Airship

Airships are vehicles seen in the Midwest and in the Commonwealth.

Background
Sometime after the fall of the Master, the Brotherhood of Steel constructed an entire fleet airships (zeppelins) and dispatched them to the east to locate and assess to the extent of the remaining super mutant threat. However, most were scuttled for parts or destroyed in fighting the mutants, with one of which being located in the Midwest.

However, the main airship suffered severe damage during a great storm, with smaller sections torn loose from the main craft, never to be seen again. The damage caused by the storm also claimed many of the Air Convoy leaders, including Paladin Latham.

The command zeppelin remained aloft, thanks to the efforts of the surviving crew, who managed to keep the wounded vessel airborne until it reached the outskirts of Chicago. There the ship crashed and those who had lasted through both storm and the crash-landing eventually formed the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel, a new organization, which diverged greatly from the ideals of the old Brotherhood.

In addition, the Brotherhood of Steel makes use of airship technology in the Commonwealth. Knight-Captain Kells mentions other airships were built previously but were destroyed. The Prydwen was constructed by the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel over a 6 year period. It took two years to collect the materials necessary and another four to actually construct the airship. It weighs in at forty thousand tons. The fuel source was taken from a wrecked aircraft carrier's nuclear reactor. The airship is also filled with hydrogen.

Locations

 * One of the wrecked zeppelins can be found near the area later known as Osceolla. It was there that Paladin Latham, having somehow survived his ejection from the airship, established his main base after taking the name of Gammorin and becoming leader of the super mutants to be found there.
 * The Prydwen, an airship seen operated by the Brotherhood of Steel in the Commonwealth.

Appearances
Airships appear only in Fallout Tactics and Fallout 4.