Glory pretending to be a synth

[big stupid jellyfish]

After wiping out the RR in my latest playthrough (i wanted to see what would happen if Tinker Tom wasn't around to decode the Courser chip) i noticed that Glory didn't have a synth component on her. Does anyone know why she pretended to be a synth all along?
Screenshot:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=680143449

[MaximumEffort]

Thats a known fact. She does not drop a component

[Zombified]

Because someone at Bethesa didn;t sleep well the night before finishing up the loot on Glory lol
OR Sturges stole her synth chip... or the dev team just can't keep track of all the things they have to do.

[BizarreMan]

Or maybe the drop is random and sometimes she has it and other times she doesn't?

[Atma]

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

Or maybe the drop is random and sometimes she has it and other times she doesn't?

Possible. There was a synth brahmin in my settlement (I found after murdering it), but after reloading the save, the brahmin was no longer a synth when I murdered it again.

[Straybow]

The synth component problem has only increased my paranoia, best bet is to kill everybody just to be certain :)

[Democracy Officer 0311]

i heard someone post up a possible conspiracy that hopefully we can experience one day where you run into a clone of yourself and he is threatening to kill you screaming you are a synth, so you naturally kill him because he's the synth but then you don't find a component on him... which means you're a synth an you only know what the institute wants you to know..man..that would be an amazing quest..

i personally have collected many synth components,finding them hiding in my settlements.. so if someone did kill me they'd find a stack of synth parts.. which for all i know have been on me the entire time.. and i just was programmed to think i "looted" them.

[Deku Scrub]

Could Synths have their chip surgically removed?
I mean, they already go through facial reconstruction.

[Democracy Officer 0311]

Originally posted by Mister Mystery:

Could Synths have their chip surgically removed?
I mean, they already go through facial reconstruction.

Playing F04 made me realize we actually go through a synth quest in F03 in ratchet city where you can either save /kill or turn in a synth who had gone through facial reconstruction posing as a guard there named harkness. I killed him the first time through and he didn't have a component from what i remember.

[Atma]

Originally posted by Mister Mystery:

Could Synths have their chip surgically removed?
I mean, they already go through facial reconstruction.

I don't think they can, y'know, "live" w/out the component. They are still technically machines, and I would assume the component helps to govern their internal systems.

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Mister Mystery:

Could Synths have their chip surgically removed?
I mean, they already go through facial reconstruction.

I suppose we don't really know exactly what the chip is/does (restraining bolt, processing unit, whatever). If it is removable it has ramifications concerning what exactly synths are. Could be an oversight, I might not be remembering details from months ago.

[shogun459]

Glory, and everyone else at the RR are Not Synths.
And that makes perfect sense.
They live in fear of being infiltrated, they are exceedingly paranoid about it.
They just can't risk it.
BUT they have to put up a front or the Synths won't trust them.

Think Tinker Tom would let a Synth with an undetectable chip in their head, that could be turned on at any moment, sleep next to him? "Murder us all in the night!", is what Tom would say.

[shogun459]

Originally posted by Mister Mystery:

Could Synths have their chip surgically removed?
I mean, they already go through facial reconstruction.

IF I were to do this, I would have the organic tissue of the brain grow into and around the chip.
The chip itself would be oversized and mostly porous near organic with non-metalic micro fibers circuits.

just sayin. lol

[grinja]

Sorry for necroing this, but what if Glory really isn't a synth? As you can see, she looks African American, just with white hair pretty much. What if Oxhorn (his video on YouTube about Glory) was actually getting closer to the truth when he said: "What if she's a liar? What if she's not a synth?"

The more I think about it, it just sounds less and less ridiculous in my honest opinion. Why?
Get this: What if Glory and Gloria van Graff from New Vegas is the same person?
They're both pretty much African American. Gloria van Graff doesn't have white straight hair. But maybe she lied about her being a synth, then straightened and bleached her hair to add to the lie when she joined the Railroad? Maybe she wanted to forget her background at Silver Rush and just decided to travel to the opposite side of the US? Or maybe she was just bewildered to believe she was a synth? The New Vegas and Fallout 4 timelines are just 6 years apart after all. Only plausible error I've found so far is that Las Vegas and Massachusetts is on complete opposite sides from each other, and that's far considering that air and ground transport is scarce after the great war. But one could definitely make it from Las Vegas to Massachusetts by foot just within months.

I'm not saying "YES! THAT'S IT!" It's just a theory of mine.

[Wings]

Assuming that yes, it's an oversight. I have a different question... was Glory a Courser?

Bit of trivia, even if you take the Institute out with the Minutemen. Glory is still treated as dead. She is silent and everyone else talks as if she's dead.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Wings:

Assuming that yes, it's an oversight. I have a different question... was Glory a Courser?

Bit of trivia, even if you take the Institute out with the Minutemen. Glory is still treated as dead. She is silent and everyone else talks as if she's dead.

It's probably not an oversight, unless we think they made the same oversight with pretty much the entire synth population of the Institute.

However, this makes sense in either one of two scenarios regarding the synth component's purpose:

1. It's an optional components that assists teleportation, like the courser chip (but presumably with less authority), which is why it appears mostly on synths outside the Institute.
   
2. It's used when the developers want to make it clear someone is a synth and has no other purpose. Glory doesn't need one because we're already told her identity.