Shale Hawthorne

Shale Hawthorne is a super mutant who seems to be wearing a mish-mash of different affiliations of faction armor. He leads the Ork Empire. He, willingly or not, created the faction known as the Creechers. His exact location is hard to pin down, as he seems to always be moving from place to place; never staying in one location for very long.

Shale much like Lieutenant was created by the Master, but unlike Lou who became the Master's right hand man, Shale had other ambitions and was able to reason and walk away from his group peacefully but becoming banished and branded in the process, taking on a painfully large symbol burnt onto his chest, a symbol used by the Master to mark failures; a large realistic eye crossed out entirely with an X mark.

After leaving and roaming the wastes for many years, Shale used his newfound mutant strength and intact human charisma and reasoning to start gathering people of all backgrounds and origins into his rank, slowly forming an army of his own. He took in raiders, slavers, settlers, former members of militant factions such as the Brotherhood of Steel and Enclave, the NCR and Legion, they all became persuaded either through charm or intimidation to follow his cause. He took the Master's idea of Unity and converted it from genetic to memetic, instead of forming the strongest biological creature; he would create the worlds strongest ideological group, instead of combining the cat and dog to make something new, he would unite the two and make them allies, not an amalgamation but coexistence

His long march from Mariposa all the way in the West to New York all the way in the East; he amassed a massive following of not only soldiers, but builders, doctors, people that could make changes to the world and also defend them from invasion. Taking his people he settled in New York, picking the lush and overgrown Central Park as the groups central base and finally deciding on the factions name - the Ork Empire.