
The situation changed completely after the Lone Wanderer, captured in Vault 87, returned from Raven Rock with information that the Enclave acquired one and could activate the purifier as soon as they realized the code. While, as sentinel, Sarah wanted to attack the Enclave at the Purifier immediately, before they could entrench their position and shore up defenses, Elder Lyons forbid the attack as too risky: The Citadel had barely enough men to defend itself and hold the perimeter, and the Purifier was useless to the Enclave without a Garden of Eden Creation Kit to kickstart the purification process. Ī chance encounter with the Lone Wanderer in Chevy Chase and the subsequent reappearance of the Enclave have paradoxically resulted in inactivity. She considered them undertrained and trigger-happy, and essentially wasteland trash. The sheer brutality of the super mutants (Sarah personally witnessed a strike squad wipe out an overconfident Brotherhood five-man team) and the attrition rate among local conscripts her father started recruiting to fill out the chapter left her with a negative impression of local wastelanders. War with the Enclave īy 2277, Sarah and her Pride was running constant operations in downtown D.C., keeping back the tide of super mutants. The starting point is the ability to reliably take down super mutants at 150 yards (about 130 meters). Each member of the Pride is hand-picked by Sarah, and openings only happen when she has to fill casualties. In recognition of her achievements, Owyn granted her the highest possible rank, sentinel, and allowed her to form the Lyons' Pride, an elite squad used to plug holes in the frontline and respond to the most dangerous of super mutant attacks.

Sarah remained loyal to her father, with her accumulated skills and experiencing rivaling his during his time as a paladin. He lied to the elder council about following the original mission, and eventually disobeyed direct orders, leading to Lost Hills breaking ties with him. Bunker, her father (promoted to elder from star paladin, for the discovery of Liberty Prime) gradually switched the chapter's mission from recovery to super mutant containment. As she rose to become one of the finest fighters at the D.C. Over the next twenty-two years, Sarah accumulated training, experience, and leadership skills.

in 2255, following The Scourge, and Sarah began combat training under the supervision of Paladin Tristan, with who she formed a close professional bond. in 2254, under the elders' council mandate to recover technology fron eastern cities and bases. Born in 2251, at Lost Hills in New California, the three year old Sarah lost her mother in infancy, and accompanied her father on the transcontinental expedition to Washington, D.C.
