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By the sounds of it, it's kinda like three different Brotherhoods with the new release of Fallout 3, the original, the Midwest, and the Eastern factions. The original is focused entirely on acquiring and hoarding technology, losing sight of their goal to protect the innocents in the wasteland. The midwestern one in Fallout Tactics (the one the guild is based upon), which isn't outcasts, they were sent over the rocky mountains in airships which crashed in a lightning storm and with being cut off from the original BOS, forged a new one to regain all of the original values and mission of what the original BOS lost sight of, which is to protect the wasteland and acquire technology. The eastern one, by the sounds of it, it's more protection of the innocent based, even though they seem to try to acquire technology also by what I've read. By the sounds of it, they're like the midwestern BOS quite a bit, except more protection orientated perhaps, once again, not sure since I haven't played it. But judging by their power armors and whatnot, the midwestern one is definitely more advanced in their power armors and whatnot. But all three have one thing in common, thirst for pre-war technology, the original one is like obsessed with it and hoards it more instead of helping the innocent with it. In a war between the three though, midwestern (what our guild is based upon) would probably defeat the Eastern and the original is so powerful that it'd probably wipe out the small factions of the midwest and eastern probably quite easily, alot more soldiers, and alot more technology for it's soldiers to use, definitely alot more suits of power armor to go around. But since alot of their new recruits isn't battle experienced, that'd be their only downfall I'd say, where the midwestern one and the eastern one is battle hardened even as initiates due to being just thrown into the fray of constant war. But the immense firepower and the amount of soldiers would probably wipe out both, grinding them under their boot heels, especially since they wiped out the entire mutant threat on the whole western coast, sending what remnants of mutants there are to the midwest and east as their only areas at a chance for survival, while the other two factions struggle to tame the wasteland with what little numbers they have.

Sorry for the long and chunky post, I got carried away, I've thought about it quite a bit. But we're based mainly on Fallout Tactics, meaning the midwestern Brotherhood who was sent over the mountains to pursue the mutant threat that was retreating to the east and the lightning storm made us crash in the Chicago area where we built our base. With being separated from the original BOS, we were on our own and decided to reacquire our main and original mission, a fresh start for the Brotherhood so to speak, which is to bring peace to the wastelands while acquiring technology to help us do just that. Unlike the original Brotherhood, we're not entirely thirsty for technology, but we will go to lengths to acquire it, but we actually defend the innocents with that technology instead of just hoarding it like the original one, not using it to help them through force of arms. My theory on why the original BOS lost sight of their goal and became greedy for just technology is because they wiped out the entire mutant threat in their western California area, so no real intense threats like mutants, they turned inwards without any real challenges to face them, except maybe the Enclave, which was wiped out in Fallout 2, well, maybe wiped out, probably still some remnants perhaps. Another difference between the midwestern one and the eastern one is that the eastern one still has contact with the original, the midwest one has no knowledge of the eastern one and totally cut off from the original with no real desire to regain contact, operating entirely on their own.

Main Entry: broth�er�hood
Pronunciation: 'br&-[th]&r-"hud
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English brotherhede, brotherhod, alteration of brotherrede, from Old English brOthorr[AE]den, from brOthor + r[AE]den condition -- more at KINDRED
1 : the quality or state of being brothers
2 : FELLOWSHIP, ALLIANCE
3 : an association (as a labor union) for a particular purpose
4 : the whole body of persons engaged in a business or profession

Main Entry: 2steel
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English stele, from Old English style, stEle; akin to Old High German stahal steel and perhaps to Sanskrit stakati he resists
1 : to overlay, point, or edge with steel
2 a : to cause to resemble steel (as in looks or hardness) b : to fill with resolution or determination

And the new chapter of The Brotherhood Of Steel begins with EV ushering in a new era, best of wishes General, rule with an iron fist.