In July of 2287 a group of minutemen stormed Boston airport and took control. Their original plan was to create a safe haven for commonwealth refuges, but due to a lack of resources they turned to extorting the refuges. After that they were declared rouge and the minutemen moved to wipe them out. The battle of Boston airport was long and bloody, but the rogues pushed the minutemen back and offered them a chance to join. Few accepted. After that their leader Colonel Mason wanted to keep being minutemen and sought to expand to other settlements. However due to their reputation they were refused. Mason saw no other options and declared himself Overlord and his men the Spartans. He laid down a new code for them to live by, a code of extortion The settlements would pay them protection money and give them resources, and exchange the Spartans would protect them. If a settlement refused then the Spartans would cause problems for them. After four months the fallen minutemen had been classified as a crime syndicate and effectively had control over the commonwealth. Their members only had to follow the ten rules known as the dead code.
Leave no man behind.
Swear undying loyalty to the overlord and all those above in the chain of command.
Make everybody pay and make as much caps as possible.
Never betray another Spartan.
Show no mercy to traitors.
Punish any citizens that refuse to obey a Spartan.
Work to the best of your abilities.
Attempt to recruit an opponent who is defeated.
Enslave anyone who yields to a Spartan in combat.
Never surrender.
A Spartan is allowed to commit any actions that do not defy the dead code. However breaking the dead code is punishable by enslavement, but if a member breaks more than three of the rules then they are to be killed by their fellow Spartans.
In October of 2287 the sole survivor, Nora, left vault 111 and made contact with a group of minutemen who were being hunted by the Spartans. She led the survivors back to sanctuary and rebuilt the town. She then joined the minutemen and became their leader. She and Preston started to rebuild the minutemen and began to take down the Spartans. The minutemen then led an attack on the institute and destroyed it. With the institute out of the picture, Nora convinced the railroad, and brotherhood to form an three-way alliance with the minutemen to destroy the weekend Spartans. By new years the Spartans were on the run and a new brighter age had dawned on the commonwealth, but unknown to them all a great darkness had begun to brew, one that the would revive the Spartans.
