The Institute

The Institute is an advanced scientific organization based in The Commonwealth.

It is known and feared for its ability to produce advanced synthetic humans (also known as synths) of high enough quality to pass as true humans.

The secretive nature of the Institute has turned it into somewhat of a boogeyman figure on the surface, and its presence is a major cause of paranoia for the people of the Commonwealth.

Leader

 * Nate (Sole Survivor)

Directors

 * BioScience Director
 * Robotics Director
 * Advanced Systems Director

Coursers

 * Z2-47

S.E.E.D. Initiative
The Sedition Enhancement & Enrichment Development Initiative is a test being done by The Institute to see how long they can keep the false illusion of humanity on five of their most advanced generation three synths to date. These synths have been designed to properly age, albeit much slowly and only in appearance, to combat the issues of people identifying their synths by their lack of aging.

These five coursers have been trained from "childhood" to think that they have been rescued from violent raiders after releasing them into the Wasteland for a short time. After The Institute showed up to rescue the five boys, they all became attached to the faction and were all essentially groomed by them to do their bidding. They all received combat training to aid their future endeavors to be sent out and clean up the Wasteland.

A certain individual stole key assets related to the truths, and if these were to leak; the information of aging synths would become widespread information. On the holodisk contains information on Subjects One to Five, everything from their creation up to the last log before the disk was stolen. The Institute saw this as an opportunity to hit two birds with one stone, recover the disk while killing the thief, and seeing how the courser reacts to learning about the truth for themselves, they would be monitored by one of their many Institute Watchers after all, and the leak isn't as valuable as the reactionary data they would gain from spying on this key moment.

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 * Subject One
 * Subject Two
 * Subject Three
 * Subject Four
 * [[Subject Five|Subject Five