As Veronica points out, it's all up to HOW the Codex is interpreted, and if 'protecting mankind' is taken to mean guarding them then they will guard them, but if 'protecting mankind' is taken to mean prohibiting them then they will intervene. I mean, yeah, this can't all be blamed on the NCR, it was shitty leadership on their part, but there goes the saying 'You can only push a man so far.'Ĭlick to expand.It's not as cut-and-dry as enforcing or ignoring the codex that determines the BOS's shade of grey. So I figured, they probably just adopted a 'fuck them' attitude, went into hiding, and completely separated themselves with the outside world. They tried to throw in their own two-cents, and the NCR didn't want it unless the Brotherhood was agreeing to be their puppets, and they weren't having that shit. But the New California Republic pushed them toward this point. When they see the NCR taking high-grade pre-war weaponry and throwing it toward their military (something the BOS was created to combat in the first place, people using advanced technology against other people), of course they are going to step in and say, 'What the fuck?'Īnd we see them even more unwilling to help people in the events of New Vegas, and even more direct toward holding only military technologies, and technologies that generally benefit the population. The Brotherhood of Steel IS STILL the Brotherhood of Steel, and they still have their codex to live by. However, we know this all eventually ended. But after the NCR fully comes to power in California, the Brotherhood of Steel seems to go work more closely with them, even going as far as to offer technical assistance with their shit and become a sort of 'technological-adviser' toward the New California Republic government. Sure, we could also say here that they are just 'spying on the people'. The Brotherhood of Steel becomes more and more open toward communities, even opening branches up in the major cities of California Wastes. We see more of this after the events of the first Fallout and a little bit after the second Fallout. Or, we can say that at this point he really did try to reach a helping hand out toward the wasteland. Maybe, we can say he was being an asshole and only bothered to help you with the mutant problem because he feared the destruction of his own organization. It seemed as if he was attempting to keep strict to the 'codex' laid down by the Brotherhood of Steel's founding fathers, but also knew he couldn't let mutants rampage all over the fucking world. I actually liked the High Elder in the first Fallout.

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