Fallout 4: The University Point Massacre Shows How Evil The Institute Was
When the player stumbles across University Point in Fallout 4, it’s clear that the place used to be a settlement and quite recently at that. The place still has beds, makeshift farming grounds, and merchant stalls, but there are no settlers in sight.
Just a little to the northeast of Jamaica Plain in the map of Fallout 4, University Point was once a bustling community. It was a location that caravans frequented, trading and transacting with the settlers there. However, an unfortunate discovery by one of the settlement’s residents would lead to its ruin.
The Massacre of the CPG Cements the Institute as Fallout 4's Villain
Before the Great War, University Point was an institution known as the Mass Bay University. Professor Stuart Campbell was one of the employees who worked there, and at the time, was working on a project for the US military, which involved energy research. However, this research began without approval from the dean, Alan Patterson. Despite this, Campbell continued his research and even had a laboratory built underneath the university’s admin building.
Construction went through with no problems as the dean was on vacation at the time, but when he returned, he was furious at Campbell. Even then, Campbell didn’t stop his research project, explaining that the military wouldn’t be too happy if he did so. So, if Patterson wanted him to stop, he would have to talk to Colonel Rosemont, the project’s contractor. Suffice to say, Patterson failed to halt Campbell’s research. He and his two students — Leslie Mathews and Curtis Marsh — worked on the Fallout 4 research project in peace.
However, the team would be hindered by the bombs falling, well before the events of Fallout 4. During this time, only Mathews and Marsh
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