Super Mutants

"'This is what death looks like! Up close! Look! Look at your death!'"Supermutants are a macabre horde of powerful, mutated behemoths with an insatiable blood-lust. They are commonly seen wandering throughout their bone littered expanse of territory, when not pre-occupied with raiding small, and sometimes large settlements. They are sworn rivals of the Brotherhood of Steel, because of this, they often clash with the group

History
Super mutants were first created on the West Coast by Richard Grey, also known as "The Master", who led the first human survivor expedition to Mariposa Military Base in 2102. When the expedition was attacked by the base's automated security robots, he was dipped in a vat filled with mature FEV in solution, and managed to crawl out. The FEV was initially meant to be injected into humans, but Grey soon found out that direct physical contact with its nutritional medium worked just as well. He began to mutate in horrible ways, turning into a fleshy, tentacled blob of sentient matter.

The mutated form of Grey developed psychic powers, which were enhanced by consuming living minds to expand his own psionic strength.

FEV
he Forced Evolutionary Virus, or FEV, is an artificial virus created by West Tek's NBC Division. Its ability to force changes in both the genotype and phenotype made it one of the most important mutagens in the wasteland, harnessed by different organizations and individuals for their own purposes both before and after the Great War.

The version responsible for creating regular super mutants is called FEV-II  and represents the pinnacle of pre-War research into the virus. A different, unfinished FEV strain is the source of the super mutants infesting the Capital Wasteland, intellectually inferior to their West Coast cousins. Other strains created the monsters of Appalachia and the distinct super mutants of the Commonwealth, as well as served as the basis for the Institute's third generation synths.

The FEV exists in various forms across all of the Wasteland, mainly to serve goals of the various antagonists. It was through the FEV that the Master made his super mutant army and how the Enclave meant to purify the world of mutation.

Ranking

 * Super Mutant
 * Super Mutant Brute
 * Super Mutant Master
 * Behemoth
 * Chieftain