Raiders (Wastelanders)

The raiders are a faction in the Fallout 76 add-on Wastelanders.

Background
This group is a resurrection of the raiders presence in Appalachia, after previous raider groups were wiped out by the Scorched. After these raiders, composed of survivors and new arrivals, caught wind that people were returning to the land they once claimed for themselves, the Raiders and their leader Meg decided to come back and put a stop to anyone who would take their territory.

They set up a formidable base of operations at the crashed space station, now called the Crater. It is an inevitability that outsiders who drop by unannounced will not receive a warm welcome.

Interactions with the player character
Meg and the raiders initially encounter the player character in the quest Strange Bedfellows when Rose wishes to contact them as part of a request by the Vault 76 overseer to protect them from the threat of the Scorched Plague. Upon meeting the Vault 76 residents, Meg is not too keen on having her Raiders inoculated and only will agree to it if the residents aid her lieutenant Aldridge with an attack on the Scorched west of the Philippi Battlefield Cemetery. This is only if she can't be convinced that she is making the same mistakes that David Thorpe and the old raiders did with not cooperating with the other factions in the Responders, Free States, and Brotherhood of Steel to combat the Scorched and scorchbeasts. Aldridge is found wounded inside a semi-trailer, his team wiped out, and a scorchbeast corpse lying on top of the trailer.

After deciding whether to kill him or spare him to go out on his own terms, the residents return to tell Meg what happened, and she agrees to have the raiders inoculated to protect them from the Scorched Plague. With the raiders now safe from becoming more of the scorchbeast queen's minions, the residents soon have to decide which faction they are going to join to get to the riches hidden within Vault 79 as they can either join Meg and the raiders or go against them by allying with Paige and the settlers. This will affect the residents' relationship with the two factions depending on their actions from then on.

Appearances
Raiders appear in the Fallout 76 add-on Wastelanders.