The Near Islands wrote:While East Coast Supermutants are generally considered simple, they possess the ability to create long-range radio towers that allow them to contact with super mutants as far away as Texas. This is made even more impressive by the fact that one of the most powerful OTL radio stations based in Cincinnati barely reaches Chicago, but I'd imagine several hundred years of being reliant on radios for long-distance communication would cause their technology to be much better than the OTL.
IIRC though, the Texas Supermutants are Mariposa rather than Vault 87 or Institute. Which from my understanding, are a lot more intelligent and have a wider range of personalities - with many wanting to integrate with humans rather than murder/enslave them. So perhaps there might be a rivalry between the two races eventually, but I could be wrong.
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You're not wrong about them being Mariposa, but I suppose I should've been more specific. I'm going kinda for the idea of multiple splintered groups of Attis remnants, with the one in contact with Shephard being more hardline mutant supremacists. /skip