Reaver Movement

"For the glory of Tech!"

The Reaver Movement is a religious cult of humans dedicated to the worship of technology operating in the Midwest.

Background
The Reaver Movement was founded many decades before 2197 in the Midwest. They were raiders at first who find a military cache in the Midwest, starting after to create a religion dedicated to the worship of technology and everything around technology. Sometime after, they establishing a headquarters in the former city of Newton in Kansas, where reaver scientists began to examine and produce technology and weapons. They are very different of the Brotherhood of Steel, since they feel technology has an important religious significance and have religious beliefs in various technology-related field. They are also more aggressive and have kept their principle of raiders, acting like them when they come to getting new technology.

A proof of how great their dedication is demonstrated by the fact that just after learned about the destruction of a humanoid robot in Junction City around 2198, they are immediately come to the town to retrieve the parts and established a compound outside, preparing for the battle without worrying about what anyone could head them off. Here, the Warrior and his squad meetings them for the first time, who were launching probing attacks against Junction City for the parts, but they were killed and the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel and recover all of the humanoid robot parts.

Sometime later, a reaver delegate came to the Bunker Delta of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel, bringing news that a large Calculator's robot force has all but annihilated the main camp of the Reaver Movement in Newton. The delegate called on the motion of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel for assistance in the defense of the city, and above save the four reaver elders: (Albert Lamore, Rodger Gaire, Glenda Close and Tobias Peste), who barricaded themselves in various locations throughout the city.

Normally, the Midwestern Brotherhood would gladly allow one enemy to destroy another, but the reavers had something to offer in exchange - a pulse rifle prototype developed by the Reaver Movement thanks to robot pieces that they've been able to scavenge, that has a devastating effect on electronics, which makes it an effective weapon against the Calculator's robots. They agreed to give the Midwestern Brotherhood both a prototype of this weapon and instruction on its workings if Newton and the four reaver elders were saved.

After the Warrior's squad liberated Newton, several reavers decided to join the ranks of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel in order to fight the "Menace from the West's", the army of the Calculator. Although the action of the liberation of Newton has established official contacts with the Reaver Movement, the Midwestern Brotherhood elders were a little skeptical. Other reaver survivors of Newton were temporarily placed in internment camps to await a further turn of events - set them free or restrict them to labor camps.

Society
They are lead by the four reaver elders and have a structure similar to a traditional government with politics, chief of army, medical division, science division etc. but religious classes are also important in the Reaver Movement, like priests. Also, the priest is the only reaver classes can be performed in addition to other classes, like scientist-priest. They are extremely numerous, a group of about forty reavers can be seen in Junction City just to get only one technology and patrol the Midwest sometimes just one reaver but generally in groups of 2 up to 8, supported at times by super mutants of the Gammorin's Army.

The ambassadors who cares about reavers people and their religion, acting like ministers. The leader of ambassadors and one of the four reaver elder is the "1st Ambassador", Albert Lamore in 2197, his function is comparable to a president for the Reaver Movement. The leader of the reavers army is the "General and joint chief of staff", also one of the four reaver elder, Rodger Gaire in 2197, giving the orders for all major military projects and assisted by captains on the field. Their medical leader and another reaver elder is the "Chief of medical division" (also called First Doctor), Glenda Close in 2197, in charge of medical research as well as practical applications of medicine in the field. The leader of the scientific research and the last reaver elder is the "Chief of science division" (also called Chief of military science projects), Tobias Peste in 2197.

Also, they have priest, allowed to perform the sacred rites of the Reaver Movement and acting as a mediatory between reavers and reavers gods. They also have holy visions about prophecy or technology, fanciful or not, that sometime take shape after in Temple-Laboratories, the reaver workshops. They generally perform a period of fasting, permitting them to have a better contact with reavers god.

