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Lanius's Cohort
Full Name: Lanius's Cohort, Eastern Legion (Renegade path), Res Publica (Twin Mothers path)
Ideology: Ruler
Lanius has served Caesar well in the conquests of Arizona, but his master has given him a sacred task. In Caesar's name, he shall march against New Mexico, Colorado, and, perhaps, Texas. And when it is over, he shall weep, for there are no more worlds to conquer. Until Caesar calls him west, to test the strength of the East against the Bear.- Benevolent Conspiracy: The "Cult of Diana" can not only gain more influence, but also use it to help spur Lanius himself to be a better leader.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: Downplayed. Though the Cohort's existence speaks much of the trust Caesar places in Lanius, it's implied that it's also meant to ensure he and his followers don't grow too powerful.
- Renegade Splinter Faction: If Lanius breaks away from Caesar to form the Eastern Legion, it has even less pretensions to civilization than Caesar's vision, and is functionally more akin to a glorified warband. Tellingly, the faction that emerges is known as Lanius's Hordes.
- The Republic: If Lanius is given the right incentives to pursue a more intellectual path, Lanius's Cohort will become the Res Publica, which has ironically much more pretensions to living up to Rome than Caesar's Legion.
- Start My Own: Depending on which decisions and focuses are taken, Lanius's Cohort can break off from Caesar to pursue its own destiny in various forms.
- Timed Mission: Lanius's Cohort is given orders directly from Caesar himself to accomplish within a certain number of days, such as seizing Denver. Failure to do so will automatically result in the Legion cutting ties with, if not declaring war on, Lanius for his failure or insubordination.
Lanius
Ideology: Ruler
- Adaptational Intelligence: In the original game, Lanius is made out to be just smart enough to be aware of the Legion's issues but not actually having the capacity to be anything other than a warmonger. Here, not only is it possible for him to be rumored to be smarter than Caesar but he's capable of taking steps to educate himself and learn to become a genuinely capable ruler.
- The Alliance: In the Res Publica path, Lanius winds up forging a pact with the Twin Mothers, which subsequently rechristens itself as the Cult of Diana.
- Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: If given the right incentives, Lanius could ironically prove himself a more decent leader than Caesar, especially in the Res Publica path.
- The Dragon: He's Caesar's most powerful subordinate, and is trusted enough to be granted command over his own branch of the Legion. Whether that trust is well-placed, however, is up in the air.
- The Dreaded: Lanius' reputation has spread far and wide across the wasteland. Even the formidable remnants of Attis' super-mutant army in Texas dread the prospect of facing him in open battle.
- Heel Realization: In the Res Publica path, Lanius comes to the realization that he must be more than a brutal warlord and aspires to be something more.
- Hidden Depths: In addition to being a competent commander, Lanius is shown to be much more intelligent than his ruthless persona would suggest. This becomes much more pronounced if he's given incentives to take after Caesar, learn more from books, and heed Diana's advice.
- The Starscream: Lanius isn't quite content to continue rendering onto Caesar. He could opt to break free from Caesar outright, or usurp him as the true head of the Legion.
- Surpassed the Teacher: If Lanius opts to follow Caesar's example through more intellectual pursuits, he'll not only realize just how flawed the Legion is, but also establish the Res Publica based on an ironically more accurate understanding of Rome.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In Lanius' Res Publica path, he becomes progressively more benevolent as a commander and ruler. That said, he still remains ruthless to those who stand in his way.
Summers Federation
- Demolitions Expert: Due to the Federation's copious use of explosives against raiders, many have figured out how to make them faster and deadlier.
The Executives
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. Due to the mod being an Alternate Universe from the mainline continuity, they are probably not responsible for destroying the entire world. That said, they are still the remnants Vault-Tec, and still have a knack for human experimentation and treating their employees horribly.
- Asshole Victim: Them being the remnants of Vault-Tec, whom created the Vaults as a testing ground for horrific human experimentation( and in the mainline continuity, were responsible for the destruction of the world in the first place), means no one will shed any tears for them being inevitably swallowed up by Lanius.
- Challenging the Chief: The CEO of the Executives is a military position, fought over during an annual Hostile Takeover. Also justified due to the position being co-opted by Vault-Tec's former security personnel, who finally displaced the technocrats and businessmen they had been answering to for so long.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Downplayed. The Executives are the descendants of Vault-Tec personnel from Texas which, while not having regressed to the same level as the Petro-Chico tribals in Mexico, have nonetheless long devolved into glorified raiders with a thin corporate veneer. That said, they still maintain some of the best research facilities in the wasteland, even if the "research" being conducted is excessively unethical.
- The Remnant: The Executives are all that's left of the Vault-Tec Corporation as far as they're concerned.
Chief Executive McKinley
- Bad Boss: Managers who fail to meet McKinley's expectations are 'laid off' through a 'team dismantling exercise' after which only one might survive and keep their job.
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
- Fling a Light into the Future: The Archdiocese preserves valuable Old World "Memorabilia" left by an engineer to a group of monks for posterity, who has since been canonized as Saint Leibowitz.
- The Theocracy: Santa Fe is a religious state led by what's left of the Roman Catholic Church in the region, with its own monastic and military orders.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The faction in general is pretty much A Canticle for Leibowitz transplanted into the Fallout universe.
Archbishop Robert Daegar
- Saintly Church: As the 157th Archbishop of Santa Fe, Daegar is both a reformer seeking to make the Church more attuned with the people and an ardent believer in preserving the "Memorabilia".
Blue Rose Society
- Emergency Authority: The Roswell detachment of the FBI survived the Great War by taking shelter inside the underground bunker complex there and have since expanded the agency's scope to encompass various administrative and governing duties, making them a government in their own right.
- Government Conspiracy: The Blue Rose Society was originally the formal, non-confidential name for a series of military bases related to the extant "PROJECT MOGUL," a hundred-year research project that sought to study the methods by which new sciences can be used in novel ways to defeat enemies of America. Since the Great War, however, it has continued that program in secret, while attempting to reassert some vestige of federal authority.
- The Remnant: The Blue Rose Society is what became of the scientists stationed at Roswell and the FBI branch assigned there when the Great War happened.
Director Cole
- The Men in Black: It's implied that Director Cole commands an secretive army of these to keep the Blue Rose Society's secrets out of sight.
