#fallout concept

A faction that has repaired and maintained a train for generations and uses it to travel across the country.

They are a pastoral group that uses cattle transport wagons to move mutated sheep and other livestock during the night and heard them during the day. Sometimes they’ll come to a spot where they will stay for a longer time(till the sheep deplete the grass).

After the Great War, local law enforcement fell to the wayside in favor of taking care of one ownself. Individual communities stuck it out by themselves until the Raiders from Billings, and Highwaymen began making themselves a problem for the ranchers, and towns.

Former law enforcement, banded together to bring back Old West Justice. They do not have an official, single leader; they operate on popular opinion of the communities they serve. Each town under protection of the Vigilantes have their brand on the gates of the town.

Typically, each town in the Vigilante Network has a representative who stays in town, and acts as a sheriff (The Exception of Camp Crazy Mountain). They rely on the townsfolk and word of mouth to learn when Raiders are going to attack next, so they can thwart the attempts. There are a few informants who work for the Vigilantes.

The Vigilantes also patrol along the old I-90 interstate where Highwaymen hit caravans and travelers.

Their justice system is a brutal one, but is swift. When a crime occurs the Vigilantes are usually informed immediately. The severity of the crime determines the severity of the punishment. Theft, petty crimes, and first-time raider activity ends with a slap on the wrist, a couple weeks in the town jail. Second time offenders get a harsher sentence. Third time offenders in towns and murderers get a different treatment; on their homes they get a “3-7-77” painted on the outside, an old Montanan practice warning that they have to leave town within three days, seven hours, and seventy-seven minutes or be in the receiving end of Justice, whether it be hanging, or exile. (Usually Hanging since exile results in more raiders).

Captured Raiders are often interrogated, in order to get more information out of them, and are usually hanged when their usefulness runs out. Cattle-rustling, and horse thieves are hung as well.

Fallout: Republic

I honestly can’t see vault-tec being interested in building a lot of vaults in Montana because of the location and resources.

The Enclave had a bunker under Great Falls, but it was dammaged by the bombs and it wasn’t long until radiation leaked in and killed the inhabitants. It comes as no surprise with how distrustful of Big Government, so the Enclave didn’t have a strong foothold in the state, and any of the survivors of the Enclave vault are shunned from communities.