What If: The Brotherhood of Steel became the Steel Plague?
Premise: In 2161, Brotherhood leader Rhombus is killed in action. New leadership pushes the Brotherhood of Steel in a vile direction, becoming the "Steel Plague". The Steel Plague establish a cruel dictatorship in the West and soon after attack the newborn New California Republic, crippling it and ensuring that technology would be kept solely in their hands. How would the Brotherhood's turn into the Steel Plague affect Wasteland history? Would they still send out parties to form chapters elsewhere, now gunning for control of former America, or would their fanaticism keep them secluded in the West, desperate to control every last piece of tech there before moving on?
Key Notes:
•All changed events are post-2281, as in the bad Brotherhood ending the Steel Plague attacks the NCR twenty years after the events of the original Fallout.