And now, the signal was their scream.

(Evil path) — Nate overwrites the Q.C.A. with his own neural pattern, becoming a living god of the machine. The bunker rises from the ground as a mobile fortress. The Commonwealth gets a new overboss—one who remembers the old world and is very, very angry. New faction: The Quantum Remnant . Preston Garvey will hate you. Reward: Q.C.A. Crown (headwear that gives +4 Intelligence, but every settler in your control loses happiness daily).

Five cores, scattered across the Commonwealth, each containing a fragment of Marcus Webb's soul. But each core had manifested a physical "echo"—a quantum ghost that could touch, kill, and be killed.

Nate, still wearing his faded Vault 111 suit under leather armor, followed the signal.