3 years after the events after the lone wander activated the purifier he left when he picked up a distress signal on pip boy to the commonwealth 3 months passed still no word of when the wanderer will return, people took advantage and a raider group called the phantoms rose to power gaining 200 members. The phantoms were more organized more skilled they finely arranged to attack the citadel most of the brotherhood were killed but Lyons pride 8 scrolls and the elder managed to escape.
After the downfall of the brotherhood the phantoms took the citadel and the there leader Jack mason held a huge raid across the wasteland. Almost all the settlements were destroyed but rivet city closed there bridge the phantoms threw frags and bottles at the entrance but it was unharmed wile megaton was mostly destroyed and the survivors were turned into there slaves. Tenpeny tower put up a good fight but in the end a member of the gang used a missile launcher he found one the way there to destroy the towers corners making it fall to the ground the phantoms left no survivors. The phantoms left paradise falls as it is to by slaves. All the rest of the small settlements were destroyed all people that survived were ether slaves or hiding. Talon company fought them of there base and are at war.
The Phantoms and talon fight although the DC ruins at night you can see the fire and here the guns go off. Madison lee has made a force field from the left over materials when the enclave took the purifier. The phantoms have established a outpost at the purifier and shoot anyone on site. 5 months into the fight the phantoms lead a huge attack on the talons fort the leaders Jack mason killed the commander and lead a proposal to the talons that were still alive join them or die all of them join.
Today the phantoms control the capital wasteland and kill or enslave all wasters they see. A prewar ghoul named Ella darkheart has herd what has herd what happened to the capitol wasteland and has a idea what to do, You see she came from the backwoods of Louisiana and here family practiced voodoo and knew a spell that her family has had when they started had a enchantment to make almost unstoppable person all she needed a cloak and a ancient blade a grave and a necklace that was her family jewel. She took the things and found a burial mound with a cross made of wood on it that read RIP Alexander Richards she put the cloak and the necklace on the mound and read the book she watched as the skeleton infused with the cloak and the necklace [censored] around its neck. It soon stopped and took a deep breath
What how are you?
Alex how do you fell?
Then he remembered everything he was in megaton with his family when the phantoms attacked , his family escaped but he was shot wile they were running to springhale they buried his body in the very spot they were talking
I remember everything. He said in a shuddering voice. Why and how did you bring me back
I will tell you letter first you must take the life of a raider my child.
When she said that she herd a scream she looked over the hill and could see a raider chasing a woman
What luck here take this blade kill the raider with it and when you do put your necklace on his heart know go!
Alexander went to save the woman and kill the raider