As the united settlements expanded raider bands began to fall as US troopers overwhelmed them through firepower and clever tactics such as false settlements that would be attacked and once attacked minutemen would reveal themselves from underground bunkers and spider holes and ambush the attacking warband wiping them out.
by december 2288 the federal rations stockpile hab been captured and restored. the settlement of covenant wss discovered to have been kidnapping innocent people and performing experiments on them to determine if they were synths and after the townsfolk were done with them they were killed and dumped near west everett estates to be eaten by super mutants. the town was captured by a minutemen aussalt force led by colonel joseph cranston. the generals wife nora had established an independant judiciary ruled by independent judges free of military influence with the commonwealth minutemen acting as police and the military of the northern commonwealth.
lexington had been rebuilt with parts of cambridge becoming resettled. with the corvega assembly plant being reactivated biving the minutemen the ability to create scrap vehicles such as 15 humvees 3 MRAP's (the so called APC's you find abandoned) and 7 transport trucks. the parts of the plant that could no longer be used to make cars or were unnecessary were used to create civilian goods for the local population.
the commonwealth by christmas looked like this.
Sanctuary City
pop: 185 50 minutemen
The city was merged with concord and abernathy but still ruled by a seperate city council.
Abernathy City
pop:166 30 minutemen
The city was also merged to sanctuary and concord and was still independant like sanctuary.
Concord City
pop: 220 50 minutemen
This is the second biggest city in the boston area and is the second biggest economy.
Diamond City
pop: 86 (at its height) 90 minutemen (currently)
Diamond city was forced by economic pressure from the US to join and is on the decline as nearly every 3 weaks a settler leaves for greener pastures. soon it will become a ghost town. the mayor was recently outed as a synth as he had malfunctioned and attacked his secretary killing her and a guard causing the remaining population to rapidly resettle to other cities with many not making the journey due to bandits and wasteland creatures. it is now the United Settlements version of the prewar Pentagon known as the Diamond and is responsible for coordinating military operations. it is constantly under attack by super mutants, gunners, and raiders and is heavily defended being the biggest military base in the commonwealth aside from hanscom AFB.
Tenpines
pop: 36 30 minutemen
This small town was one of the first settlements to join the US and used to have a scrap yard nearby but that was quickly exhausted and the settlements growth has stalled and it is now considered a trading post with most of the population being employees of the tenpines caravan company (TCC) led by john lemay. the town is small but still making money due to the TCC which has a few outposts across the northern states but not many. this company is the main source of revenue for the Minutemen with john lemay founding the Department Of Commerce for the United Settlements or the DOCUS or DOC.
Greygarden Industries (GI)
pop: 57 employees. 35 minutemen 25 defender robots and 80 farmbots
was originally a pre war farm for general atomics to showcase their solution for the food crisis of the pre war days. the robots of the town were reprogrammed with a nearby water treatment plant being restored by a minutemen joint aussault and army corps of engineers task force to provide the farm with clean water to better help the plants grow. the farm is also a hub for robot making as a robot named ADA was salvaged from a destroyed trading convoy by a local mechanic. with the data ADA provided a minutemen task force was put together to find the individual behind the attacks by robots on caravans and settlements who was a women named Isabel cruz. she was convinced by the team commander that her robots were not helping people like she thought and were actually killing people. she would be put on trial and found guilty of gross negligence but would not be sentanced to jail and instead be made tge head of the United Settlements Department of Robotics or USDR in exchange for amnesty. she would oversee the making of United Settlements robots at the newly christened United Settlements robot Assembly Plant in downtown Boston. Greygarden industries is not a settlement but a farm producing food by breeding animals and growing crops it supplies half of the United Settlements crops.
Sunshine City
pop:79 35 minutemen
This settlement used to be a hippie commune but is now a farming town that supplies the other half of the commonwealths crops. the towns
Hanscom AFB
pop: 45 minutemen
This base is the place where the enclave had once set up a small Garrison with the treaty of jenson bunker* integrating the enclave remnants into the minutemen armed forces with the scientists establishing the Commonwealth Research and Development (CRnDI) institute and being responsible for finding a way into the institute. the soldiers were turned into the 1ST commonwealth air assault division under the command of colonel jack dornan an ancestor of a famous enclave commander. the 1ST division is considered the most elite and best equiped division in the commonwealth and is responsible for the capure of gunners plaza. the division is highly decorated and got the nickname of the air marshels. this base houses 10 vertibirds 3 being gunships with the rest being transports it also houses 3 tanks and 10 MRAPS with 15 transports the virtibirds are all under the command of the 1ST air assault division.
