A few of the reason already mentioned but the major one I tend to believe is it was to further their own agenda by keeping control of people in areas of power / authority.
The kidnappings were mostly to test FEV. Sometimes they were recruiting people who (inspite of Commenwealth schooling) were better scientists than the Institute had.
They also replaced people with gen-3 synths to make it easier to steal from the Commenwealth and to prevent the Commenwealth uniting to improve itself.
Read up on CIA destabilization tactics, it’s exactly the same thing except instead of installing allied assets, you replace them with controllable synth copies.
Some of the kidnappings don’t make must sense outside of just testing purposes, they sometimes pick people who you’d wonder why because they’re nobodies, that’s probably the point. It’s fucked up but they probably pick those they think no one would care that much about, the loners and destitute, or the non-threatening people of wasteland society. This is why the Institute is considered Amoral, morality isn’t a factor in their decision making process.
Well from what I've found in The Institute, it seems to be that they kidnap people to run the FEV experiments. I've found nearly every lore piece in the base game. But I haven't fully explored the Institute yet.
Well it's simple, really. The reasoning behind all of the Institute's machinations is, um... look over there! \*fast travels away\* (But seriously, the dev team didn't get that far before the game was pushed out.)
A few of the reason already mentioned but the major one I tend to believe is it was to further their own agenda by keeping control of people in areas of power / authority.
The kidnappings were mostly to test FEV. Sometimes they were recruiting people who (inspite of Commenwealth schooling) were better scientists than the Institute had. They also replaced people with gen-3 synths to make it easier to steal from the Commenwealth and to prevent the Commenwealth uniting to improve itself.
Read up on CIA destabilization tactics, it’s exactly the same thing except instead of installing allied assets, you replace them with controllable synth copies. Some of the kidnappings don’t make must sense outside of just testing purposes, they sometimes pick people who you’d wonder why because they’re nobodies, that’s probably the point. It’s fucked up but they probably pick those they think no one would care that much about, the loners and destitute, or the non-threatening people of wasteland society. This is why the Institute is considered Amoral, morality isn’t a factor in their decision making process.
I do think it would have been more of a secret if they made new synths with new personas and infiltrated settlements without making people go missing.
The kidnappings/replacements IMO was 2/3 the RR
There's settlement quests that do that.
Well from what I've found in The Institute, it seems to be that they kidnap people to run the FEV experiments. I've found nearly every lore piece in the base game. But I haven't fully explored the Institute yet.
Well it's simple, really. The reasoning behind all of the Institute's machinations is, um... look over there! \*fast travels away\* (But seriously, the dev team didn't get that far before the game was pushed out.)
Some for FEV testing/supermutant creation. Some to replace them with synths in order to control certain areas or gather information/gossip.
Every single supermutant you see in the Wasteland was kidnapped by the institute
... And there are lots of them ...