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So yeah, thanks Elder Arthur Maxson, for noticing the world is about to be destroyed.
Screw the Western Chapter.
Long live the Eastern Chapter.
I love how they treated the BoS in this game. Went back to the old docturne, but with the old Eastern Chapter ideas along with it.
Well, Minutemen is also morally correct; but they can't help synths because they are busy trying to help everyone. Railroad are the only faction helping Synths as their focus. (Both are the more good aligened.
except the railroad is tricking synths into believing they are human which is horrible, remember how Danse reacted when he found out? Lets also not forget synths are more dangerous if they turn bad and one became the leader of raiders.
they're not creating a bomb, they're building a nuclear reactor.
Obviously Spoilers ahead.
The institute's goal is to create a perfect slave workforce (the synths) for the betterment of mankind. they're also trying to build a nuclear reacter so they can be self-sustained and outlive the people on the surface who they believe at this rate will kill themselves off in the distant future. They believe it will be up to the human population of the institute to start over while using thier slave workforce for all the heavy lifting/protection.
The kidnappings are a little more complex than it seems, there are multipile reasons people disappear:
Early on the Institute attempted to make the synths public, which didn't go very well as people feared the syths and treated them like monsters, so the institute recalled them and started looking for a way to make them blend in with the normal population.
The Institute is experimenting with synths that can mimic a real person as close as possible, for this they need to see if they can replace somone and have noone even notice the switch was made. They mostly used people who they had witnessed die either from raiders, mutants, or other creatures to replace and return to their original lifestyle. However as the need for tests accelarated they decided to test it on select individuals.
Some Synths who either had thier programming wiped by the railroad to be "free" started a new life or malfuctioned and started to mass murder people. When the coursers appear to deactivate them and take them back for reprogramming it seems to the people of the commonwealth that the institute is kidnapping them.
If they only wish to out live the people on the surface and rebuild with a synth slave force, then why are they trying to make the gen 3 synths so close to humans if they would only be used for manual labor and protection. I remember someone in the institute tells you the institute motto which was something like "Humanity evolved" or something similar to that which makes me think they want to replace humans with synths entirely and "evolve" the human race to the next level by creating better humans. But in any case bethesda shouldve made the institutes end game more clear.
I went with the institute questline and had no idea about some of the stuff posted above, it really helps to clarify things.
Which just goes to show how poorly explained the Institute is as a whole.
I found it really interesting that you could remain a morally upstanding character while supporting the Institute and wiping out all the other factions. I haven't read anything about the number of possible endings Bethesda created for the game, but I played it by sticking with the Brotherhood well after Maxson gives you hell for protecting Paladin Danse, all the while keeping a safe distance from the Institute, but secretly thinking they were cool as hell. The way the quests worked out in my game was, I was sent to Mass Fusion by the BoS and the Institute within about 20 minutes of each other and ultimately decided to fight the BoS and get the dealie for the Institute so they could power their reactor. Then I relayed in to the airport and wiped out the whole Brotherhood. The ending I got was that Shaun died peacefully of his illness and I took over the Institute. No nuking the Commonwealth, no replacing everybody with synths, just sunny ways. People are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about Bethesda's removal of the karma system in this game, but I really appreciate they thought they put into the end game here.
Well Shaun creates a Synth to play the part of himself as a child, to make their father or mother happy. So while the Synth are definitely there to be servants and obey their every whim, it would be strange ordering something that looked like a machine around. It would also be pretty lonely, eventually being only a handful of humans among machine men. At least with the human facade there's a bit of cognitive dissonance between creating what are essentially humans to interact with while denying them human rights. That and there's a reason even in our world we are constantly trying to make machines think more as humans would. Humans can handle complex tasks and problems. We are adaptable and can make split-second decisions in reaction to changes when nobody is around to guide us, based on judgement and morals. A simple machine is not capable of this. It will follow protocol and little else because its mind is rigid. So the Institute requires a labor force of humans that they can lord above as masters.