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(Killercorvette here. Still working on the humongous backstory for the Empire. But, for something different, I've decided to do another faction summary thread)
I. Summary
New Boston is the name of a highly advanced city populated by several factions working together for the greater good of the city. These factions are given simple names to clearly dictate their purpose. The Institute, The Government, The Plantation, and The Factory. They originate from the former students and staff of MIT and the majority of current citizens descend from former vault dwellers that were evacuated to the city after the war. (more will be explained once I start on the Institute's backstory)
The goals of the faction . The Institute itself concerns itself only with scientific matters, such as developing new technologies such as the revolutionary Android. The Government rules it's citizens with an iron fist, and works to fight off the threat the Empire poses. The Plantation works to supplement humans with necessary food, using slave labor from androids. The Factory works to produce the technologies, and it's primary goal is to figure out a way to mass produce the Android, which is currently impossible.
It's citizens are very patriotic, and see New Boston as the last remnant of the American dream. The wastelanders on the outside see New Boston as both a mystery and a bogeyman. Wasters are shot on sight if they approach the walls. Military units operating on the outside aren't as strict, but do not tolerate "meddling from savages."
They are led currently by Derrick Zane, an "elected" official. However, he is a puppet, all things considered. Just a voice and acting hand to "The Chairman" who is unknown to all except the higher-class members of the New Boston society. The Chairman is Professor Jacob Hightower, the founder of New Boston. His best project is his discovery that the human mind can be converted to a digital format in a process called "Brain Emulating" or "Mind Uploading". All it's memories, instincts, knowledge, and the conscience of it's former owner can manifest itself in any computer product it comes into contact with. The Chairman stays out of most of the minor affairs in New Boston, but essentially rules the faction.
II. Laws and Regulations
The laws of New Boston match those of pre-war America, mostly. However, the totalitarian state rules all. Public denouncing of any faction in New Boston is forbidden. Anyone who does mysteriously go missing, never to be seen again. Victims of the Bureau of Internal Order Enforcement, which is basically a branch of secret police. Talk of leaving New Boston is forbidden. They are also abducted by BIOE members, pronounced "missing". In reality, they are stripped naked and forced into exile by walking away from the city out into the wastes. No one survives this.
Elections are held for the leader of New Boston. These elections, however, are rigged. Voters are free to vote for either candidate, however, the candidates are picked by The Chairman. The Chairman chooses someone he knows will enforce his order and will. This person is usually attractive, charismatic, a man of the people, and politically strong. His opponent is almost always unattractive, awkward, politically incompetent, and will most likely suggest unappealing policies. This makes the choice almost completely obvious for voters.
III. Condition
The faction is prospering on the surface. It's citizens live a happy, american life even better than the average before the war. Unemployment is at 1%, and nearly everyone can afford nice homes in the suburbs and a car to commute to work. Test grades in schools are at an all time high, and many children of this generation are shaping up for high-level positions in The Institute or The Government. The military are at a stalemate with the Empire, but it's strength is growing as The Factory produces more Androids and robots for the frontlines as well as the growing number of human volunteers enlisting due to a rise in nationalism. Morale is at an all time high because of this, and propaganda only makes it better.
However, problems are showing itself. The Empire has found ways inside New Boston. Almost on a daily basis, Imperial spies and saboteurs commit an act of terrorism in the city. Cars are bombed, government buildings are shot up, and assassination attempts with varying results are tried everyday. Androids are also becoming self-aware at an alarming rate, with many successfully fleeing from New Boston. The Synth Retention Bureau has been overworked. The Plantation's workers, mostly Androids, have also been rumored to be coercing with infiltrators from both the Empire and the Railroad. The slums near The Plantation have been ripe with violence, usually self-aware Androids against human patrolmen.
IV. Soldiers, Equipment, Tactics, and Technology
New Boston is the most technologically advanced faction in America, and possibly the world. They have developed suits of power armor almost twice as powerful as the T-51b model that can be mass produced cheaply. They have developed many new weapons, particularly lasers and plasma-based. Advanced versions of cars, robots, vertibirds, and even buildings are the norm. The resources for all of this technology comes from a number of sources. Underground tunnels stretch for miles, leading mining robots to pre-war mines and production plants.
It's most impressive technological invention is the Android or Synthetic Human. For 180 years, they were in development. The first one was debuted in 2257. They were developed to serve humans in any way possible. Soldiers, farmers, industrial workers, exotic pleasure, and everything in between. However, one fatal flaw in their design is their free-will capabilities. Many Androids become self-aware, and flee from their masters. Other Androids usually hunt them down, seeing how expensive they are, but many still do hide away.
