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Member: Lancer Austin Robere
Service Number: 20066843
Date of Birth: 11-02-2258
Date of Death: 11-13-2287
Place of Death: Unknown
Chapter: East Coast
Duty Stations: Adams AFB, Fort Independence, Citadel
Areas of Research: Vertibird Line Mechanics, Vertibird Avionics
Archive Submission: Journal Entry
08-27-2282
I haven't written in this thing in forever, especially since things started heating up as of late, but I feel like I have to now. Part of me feels like we're actually like "Making history" now? Anyways, a bunch of our guys got back from that big battle against Sheppard's mutant army. Not that the fact concerned the base personnel or other scribes for that matter.
While they were out, Head Paladin Tristan had all us Scribes or Lancers working on our assignments and I had the misfortune of working on that SATCOMM receiver in the control tower. I can't say I know for certain why Rothchild put me on that assignment, especially since I haven't studied communications equipment my whole two year career in the Brotherhood. Thankfully, Scribe Childers was put on the job and we linked with those guys on the West Coast again. I almost forgot that the Brotherhood was all the way out in California as well, but we got what we needed… Every time we have to get in touch with "Lost Hills" is a nightmare. I again wonder why Rothchild put me on that job. I don't know how to jump radio signals between old out of orbit satellites!? Like I said, we got in touch; and they forwarded us the old transport model vertibird schematics from some place out there called "Navarro"
Thank God we got those blueprints. That'll definitely make our job way easier. I mean, we managed to scratch build and repair a few of the old Enclave transports, but we were mostly just working in the dark and hoping for the best. Not only was there not enough safety wire to keep the engines from rattling out of place, but we've been having to jury rig most of the trash around here into parts that hopefully won't kill our Lancer Pilots the second they lift off the ground!
Some of my friends back in Megaton asked me what it was like to fly in one of those vertibirds only to be shocked when I told them I never have. They were all like;
"What? You work on them all day and never get to fly in them?"
Then I say, "I can if I want to, we do weekend missions to different parts of the wastes as flight exercises, and they always need mechanics in case something goes wrong. The only reason I don't go is because I know all it takes to make one of those things fall out of the sky."
Seriously, one bolt left un-safety-wired and the tail could fall off. One screw not torqued properly, and people die. One tungsten pendulum dampener not connected properly during a prop check and everyone in 10 miles better hit the deck. Vertibirds are deathtraps that I'll gladly let others take into the sky.
I get sidetracked easily. So, maintenance should be easier and safer now that we know how vertibirds are supposed to be put together. I really wish it hadn't taken so long to get the blueprints and I have no idea how the Brotherhood managed since Adams was taken back in 77. Either way, I've come to realize it probably wasn't the best idea for them to completely obliterate the Enclave's mobile crawler. From what I heard, that Lone Wanderer character killed just about everything inside it and the Brotherhood cleared the exterior. Calling down that orbital missile strike seems in hindsight like a tremendous waste of Enclave tech. Hell, the data stores inside the crawler probably had a copy of those vertibird schematics since there was a whole fleet of them here at Adams… I suppose things really were strange under that "Elder Lyons" guy.
Speaking of Elders, Scribe Klifton's crew at Citadel got in contact with those Lost Hills guys as well and relayed what happened at that battle under Paladin Maxson. Despite us losing a bunch of guys against Sheppard, we won the day, and Maxson made a pit stop at the HQ for those Outcast guys and led them back here. Apparently the Outcasts joined our ranks and the west coast made the 15 year old Paladin the new Elder. I only met the kid a few times, here and at the Citadel, but he seemed pretty respected by most of the long time members… I honestly didn't know the Brotherhood had "Elders" for the longest time. I just thought "Elder" was a nickname given to the Brotherhood's old leader whom everyone still talks shit about. Either way, "Arthur Maxson" is our new supreme leader and most of the bigshots around here seem glad.
I'm glad too… It's just that the kid makes a lot of us feel like crap in comparison. He saved a squad of Knights at 12, killed a deathclaw by himself at 13, and has been kicking ass until becoming our commander just recently. I almost think he's too inspirational.
I totally would've gone the Knight pathway. Nobody wants to join the Brotherhood to be a Scribe, or a Lancer. When the recruiters come by, everyone sees the armor and thinks "Knight Infantry all the way." I wanted to be a badass spraying lasers all over the capital wastes with my brothers in arms; that's why I was devastated after the initial tests said that they needed smarter people who were more mechanically minded for their vertibird project. So, I joined up anyway, and went through Initiate training… All I thought during Initiate training and live fire combat exercises was: Thank God I went Lancer! Haha! No more of that crap once I got the orange suit and a bunk at Adams.
"You want me to spend my days carrying a 70lb sack of gear and laser rifle up that mountain to look for shiny gadgets or get eaten by a behemoth? Fuck that!"
I'll take the lifestyle where I spend 10hrs a day working on vertibirds with the rest of my time free at the drop of a hat. Nope. Life is good. We Scribes and Lancers can hold our own if it came down to it, but so long as there's big dumb brutes and metal suits, I think I'll pass.
Legacy: Lancer Austin Robere was considered MIA or likely Killed in Action on 11-13-2287 when Scabbard lost contact with the Vertibird he was on during a flight to reinforce the Commonwealth Expedition Force. Believed to have gone down in a region known as "The Glowing Sea". The zone is considered too dangerous for recovery mission as of 04-13-2288.
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