Springfield

Springfield is a town in Illinois, near the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel Bunker Beta. It is mostly human, but it also has some ghoul population. Around 2197, the mayor of Springfield was Chris Avellone. The other notable civilians were Carino, a town guard, Joe the bartender, and Presnell the shopkeeper.

After the previous mayor disappeared under suspicious circumstances, Avellone was voted in as a puppet mayor. But he took to his new power and started causing trouble. The mayor's political stance with the ghouls angered some of Springfield's far-right, human activists who refuse to acknowledge the "sub-humans" as near equals, so the plot against ghouls and the mayor was started.

Normally, the Brotherhood doesn't meddle in politics, but this offered them a chance to increase their hold on this resource rich province and the Elders decided to send a Brotherhood squad to Springfield to protect Avellone from a plot uncovered by the Brotherhood's Dagger Squad, who captured one of the ringleaders to this plot. He told the Brotherhood interrogators that these resident troublemakers would be dressed as raiders, which was a clumsy attempt to frame the local bandits. Soon, the warrior arrived and liberated the town from its occupants. These raiders - ghoul haters - turned to be quite an organized group consisted of regular members and so called enforcers - much more experienced warriors. Even though they awaited the Brotherhood's arrival and had already build some barricades, they were all killed, including their leader, called head assassin.

After the BOS squad rescued the mayor, the resources of Springfield helped fuel the Brotherhood war machine. He signed the "Bill of Monster Rights". Under this bill, there would be no violence against a ghoul...unless the ghoul started it. And from now on, a ghoul was entitled to payment equal to, or greater than, half that of a pure bred human. And lastly, no more would "taking a dump" be referred to as "pinching the ghoul," "making ghoul babies" or "dropping off the ghoul at the pool".

Appearances in games
Springfield appears only in Fallout Tactics, if you have the 4th bonus CD, or installed a patch designed for this reason, or you can do it manualy by using notepad, and editing the "bos.cfg" file in the "core" directory. There is this line: {misc.bonusMission} = {false} Change the false to true, before the Mardin mission appears, i.e. you can finish the Quincy mission, but you have to change it before you go to the beta bunker (or simply start a new game after the change).