Citadel

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Citadel

Location	South-East Washington
Leader	Elder Lyons
Main Locals	Sarah Lyons Star Paladin Cross
Appearances	Fallout 3
Places of Interest	Citadel Courtyard
Related Quests	The Waters of Life Picking up the Trail The American Dream

The Citadel is the east-coast headquarters of the Brotherhood of Steel. It is built in and around the ruins of the Pentagon building. It's located north-east of the Arlington Library.

A Squad of Brotherhood members led by Owyn Lyons (who was a Palidin at the time) were sent from their main base in California to Washington DC to look for advanced technology and check out the reports of Super Mutants in the area. While searching the Capital Wasteland the Brotherhood came across a damaged, but still intact Pentagon, while searching the ruins of this former military masterpiece they discovered Liberty Prime, a giant robot originally built by the U.S military to help them liberate Alaska from the Chinese, however Liberty Prime wasn't finished on schedule and after the bombs fell it was left abandoned deep in undergrounds of the Pentagon.

The discovery of Liberty Prime was enough to get Owyn Lyons promoted from Palidin to Elder, his next job was to set up a new Brotherhood base in the Citadel, continue looking for advanced technology and work on completing Liberty Prime.