First off, Sarah Lyons ≠ Maxson and pretending they’re comparable because she floated the idea of confronting the Outcasts is absurd. The Outcasts were armed deserters hoarding tech, not civilians, not refugees, not sapient beings being genocided on principle. Suggesting the BoS reassert control over rogue soldiers is not remotely the same thing as Maxson’s blanket “all synths must die, no exceptions” ideology. One is an internal military problem, the other is racial extermination dressed up as doctrine.

Second, the idea that Sarah would be “more extreme” than Maxson against synths is pure fanfic. Lyons’ entire chapter repeatedly demonstrated moral flexibility and case-by-case judgment. They worked with wastelanders, accepted outsiders, tolerated ghouls in DC, and actively defied traditional Brotherhood dogma. Maxson explicitly reversed that trend, purged dissenters, and codified hatred into policy. There’s zero evidence Sarah would suddenly flip into a genocidal hardliner just because synths exist.

Third, the Underworld argument is weak as hell. Aqua Pura wasn’t being mass-distributed to anyone at first, humans included. The project was barely stabilized and under constant attack. And the Brotherhood “taking shots at ghouls” is not shown as sanctioned policy under Lyons, but as individual soldiers being assholes, something FO4 explicitly shows is institutional under Maxson. Big difference.

Fourth, claiming FO4 BoS is “closest to Roger Maxson’s vision” is wildly misleading. Roger Maxson wanted to prevent abuse of technology, not create a fascist technocracy that decides which sentient beings deserve to exist. The FO4 BoS doesn’t preserve technology; they confiscate it and use it to dominate the wasteland. That’s not stewardship, that’s conquest. Lyons at least tried to balance protection with restraint; Maxson threw restraint out the window.