Religion
The technology is everything for the Reaver Movement, feeling them as sacred things, searching the spiritual enlightenment of science. Knowledge is divine for them and they don't hesitating to give courage in combat with citing the greatest invention of man or the scientific theory, like "for the glory of the transistor" and "by the spirit of Counter-Electric-Motor-Force!", also calling themselves each other brothers, like a great family. They believe on a thing called the "current flow", connecting them between the spiritual world of technology and the real world.

They have and revere many god called Tech-Gods, mostly based on electrical units or pre-War technology component, their domains being related to their function. The know Tech-Gods of the Reaver Movement are:


 * Be'alza-Gates, the acolyte of Satansoft (come from Beelzebub)
 * Electric Father of Creation, the creator of everything
 * Heavenly Ampere, the god of vision (come from the unit of electric current)
 * His Capacitance, a kind of guide for the Reaver Movement
 * Holy Ohm, the god of resistance (come from the unit of electrical resistance)
 * Panasonica, lord of the Eternal Assembly Lines of Panasonica (come from the corporation Panasonic)
 * Saint Di Ode, the god of protection (come from a diode - wrongly named Di Ode)
 * Saint Sony, the god of vision (come from the corporation Sony)
 * Satansoft, the god of evil technology and lord of the Tech-Underworld (come from Satan)

Like many religions, they believe in places similar to Hell and Paradise. The reaver Hell, the place of all evil technology (like the Calculator's robot) come is named the "Tech-Underworld" with a large electric current traversing it called the "Styx River". It's the domain of Satansoft (also called the "Dark One" by reaver priests) and his acolyte Be'alza-Gates, that control hostile technology to them. For them, the Calculator's robot are the hydroelectric fiends of Satansoft, also called hell spawns. The reaver Paradise, where the reavers and especially the fighters killed during an honorable battle came after the life is named the "Eternal Assembly Lines of Panasonica", the domain of Panasonica.

While Reavers revere technological instruments and weapons, they think hostile technology against them, like the Calculator's robots, are possessed by a evil god named "Satansoft" and are their creature, a "Satansoft's creature". Each pieces recover of hostile technology are surnamed "evil part". They also have something called the "Holy Multimeter", allowing them to get answers on something, but it's only available for consultation by reaver priests.

Relations with the outside
Before the official contact with the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel, the Reaver Movement was hostile towards anyone except the Gammorin's Army, patrolling sometimes together to cover an area too far west for the Gammorin's Army. As a zealous worship of technology and their past of raiders, they acting like them when they come to getting new technology, attacking anyone making their way through them and technologies. Apart from them, they see others as pagans without interest (even the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel).

Technology
They all wears atypical armors created with woven steel cables with plates interlocking steel mesh encased in cloth panels, like the reaver banding and greater banding. They are technologically strong in cybernetics enhancements and surgical augmentations, often use for their body, mostly scanning sensor that allow at least to sweep an area on twenty foot, detecting even a person in Sneak. They also known to used enhanced eye sight, hands surgical implants, central processor and valve-tube augmentation.

Also, reavers often carry high-tech weapons and their scientists have shown great disposition, being even able to invent new technological things like weapons. Their arsenal includes:
 * 7.62mm DKS-501 sniper rifle
 * CZ57 Avenger minigun
 * Glock 86 plasma pistol
 * M79 grenade launcher
 * pulse grenade
 * Steyr
 * Vindicator minigun
 * Wattz 2000 laser rifle
 * Winchester P94 plasma rifle

Each member (especially the warriors) also have plenty of stimpaks and super stimpaks.

Notable quotes

 * "Technology is not dead, technology is life!"
 * "Holy Ohm, help us resist our enemy damage."
 * "Heavenly Ampere, help us flow into the enemy's defense."
 * "May St. Di Ode protect me in battle!"
 * "What would St. Sony do?"
 * "The Tech-Gods will punish you."
 * "Eat my tech!"
 * "You're about to go off-line!"
 * "Give me your technology you pagan scumbag!"
 * "Kill them. Take their Tech. Save your souls."
 * "I run with the speed of a gamma!"

Appearances
The Reaver Movement appear only in Fallout Tactics.