One Android in particular has recently gone missing. This special unit was in design since 2161. One of New Boston's other pieces of innovative technology, A.R.T.E.E (Advanced Ranging Technological and Expeditionary Eyebot), is about the size of a baseball. It travels high in the air, at fast speeds. His primary goal was to find "remarkable persons" in the wasteland and copy their personalities, techniques, and styles for the special synthetic. A.R.T.E.E has scanned five people for the project.
In 2161 through 2163, he followed a man that emerged from a vault to find a water chip and stop a mutant army in California. In 2197, he began shadowing a unique individual belonging to the Midwest chapter of the famed Brotherhood of Steel. The curious little robot found himself on the West coast again, and began monitoring a wandering tribal in 2241. In 2277, he entered the highly under-developed area of Washington D.C. There, he began scanning many people, but found few of them worthy of following. However, he eventually found a refugee from a local vault and followed him around during his surprisingly adventurous journeys. The scientists needed one last individual. A.R.T.E.E, following his instinct, headed towards the West coast for one last time. He began to give up his search, until he found a courier with a local delivery firm. He monitored this one closely, until he decided he had enough data in 2282.
When all the memories were compiled, the Android was built. It was to take all the abilities it had been given and serve the role as something of a super soldier, a master politician, and any other skills the borrowed personas had. In 2290, it was finally finished. However, before it could be trained to hone such abilities, it had mysteriously disappeared from New Boston. SRB hunters are still in a desperate search mission.
The New Boston military is divided in several ways. When the military first started, The Chairman thought of an experiment leaning on a Darwinist viewpoint. Why not send out soldiers with inferior equipment for a few years to operate outside the city, the survivors will return from the campaign, and be granted a "veteran" status. These veterans will form the main army, utilizing the best equipment possible. The strongest soldiers survive and are granted the responsibility of full service, while the weaker ones perish in the line of duty.
Robots and seemingly unconventional methods are used as well. Prowler "Killbots" are very effective death machines. Designed by both scientists and psychologists, the appearance of the robot it designed to instill fear in it's enemies. They are outfitted with high-pitched emitters, which give off a loud "scream" that can be heard from ways away. War Breeders are lower-ranking scientists pushed into service. Using advanced methods in entomology, they quickly deploy egg sacs containing mutated insects. They then deploy a special gas agent, which hatches them and ages them into adults almost immediately.
Tactics are typically undervalued. Veteran Troopers guard the walls of the city, while the regulars engage enemies in multiple spots on the outside. Combat is usually done on a squad or platoon-sized scale, as the military tries to overpower their enemies with firepower and equipment instead of tactical superiority or sheer numbers like the Empire does. Basic flanking and vertibird reinforcements are usually as impressive as it gets.
City Watchman (Citizens that patrol around, alert for internal distress):
Watchman's Uniform
Watchman's Cap
Laser Pistol
Police Baton
Police Officer:
Police Jumpsuit
Police Helmet
12.27mm Pistol
or
Plasma Defender
or
Wattz Laser Pistol
Police Baton
or
Riot Shield
Bostonian Trooper:
Mk1 Power Armor
or
Mk1 Energy Armor
Mk1 Helmet
Laser Rifle
or
Plasma Rifle
or
Tri-Beam Laser Rifle
or
DMR
or
Plasma Burner
or
Laser Repeater
Plasma Pistol
Plasma Grenades
Bostonian Veteran Trooper:
Mk2 Power Armor
or
Mk2 Energy Armor
Mk2 Helmet
Plasma Carbine
or
Wattz Laser Rifle
or
Multiplas Rifle
or
Gatling Laser
or
Plasma Caster
or
LAESR
Wattz Laser Pistol
LAEGs
Protoblade
Bostonian Field Officer
NB Officer's Armor
NB Officer's Hat
Plasma Defender
Prowler Killbot
Claw blades
Magnetic claws
High-pitched emitter
Gatling Laser (Combat variant)
Mesmotron (Android-hunting variant)
Stealth Boy (Assassin variant)
War Breeder
All-purpose Science Suit
Laser Pistol
Growth Agent
Bloatfly Eggs
or
Radscorpion Eggs
or
Giant Radscorpion Eggs
or
Tarantula Eggs
or
Giant Albino Radscorpion Eggs
-/(Someone's rocking my dreamboat. Disturbing a beautiful calm)\- |