History of the Institute
Besides the Brotherhood of Steel, The Railroad, and the Minutemen, the Institute is one of the main factions of Fallout 4. However, unlike the other factions, they are quite isolated and most secretive. Depending on the player’s choices in the game, the Institute can be an enemy or an ally. Outside of what they do in Fallout 4, academy has a long and rich history that dates back to before the Great War.
This men had humble origins, starting out as just a school for higher education. However, after the bomb fell, what was left of the school slowly evolved into a post-war science project. They developed robotics technology, synthesis systems, and biological science facilities and gradually became known as heroes of the Commonwealth.
Commonwealth Institute of Technology
Before the bombs fell, the Institute was a campus known as the Commonwealth Institute of Technology. The professors, staff and students are outstanding in scientific discoveries. An employee invented it Assaultron class robot, some of the graduates later founded Cambridge Polymer Labs, and some went on to work for Vault-Tec. Under the university, there is an experimental nuclear reactor. When the Great War dropped the bombs, many staff members and students fled to the place where the nuclear reactor was located.
The underground survivors began to dig more space and build what would later be academy. Due to their background, what is built has more than living space, as they also build laboratories. Living safe from the horrors of the battle above, these survivors also started families.
Become an Institute
Institutes known in games are not founded by survivors Great War, but by their children. At first, they communicate openly with the outside world. When creating the first generation of synths, they used them to work with people in the Commonwealth to try to create a new stable government. However, mutual distrust on both sides caused these plans to fall apart. The institute decided it was better to quarantine.
As more and more scientific achievements took place underground, the Institute became more isolated; not only in terms of physical distance from the wasteland, but also in terms of goals and mindset. They began to believe that no one from above could understand the importance of the science they had made. They overcame pre-war technology in both their synths and in inventions like the molecular relay, which can teleport people and things in and out of the Institute. These huge strides set scientists apart psychologically from those in the Commonwealth, and the Institute decided to send synths for testing and surface searching.
New generation of Synths
The Institute’s favorite and defining project was their synths, but they eventually hit the road of further synths development. After the second generation, and in the year 2178, the Institute wants to create synthetic meat. They had limited resources and tried using FEV samples as a starting point while abducting Commonwealth citizens from above for experiments. The institute has already used FEV on these victims and will monitor their mutations before tagging and discarding their bodies. Research came to a halt in 2224, when scientists concluded that although they had developed two strains of FEV perfect for synths, radiation-induced damage in the subjects’ DNA was too much of an obstacle. towel.
In 2227, the Institute made a breakthrough when they stole a pre-War child from the cold lab Vault-Tec with a genetic code unaffected by radiation. Baby, Shaun, his DNA creates the third generation of synths. Therefore, Shaun is called “Father” because he is the father of all new synths. With the third synth generation completed, the FEV research was halted and abandoned.
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