The Prydwen

The Prydwen is a modified and heavily armored Brotherhood of Steel airship that flies throughout the skies of the Commonwealth. The vessel serves multiple roles for the Brotherhood, including those of aircraft carrier, command center, personnel quarters, equipment maintenance bay, and research facility. It is, for all intents and purposes, a flying military base.

Background
The Prydwen was constructed at Adams Air Force Base over a period of eight years. It took an initial four years to collect the materials necessary and another four to actually construct the airship. It weighs in at forty thousand tons, as noted by Lancer Captain Kells. The nuclear core was evidently taken from Rivet City as the previous one was not sufficient enough to efficiently power all the systems.

The airship is filled with hydrogen, as stated during the quest Airship Down. Four pylons attached to the ship's flight deck carry a single jet engine each, being responsible for controlling the Prydwen's altitude and help to keep the ship aloft. There are four docking hooks for Brotherhood modified VB-02 Vertibird gunships attached to the airship's hull, vertibirds being accessible via the flight deck.

Layout
3 Floors:
 * 1) Lower Catwalk (to Vertibirds).
 * 2) Command Center
 * 3) Main Deck

On the Main Deck you can find a Medical Bay, Bar, Power Armor station and crafting equipment, a shop (at the end of the corridor). There are also stairs that lead up to the living quarters.

Inhabitants
The Prydwen's crew includes:
 * Elder Maxson
 * Captain Kells
 * Paladin Brandis, if convinced to rejoin the Brotherhood.
 * Proctor Ingram
 * Proctor Teagan
 * Proctor Quinlan
 * Madison Li (optional)
 * Senior Scribe Neriah
 * Knight-Captain Cade
 * Predictive Analytic Machine (if reprogrammed in the mission Tactical Thinking)

Notable loot

 * T-60 power armor
 * Fusion core
 * Long range laser rifle
 * Gauss rifle in Proctor Teagan's cage.
 * Fat Man + few mini nukes
 * X-01 power armor helmet in Proctor Teagan's cage.
 * Knight-Captain Cade's report
 * Maxson was right
 * C.I.T. recon report
 * Personal log - 142
 * Quinlan to be deleted
 * Nuka Cola Quantum, Prydwen main deck, lower catwalk
 * Final Judgment

Pickpocket or dropped on death

 * Engineers armor
 * Welding helmet
 * Airship captain's hat pickpocket from Knight-Captain Kells
 * Medical goggles
 * Science scribe's armor
 * Bomber jacket

Related quests

 * Shadow of Steel - Travel with Paladin Danse to meet with Elder Maxson.
 * Airship Down - Assault the Brotherhood along with the Institute's Synths.
 * Rockets' Red Glare - The Sole Survivor, Deacon and Tinker Tom lead a secret raid to destroy the Prydwen.
 * With Our Powers Combined - The Brotherhood have caused enough trouble, lead the Minutemen to destroy the Prydwen.

Appearances
The Prydwen appears only in Fallout 4. It will show up right after the main quest Reunions is finished, flying in over the western mountain range of the map and making its way across the Commonwealth, until it finally anchors above the Boston Airport. After this, the Sole Survivor can visit it during the Brotherhood of Steel quest Shadow of Steel offered by Paladin Danse.

Behind the scenes

 * Prydwen (Middle Welsh lit. "fair-faced", "handsome") is the name of King Arthur's ship in the native Welsh literature concerning the legendary character. Arthur and his men board it to sail to the Otherworldly fortress of Annwn in the somewhat cryptic poem Preiddeu Annwfn as well as when they sail to and from Ireland in the prose text Culhwch ac Olwen in an attempt to gain a magical cauldron. It is not explicitly named in any other native Arthurian tale or poem, and in the Anglo-Norman literature that drew from it Arthur does not appear to have a comparable vessel.
 * It is pronounced by multiple characters different ways. Military Frequency AF95 broadcasts pronounce it 'preed-win' whereas Paladin Danse pronounces it 'prid-win'; the Welsh pronunciation is 'PRUHD-wehn'.

Gallery
El Prydwen 프라이드웬 Придвен