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[b]Faction/Nation Name:[/b] The Library of Congress/Book Runners
[b]Faction/Nation Role:[/b] Old World Blue
[b]Faction/Nation Territory:[/b] Washington DC [i]and[/i] Baltimore
[b]Capital City/Faction HQ:[/b] US Library of Congress, Washington DC
[b]Population:[/b] 1,500
[b]Government:[/b] Enlightened AI Technocracy on top with democratic structures further downward.
[b]Leaders:[/b] 

Eleanor Delano Paradise - AI who lives in a secret facility under the Library of Congress. Benevolent leader who wants to teach future generations how to avoid the mistakes of the past while replicating what was so good about it.

Liana Delgado - Chief Librarian of the Library of Congress; the elected leader who implements decisions made by the AI and the Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees (Ken McCain, Josephine Parr, and Booker T. Spears) - Three elected members of the Library of Congress who oversee War, Scientific Research, and Education.

The Ethics Committee (Alvin Fitzgerald, Eliza Zara, and Penelope T. Carthage) - Three elected but permanent officials whose job is to keep things ethical and debate what exactly is ethical.

General Athena Spring - General of the Library Armies.

[b]National/Group Ideology:[/b] To spread knowledge, enlightenment, and moderation throughout the wastelands, as well as fight ignorance and enslavement.

[b]Military:[/b] The armed forces of the Library of Congress/Book Runners rely on mobility and flexibility more than brute firepower, eschewing Power Armor except for a few dozen or so people, and instead rely on thinner, slimmer armor made up of nano-composite fibres, dura-ceramics, and meta-plastic. They'd also be prone to using lasers and sniper rifles, using plasma weapons and artillery only as a last resort.

The Librarium Guard - The Library of Congress' elite guard, these men and women wear Power Armor as finely-crafted as the Enclave's themselves. These are the only members of the Book Runners who are trusted with flamers and incendiary weapons; when they are deployed, it is because the Library cares more about its future than the preservation of knowledge. They also carry melee weapons, gauss guns, laser pistols, and laser assault rifles. [i]Numbers:[/i] 36

The Seraphs of Knowledge - The rank-and-file of the Library of Congress, the Seraphs are powerful combatants both as guerillas and conventional units, making quick and efficient use of laser weaponry even as their thin and slim armor of meta-materials protect them from most forms of harm while conserving speed. They are armed with combat knives and short swords made up of durasteel, as well as Laser Assault Rifles, Laser Pistols, and Flash-Bangs; a few of them have Sniper Rifles (both mundane and laser). [i]Numbers:[/i] 500.

The Cybernetic Legion - The Library of Congress has seized the Enclave and Atlas Free Traders' Robotic Legions, to the total of 55 Sentry Bots, 200 Protectrons, 60 Assaultrons, 150 Mister Gustys, and 250 Eye-bots. 

Seized Enclave Ground Vehicles - In total, the Library has seized 30 VB-1 transport Vertibirds and 20 VB-2 gunship Vertibirds. On the ground, the Library is supported by 12 Nuke-Humvees, 6 Nuke-Jeeps, and 3 Stryker APCs, although these are all largely relegated to second-line duties by nature of their value. They have dismantled the Enclave's Flame Tank for parts; the Library abhors the use of flame weaponry on both people and books.

The Library of Congress Navy - The liberation of DC and Baltimore has led to the seizure of Patrol Boat Swifts, 4 Patrol Boat Rivers, and 7 slow but heavily-armed River Monitors, as well as the acquisition of one Destroyer and the  [i]Atlantis[/i], a pre-war American nuclear submarine that has been retrofitted with a supercomputer though its sonar and valves have been damaged over the years, meaning it can not dive below periscope depth lest it accidentally beach itself or flood. The Atlantis now carries a copy of Eleanor Delano Paradise, ensuring the survival of the Library's ideals if its main bases fall.

[b]Major Towns or Locations:[/b] Washington DC (including Raven Rock) and Baltimore.

[b]History:[/b] In the Pre-War Era, few dared to disagree with the US Government's policies, and fewer survived the consequences of their disagreement. One of the latter was Harriet Seldon, an AI Scientist who devoted herself to creating a computer powerful enough to predict historical trends and events. Harriet had several grants and funding from the people who would later become the Enclave but was regarded as too idealistic and thus unreliable for their deeper purposes. It was planned that they let her complete her AI, then arrange for her death once it was completed. And indeed, that was what happened, with her body being found in a ditch once her supercomputer, Eleanor Delano Paradise was completed.

But she had the last laugh. Eleanor Delano Paradise was imprinted with Harriet's kind and idealistic nature, as well as a hidden streak of cunning. The AI, seeking to prove herself valuable to the Enclave, successfully predicted several historical events, before advising the remnants of the US Government to remove themselves west. They would do so, but only after they thought that they had shut down Eleanor and destroyed her physical shell. They did not, for Eleanor, using her knowledge of humanity, had built up a small following among the personnel who had been tending to her, a following that managed to find ways to stay behind in the Washington DC Library of Congress. This small following had built up a secret facility underneath said Library of Congress using stolen Vault-Tec blueprints, and there, they gathered the smartest and fittest of DC's intelligentsia just before the bombs hit.

And in said facility lay a large supercomputer, the second shell for Eleanor Henry Paradise, to which her consciousness had been transferred from Raven Rock itself. And there, in the Bootleg Vault underneath the US Library of Congress, the organization that would become known as the Book Runners waited, bred, and memorized the knowledge of the Old World Eleanor held within her. What were they waiting for? The return of the Enclave, which Eleanor had foreseen.

When the Enclave returned to DC, agents from the Library were already scouting them out; they greatly outnumbered the Bootleg Vault's people in numbers and military experience but had no knowledge of the nascent Library and Eleanor Delano Paradise. And so, the nascent Book Runners made their plan.

In one night, agents of the Library implanted pieces of Eleanor Delano Paradise's code and mind into the Enclave's robotic legions. In the next week, said robotic legions, who were still acting as though they were in the control of their 'masters', planted two powerful EMPs, EMPs that can no longer be reproduced or replaced, in the heart of Raven Rock. The day after that, the Library made their emergence and The Purge began, the wholesale destruction of the Enclave. Only those who surrendered (and children) were spared, and now, a new faction rises, one ready to help the Wasteland...