

Like most other Vault-Tec projects, the end result left much to be desired. From there, the Old World's finest minds would coordinate with the other Vaults to restore America to it's Pre-War glory. It was constructed to oversee Vault 0, a facility constructed deep underneath Offut AFB in Omaha, which also hosted the Headquarters of the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command. The Calculator was and is a Cyborg, a AI networked with eight human brains. The Elders felt that a corner had finally been turned, but in fact they were about to face their greatest test, the Calculator War.a test the young Order barely survived. By 2198, a series of strategic alliances with friendly Tribes, as well as a program of introducing select technologies to their new Allies, the situation had largely stabilized and the Order began to recover it's strength. In 2190, after years of unsuccessful attempts to contact Lost Hills for aid, reinforcements, or evacuation, the survivors proclaimed themselves a independent Chapter, the Midwestern Order, and elected a Elder Council, comprised of Star-Paladins Barnaky, Decker, and Maximus, to govern the new Order. The next few years were a constant struggle for survival, as the crash survivors, now based at Bunker Alpha, beneath the old Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, found themselves besieged on all sides by Raiders, hostile Tribes, and the Super-Mutants of Gammorin's Army. Traveling East in giant airships, severe storms over the Midwest scattered the Expedition, with the largest group of survivors being forced down just outside the ruins of Chicago in 2185. It was lost on no one at the time, however, that the Expedition also effectively resolved a heated debate on whether the Brotherhood should recruit from, and share technology with, the Wastelanders around them, by sending the minority who favored those positions East. The Midwestern Order was founded in 2190 by the survivors of a ill-fated Expedition sent East by the Council of Elders in Lost Hills, ostensibly to evaluate the extent of the threat presented by the remnants of the Master's Super-Mutant Army.
