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I've done some digging and I found a reference to the year 2281 in a post of Ellen's from some time back. I'm going to work from this and lay out the AU like so:
The canon timeline at http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline says Owyn Lyons dies of natural causes in 2278. This is the start of my divergence from canon, followed swiftly by the fact that sometime between 2278 and 2281 Fawkes took Theresa of the Faint Smile (from Claymore canon) to Vault 87 and destroyed it, ending the production of supermutants and centaurs in the Capital Wasteland. Little Lamplight was also caved in; the children are now living in Springvale, with regular attention from Fawkes and a certain amount of guard duty being done by the giant ants controlled by Tanya, the former AntAgonizer, who is in a very happy long-term relationship with Silver the ex-prostitute from Megaton.
Owyn Lyons is still alive as of Ellen's current time frame, which is around 2282. I will probably have him get sick this year and have Star Paladin Cross take over due to ongoing illness on Sarah Lyons' part, Sarah having been irradiated as badly as Ellen at Project Purity but not having had access to the UFP medical tech Ellen got treated by at Milliways. Arthur Maxson is, according to the timeline, fifteen years old. I refuse to have him inherit the Brotherhood leadership at age sixteen as per canon. I don't care if he's the full genetic reincarnation of Roger Maxson himself. The terminal entries in Fallout 4 that have Brotherhood cults springing up around him and officers who ought to know better straight-up referring to him as 'the perfect specimen of humanity' make me ill. Since he's a squire in 2277, he can be a relatively young Knight. I will consider letting him make Senior Paladin or possibly Star Paladin sometime around age 25-27. This puts him in line with the youngest man to make captain in the US Navy, Stephen Decatur, who was raised in a naval family, entered the Navy at age nineteen, and became captain at 25 in the days when wooden ships were all you had to deal with. 27 is the age of the youngest American to captain a destroyer in World War 2, Leon Grabowsky, and seems reasonable to me as far as ages for advanced technological military commands. Either way, Star Paladin Cross will be running the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood reasonably well and is not going to lose control of the Brotherhood or the returned Outcasts any time soon, so there will be no extended string of ineffectual leaders involved, thank you.
I'm still mad that the canon timeline goes 'white guy, white guy's daughter, a bunch of bad leaders, messianic white guy' and never even mentions the possibility that white guy's daughter might be succeeded by the next highest ranking officer of the Brotherhood, who happens to be black.
Anyway. 2282. The very first recon team to the Commonwealth apparently went up there in 2280 in the canon timeline. I'll allow for their existence in Ellen's AU but they didn't get especially far in terms of maps, data, or the rest of it; they were, on the other hand, sufficiently unhappy with their overland journey that the decision was made to have the next group go up there by boat since hey, Philly was restoring a boat to service anyway.
Ellen's group is replacing Recon Squad Artemis. None of the events related to that squad or its plot in Fallout 4 happen in her timeline. Recon Squad Gladius may or may not exist, I haven't decided. I also have not decided on what the deal is with Paladin Danse.
Currently the Commonwealth stands about as follows:
( Spoilers ahoy )
The canon timeline at http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline says Owyn Lyons dies of natural causes in 2278. This is the start of my divergence from canon, followed swiftly by the fact that sometime between 2278 and 2281 Fawkes took Theresa of the Faint Smile (from Claymore canon) to Vault 87 and destroyed it, ending the production of supermutants and centaurs in the Capital Wasteland. Little Lamplight was also caved in; the children are now living in Springvale, with regular attention from Fawkes and a certain amount of guard duty being done by the giant ants controlled by Tanya, the former AntAgonizer, who is in a very happy long-term relationship with Silver the ex-prostitute from Megaton.
Owyn Lyons is still alive as of Ellen's current time frame, which is around 2282. I will probably have him get sick this year and have Star Paladin Cross take over due to ongoing illness on Sarah Lyons' part, Sarah having been irradiated as badly as Ellen at Project Purity but not having had access to the UFP medical tech Ellen got treated by at Milliways. Arthur Maxson is, according to the timeline, fifteen years old. I refuse to have him inherit the Brotherhood leadership at age sixteen as per canon. I don't care if he's the full genetic reincarnation of Roger Maxson himself. The terminal entries in Fallout 4 that have Brotherhood cults springing up around him and officers who ought to know better straight-up referring to him as 'the perfect specimen of humanity' make me ill. Since he's a squire in 2277, he can be a relatively young Knight. I will consider letting him make Senior Paladin or possibly Star Paladin sometime around age 25-27. This puts him in line with the youngest man to make captain in the US Navy, Stephen Decatur, who was raised in a naval family, entered the Navy at age nineteen, and became captain at 25 in the days when wooden ships were all you had to deal with. 27 is the age of the youngest American to captain a destroyer in World War 2, Leon Grabowsky, and seems reasonable to me as far as ages for advanced technological military commands. Either way, Star Paladin Cross will be running the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood reasonably well and is not going to lose control of the Brotherhood or the returned Outcasts any time soon, so there will be no extended string of ineffectual leaders involved, thank you.
I'm still mad that the canon timeline goes 'white guy, white guy's daughter, a bunch of bad leaders, messianic white guy' and never even mentions the possibility that white guy's daughter might be succeeded by the next highest ranking officer of the Brotherhood, who happens to be black.
Anyway. 2282. The very first recon team to the Commonwealth apparently went up there in 2280 in the canon timeline. I'll allow for their existence in Ellen's AU but they didn't get especially far in terms of maps, data, or the rest of it; they were, on the other hand, sufficiently unhappy with their overland journey that the decision was made to have the next group go up there by boat since hey, Philly was restoring a boat to service anyway.
Ellen's group is replacing Recon Squad Artemis. None of the events related to that squad or its plot in Fallout 4 happen in her timeline. Recon Squad Gladius may or may not exist, I haven't decided. I also have not decided on what the deal is with Paladin Danse.
Currently the Commonwealth stands about as follows:
( Spoilers ahoy )