from continuing the fight, and also as an act of revenge for the hanging of many partisans in the same place by Brotherhood authorities. Allied forces began arriving during the course of the morning and an eyewitness described the crowd as "sinister, depraved, out of control, but stunningly. . joyful.". These event's became commonplace in the months leading up to the end of the war, with many high ranking members of the BoS attempting to flee the Commonwealth using ratlines, with many going into hiding. Despite this, captured guards were subsequently tried at war crimes tribunals where many were sentenced to death. But the most famous death to have come from the war's end was none other than Elder Maxson's. The Battle for Boston ended with Ally occupation and Brotherhood unit cease fires: Although the military commanders of most Brotherhood forces obeyed the order to surrender, not all commanders did so and continued to fight on in the name of Maxson. However what they did not know is that in the early hours of December the 20th, 5 days after the killing of one of his highest commanders by firing squad. Maxson, having renamed himself High Elder in the years following the war, fled into the winter night, seeming to vanish without a trace, seemingly knowing all was lost and not wishing to suffer the same fate as his general. A week later, after an extensive manhunt, Maxson reappeared again suddenly. The thought of losing the war drove him mad, pushing him over the edge and driving him to do something most unthinkable. When he was discovered aimlessly wandering around, Maxson was in the throes of Radiation Poisoning, having injected himself with a variant of a FEV-Serum. Pushed into a corner and unable to shake-off his pursuers, Maxson attacked those attempting to either capture or kill him, his anger only increased at the thought that they would rather pursue him - someone who, as he felt, was trying to do what was right for the world - as opposed to a true terrorist like "The Sole Survivor and Their Lackeys." Succumbing to his infection as the enhanced yet unstable variant of FEV consumed his body, his entire structure began to split and fracture until his body ultimately mutated into a horrific monstrosity, his body mass twisting and contorting as he tripled in size, becoming the thing he hated the most. A Mutant. Intent on vengeance, Maxson followed the Allies, killing or severely injuring all those who stood in his way, before making his way back to Boston. Ultimately, however, even his mutant form was not enough, and he was fatally wounded. Having gone through 3 additional mutations within a 10 hour time span, Maxson tried futilely to mutate again in order to save his life, but lacked the strength to do so as the wounds he sustained slowly bled him out until he finally succumbed to death. After 4 years of intense bloodshed, the war was finally over. Maxson had finally been killed and thus, completely defeated with the loss of the last of the Maxson bloodline, the remaining Brotherhood members fled. Those deemed trustworthy enough were allowed to stay behind as Minutemen, forever giving up the Steel Cog Banner.
AFTERMATH

The Boston Peace Conference ended on 15 February 2301 with the signing of peace treaties by the wartime Allies and surviving members of the BoS Regiment. The aftermath of The Second Siege of Boston was the beginning of a new era for all involved, defined by the decline of nearly all Brotherhood occupation in Boston and the simultaneous rise of a new nation. In the year following the end of the war, the settlements of New England decided to finally put aside their differences and create something that would unite them all ... a nation. Every settlement from Maine to Connecticut signed a Constitution uniting New England as one later that year. By 2303, the UCC (The United Commonwealth Council) had expanded throughout much of the former state of New England. Furthermore - after an expansive restoration and security initiative - the city of Boston had become a functional capital.
Formation of the Iron Collar
After the war, many high-profile Brotherhood members succeeded in escaping justice for their crimes, with many fleeing by airship or on foot out of Boston to either return to BoS headquarters and never be seen again, or laying under radar in the years following the end of the war. Because of this, private groups-some led by survivors of BoS camps, took it upon themselves and started to establish organizations whose objective was to hunt down BoS war criminal's shortly after the war ended. Mostly, many of them tracked down and gathered information on alleged former BoS, or BoS collaborators who were involved in the atrocities of the war, typically for use at trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, however not all did. The Iron Collar also known as the Stonetalons, were one of the most successful and well known BoS Hunting parties that established itself within the territory of inner Boston. Matthias Torsten and others established the Stonetalons a few months after the war, where he and others gathered information for future war crime trials and aided refugees in their search for lost relatives.

Matthias Torsten
Often credited as being one of the most successful BoS hunter's, after the war, Torsten dedicated his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive war criminals so that they could be hunted down and in many cases terminated _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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