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History: 2287-2295

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2287-2288: Nate's Reign Began

Nate allied with the Minutemen to build up communities
Nate allied with the Brotherhood of Steel to be protectors of the Commonwealth
Nate took control of the Institute from his son. The Institute provided advances in science, farming, and medicine.
Despite the Railroad's protests against the Institute, Nate made peace with the Railroad, which led the charge for synth protection and rights.

2288-2293: War, Peace, and Settlements

With the help of Institute synths and coursers, Brotherhood patrols led attacks against thriving raider groups, including the Gunners throughout the southern portions of the Commonwealth, including Quincy and the Gunner's Plaza.

Community centers were built in Cambridge, Concord, Fort Hagen, Jamaica Plain, Lexington, Malden, Salem, Southie, and Quincy. Other settlements started to establish themselves due to the Minutemen and Brotherhood working together to clear threats such as raiders, super mutants, feral ghouls, deathclaws, mirelurks, and feral dogs and then repair and build structures and turret defenses.

Smaller communities were established as corporate farmlands: Abernathy, County Crossing, The Slog, Finch Farm, Sunshine Tidings, Tenpines, Warwick Homestead, Somerville Place, Oberland Station, and Greygarden, among others.

Parts of Downtown Boston started to get cleared out. After Robert MacCready was elected mayor of Diamond City, he started to expand the parameters of the "city" beyond the Great Green Jewel into the surrounding areas. Crews would clear out and build defensive structures, and more people began moving off the field area and into rebuilt structures for more room and privacy. MacReady started to dismantle shacks on the field area, including Nate's home there, Home Plate.

Corporate interests started to take hold. With a safer Commonwealth, traders in Bunker Hill started to spread out to more desirable locations, establishing their own "territories":
Trashcan Carla - Lexington's Super Duper Mart became a goods warehouse.
Doc Weathers - Established a medical supplies trading center at the National Guard Training Yard.
Deb Merchant and Kay Merchant - Started to supply goods and entertainment near the Brotherhood of Steel Headquarters at Boston Airport. Deb and Kay made East Boston Prep their own headquarters, with the Easy City Downs offering downtime entertainment to residents of nearby Nordhagen Beach and Boston Airport.
Lucas Miller - Lucas made the treasured land, Jamaica Plain, into his own "treasure box," as he called it. Lucas dealt in weapons and armor, but also helped manage the trade of stone from the nearby Quincy Quarry.

Other business enterprises included the following:
Isabel "The Mechanist" Cruz - Built a new robot production factory and service center at Fort Hagen
Arlen Glass - Fixed up Wilson Atomatoys' Corporate HQ, known after as just Atomatoys. He then started producing toys for the Commonwealth's children, including the once-popular luxury toy, the Giddyup Buttercup.

2291-2294: Mysterious Stranger Appeared

No one spoke to the Mysterious Stranger but Nate. Even Nick Valentine tried to investigate the Stranger, but his friend Nate would not tell him anything. On their own, Nate and the Stranger spent a lot of time on the fringes of the Commonwealth. They double-handedly wiped out gang establishments west of the Commonwealth at Nuka-World. Nate spent more of that time also concentrating on baseball and led the construction of baseball parks in each settlement community the Stranger and he visited. The Stranger mostly remained unseen except when needed and always silent in public. He remained a mystery until he was seen no more sometime in 2294. No one really remembers the last time or place he was seen.

2294-2295: Baseball Takes Hold

With the idea of baseball camps given to him by the Stranger, Nate educated many of the youth around the Commonwealth about the fundamentals of the game. Children from 6-18, along with some adults, spent a lot of time learning about and playing the game. Baseball became an obsession of the Commonwealth, taking over as the major pastime over former favorite pastimes such as drinking, fistfighting, and sniping.

Diamond City was fully moved to neighboring buildings with the Great Green Jewel being reconstructed back into a baseball stadium and the headquarters of Nate's ideas for a Commonwealth baseball league. MacCready moved out of the press box as his mayor's office to the nearby Hangman's Alley Hotel, and Nate established his office in the box, looking over the field.

2295: Council of Baseball Executives Established

Commissioner: Nate Howard

Operations and Corporate Interests: MacCready, Moe Cronin, Cait Irish, Sturges Freeman, Desdemona, Gwen McNamara, Daisy Librarian, Arturo Rodriguez, Deb Merchant

Brotherhood Rep: Paladin Danse
Institute Rep: Liam Binet
Minutemen Rep: Preston Garvey
Railroad Rep: Deacon

Media Relations and Coverage: Piper Wright, Nat Wright-Kowalski, Travis Miles, Anne Hargraves, George Cooper, Rex Goodman

Security: Arthur Maxson, Lancer Captain Kells, Selected Brotherhood members

Nate, along with his council, established the incorporated Commonwealth Baseball Organization to begin operations on 1 January 2296. They divided the Commonwealth into four regions that would make up the entirety of its league.

Nate began taking applications for potential owners, coaches, players, and CBO staff. By November of 2295, he had a pool of nearly 1500 players available for the 2296 season based on league rules, giving the OK to establish 24 teams throughout the Commonwealth.