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It can be easy to see Science as evil, technology unchecked as the source of all ills, all misfortunes.

-Old World Blues ending narration

There are two things in Fallout 4 that really get me depressed. The first is when "The End of the World" plays on on the radio. The second is the realization that from what we've seen, every single technologically advanced faction in the setting is either utterly ruthless, insidiously manipulative, insane, anti-mutant, or a combination of the above. Every known chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel, the Enclave, the Institute, the Think Tank, the Calculator, the Van Graffs, the Zetans, it seems like the least nasty of such advanced groups would be House, and that's because he's "only" ruthless and calculating, and after 200 years, presumably quite consistent.

I love science and engineering, and I love the retro-futuristic Raygun Gothic super-science of Fallout. But it depresses me so much, when I realize that every faction capable of feats of engineering beyond 20th century artillery are too busy finding new ways to be unpleasant and exclusive, while acting on some morally myopic concept of "the greater good". Perhaps I'm simply barking up the wrong franchise, but I wish that "consistently at least remotely benevolent" and "technologically advanced" weren't always mutually exclusive.

I was always an NCR fan in New Vegas, but part of me thinks I should instead support House next time I play, simply to ensure that somewhere in the wasteland, there'll be technological growth and progress without the cost of ghoul genocide or synth subterfuge.

The Followers of the Apocalypse?

Also, NCR is actively supporting of technological progress which is the cause of the Brotherhood of Steel War.

I am saddened, also, by the East Coast Brotherhood's Face Heel Turn (see TVtropes.org).

Admittedly, I think I'm less troubled than most because I always play Science HeroesTM in the Wasteland.

Because in the post-apocalyptic world, Technology IS the critical resource in the Wasteland. He who owns the tech and the know how to use/make it, ultimately calls the shots.

It is notable there's numerous scientists who are good.

Arcade Ganon
Veronica Santiago
Doctor Mobius

Jason Bright

The entire settlement of Arryo after Fallout 2
James

It's just they don't possess much power in the Wasteland.