On January 7, 2077, all West-Tek military research was moved to the newly-constructed Mariposa Military Base, along with Spindel's team, to enhance the research's security. Army to monitor the experiments being conducted there by West-Tek on behalf of the American government in the interest of national security. He was a member of a military team commanded by Colonel Robert Spindel, originally sent to the West-Tek research facility on Januby the U.S. The founder of the Brotherhood of Steel was Captain Roger Maxson of the United States Army. Later, after Lyon's death, the Brotherhood returned to its original goal of collecting and controlling technology, and invaded the Commonwealth with the goal of destroying the Institute and the synthetic humans, or synths that they created. The Brotherhood of Steel was well known in D.C for fighting off the Super-Mutants and the Enclave. Their true objectives were to find any old technology from before the Great War with the goal of recreating civilization and controlling it to ensure a disaster the likes of the war is not repeated, but Owyn Lyons believed that the Brotherhood should help the people of DC with their struggles against the Super Mutants. The Brotherhood of Steel was a Techno-Religious organization created after the Great War.