Greentown
pop: 44 20 minutemen
Greentown is a small settlement that is built around a greenhouse from which they get their crops that they trade to nearby settlements and travelers.
Slag Town
pop:70 45 minutemen
This town used to be known as the slog and was a ghoul run tarberry bog but is now a industrial boomtown due to the newly liberated saugus ironworks being the hub for weapons manufacturing owned by the government owned Commonwealth Arms Corperatian. it gets its name from the factory that made it a boomtown and turned it into an economic super power despite its small population. most guns in the commonwealth come from here or the manufacturing station in Jenson bunker.
Oberland Outpost
pop: 40 minutemen
This outpost is the cornerstone of minutemen logistics in the commonwealth being the hub of railway and truck travel that supplies numerous minutemen minutemen outposts in cambridge and downtown boston as well as the diamond with the railways of the US being expanded and repaired from the pre war times. it is the third most defended Military Base because of its logistical value.
Hangman Outpost
pop: 15 minutemen
this is an outpost dedicated solely to defending the riptide bridge from raiders, gunners, and super mutants after the bridge had been destroyed by a local raider gang paid by the gunners to disrupt minutemen supply lines and force minutemen logistics caravans into an ambush at another bridge nearby.
Starlight City
pop 109 30 minutemen
This town is the entertainment capital of new Hampshire provideing the entire state with pre and post war movies and televisons thanks to the Starlight Film Company. it also houses a small logistics company to help deliver supplies to oberland and the Diamond.
Lexington City
pop: 414 60 minutemen
This city is the beggining of the boston reclamation project* and is the biggest manufacterer of civilian goods in the northeast of america it is also the only known manufacturer of cars in the northeast it is an economic power house making the United Settlements incredibly wealthy it is also the biggest trading hub in the North east it has expanded into cambridge and revived the CIT into a trade school churning out mechanics, scientists, and engineers being run by the Department Of Education (DOE) which is run by a man named james crowder.
minutemen divisions:
1ST Infantry (the new red 1) 120 Troops
1ST Guards (enforcers) 190 personel
1ST Air Assault (air marshals) 45 power armor (PA) troops
1ST Mechanized 60 PA troops 10 transports 5 MRAPS 5 Tanks
1ST (law bringers) Military Police (MP) 60 MP's.
1ST recon 40 recon personel divided into 8 squads
1ST logistics (math geniuses) 50 logistics officers protected by the MP's and Guard units. considered the most overworked division out there with the least respect from other divisions. pay is amazing though.
1ST rapid response 50 PA troops 10 transport 5 MRAPS responds to situations that settlements not in the United Settlements have
1ST Spec Ops (Infiltrators) 20 operators unknown division not known by the public dedicated to infiltrateing enemy compunds and sabotaging, spying, and assassinating enemy HVT's
High Command 20 security personel 1 general and 3 colonels
Reserves 150 troops
Border patrol 80 officers 20 patrol cars
lexington police department (LPD) 60 officers 10 being SWAT 1 disarmed MRAP 10 patrol cars. First police Unit signaling the end the guards divisions and
2ND infantry (greenies) 120 troops
2ND guards (over watchers) 190
total military personel 1116.
the reason that number is so high is because of the service for citizenship act of 2287 giving immigrants the ability to serve in the armed forces in return for citizenship. this massiveley increased the manpower of the commonwealth armed forces.
1 the jenson bunker treaty absorbed the enclave boston remnants into the United Settlement on the 5th of october 2287 integrating the manufactureing and military knowhow of the enclave remnants as well as their equipment and science teams. this act lead to the discovery of the institute and the formulation of plan to take it over.
2 the boston reclamation project is the project which has the stated goal of rebuilding the city of boston and turning it into a shining beacon of freedom in the wastelands. it is controlled by the boston reclamation authority which has the authorization to hire mercenaries to clear out enemy strongholds. it also controls the 1ST infantry division and can call on the 1ST mechanized and air assault if needed to capture and hold key strategic locations. it has the highest casualty rates among all departments and divisions clocking in at a whopping 35% casualty rate. (note that 20% of the casualties are wounded leaving only 15 percent deaths.)
there it is everyone thank you for reading this was a blast to write i though it would be fun to turn the enclave into a division. i also increased high command with two colonels being former enclave. the way the colonols work is they control a few divisons instead of just one acting more as generals than colonels dont worry their rank will increase as the story progresses.