Slavers (Fallout 3)

The slavers are a faction operating in the Capital Wasteland, centralized in Paradise Falls in 2277.

Background
Although the region's earliest history of slavery since the Great War is unknown, it was well established if even more chaotic by the 2250s. The slavers' past leaders included Penelope Chase, and Harmon Jurley. Miss Chase, aka the Black Widow, was their leader until around 2250 with her death preceding the destruction of the Kingdom of Rockopolis, with Harmon Jurley taking the position after her death. He would hold this title for decades, until he was killed by Eulogy Jones. Their reputation became so fierce that the denizens of Arefu destroyed the north ramp of the bridge on which their settlement was built to better protect themselves from the slaver threat. The Slavers have a extremely limited clientele, and sell mostly to their return customers, the Raiders. Other customers are residents of the wasteland, including Allistair Tenpenny, creator of Tenpenny Tower.

Ridgefield
The earliest known slaver activity was their extermination of the town of Ridgefield. They captured nearly the entire tribe of the military survivors who settled there. Its last survivor Arkansas was then a small boy, but he managed to escape undetected. Returning and vowing revenge, the boy implemented a plan to make the locale a deathtrap for the Slavers. He filled the town with land mines, then spread rumors of a new band of inhabitants and waited. When the Slavers came to raid the town, they were harried by a hidden sniper and decimated by landmines. The Slavers took heavy casualties that day and never came back. The town became known as a ghost town avoided by all thanks to its reputation for being haunted, cursed, and full of explosives. Traders eventually gave it a new name, "Minefield," and its sole inhabitant Arkansas, now an old man, still shuffles around guarding the place.

Rockopolis
The slave trading partnership between the Paradise Falls slavers and the slavers of the Pitt was already in place by the 2250s.

Herbert Dashwood, born in 2207, claims that back in his day, the slavers were a fairly disorganized group. According to Dashwood's recollection, he and his traveling partner Argyle had escaped from Paradise Falls. Shortly before their departure, they were approached by Penelope Chase, the slavers' leader at the time, also known as the "Black Widow," who was posing as a fellow slave escapee, and were tricked into taking her along with them into the secretive underground settlement of Rockopolis. Her plan worked, but it had also resulted in her death at the hands of Argyle. Nevertheless, a slaver team led by a man named Rollings stormed Rockopolis and began to capture and enslave its citizens, and sent them off on the long journey to the Pitt for handover.

Around the year 2250, Harmon Jurley became the new leader of the slavers. However, at an unknown date, Eulogy Jones murdered the previous leader and took his position, and still acts as the leader of the slavers.

Current operations and emancipation
By 2277, Paradise Falls is led by Eulogy Jones, who regulates the purchase and selling of slaves, after he personally killed the former leader. The slavers get paid on commission, based on the number of wastelanders they bring in, and according to Herbert "Daring" Dashwood, the slavers have become more organized in the last twenty years and "[buy] and [sell] anything with a pulse." Fortunately for the denizens of the Capital Wasteland, slave collars are a rarity, which makes the slavers' job much more difficult.

Paradise Falls is guarded by and serves as a home to a cadre of battle-hardened slavers with no aversion to the profitable business of slavery. The inhabitants of Paradise Falls are infamous for their incursions into Big Town, and on rare occasions, into Little Lamplight. The slavers are also known to seize random wastelanders, and the town is frequently mentioned on the Herbert Dashwood program on Galaxy News Radio.

As of 2277, a team of slavers led by Leroy Walker had occupied the Lincoln Memorial in order to prevent escaped slaves from owning it for the purpose of boosting morale or inciting a revolt. For this reason, they began planning raids on the Museum of History to burn historical artifacts relating to Abraham Lincoln. In addition, a man named Ramsey led a small outpost at a train tunnel near Fort Constantine, its purpose being to scout the wilderness and capture and enslave travelers. Throughout the Capital Wasteland, small teams of slavers will roam the wilderness in search of slaves or running slaves back to Paradise Falls.

Other operations by the slavers in 2277 include the enslavement of Little Lamplighters, attempts to track down the mysterious android A3-21, and harassment of the citizens of Big Town for tribute. Eulogy Jones had also attempted to use former member Seagrave Holmes as an envoy for his efforts in Rivet City.

Enemy organizations of the slavers are the Temple of the Union, made up of escaped slaves, the Regulators, and the Railroad. Past members include Flak and Doc Church.

Quests

 * Rescue from Paradise - The slavers are currently holding Sammy, Penny and Squirrel as slaves. The three need to be bought or taken from the slavers in order to complete this quest.
 * Strictly Business - Grouse hires the Lone Wanderer to enslave four VIPs in order to gain entry into Paradise Falls.
 * Strictly Profitable - Grouse hires the Lone Wanderer to enslave non-player characters other than the four previously mentioned VIPs.
 * Head of State - Leroy Walker employs the Lone Wanderer to bring him artifacts of Abraham Lincoln so that he can destroy them. If one sides with the Temple of the Union, Leroy and his slavers will need to be killed.
 * Into The Pitt - The Lone Wanderer attempts to travel to The Pitt, to do this, they must obtain slave clothes from a slaver camp at the train tunnel.
 * Economics of Violence - Pronto hires the Lone Wanderer to bring him 20 Chinese assault rifles.
 * The Kid-Kidnapper - Eulogy Jones instructs the Lone Wanderer to enslave Bumble.

Appearances
The Paradise Falls slavers appear only in Fallout 3, and are mentioned in the Fallout 4 Creation Club content "Capital Wasteland Mercenaries."