Automatron 4: The Twisted Story of the Secret Robobrain Facility - Fallout 4 Lore 

You know, I just thought about something. In Fallout 4, since you're playing as the Sole Survivor, reading about a lot of these insidious and dark projects that went on and such hit much closer to home; these were projects going on _in your lifetime_ , maybe even on people you _knew_ or were _related_ to.

Taking socio-paths and putting them into robot bodies with weapon systems...what could possibly go wrong???

That teddy bear with the screwdriver is clearly the Mechanist.

“These are extremely disturbing, I’ll read them word for word” have I ever mentioned I love this channel

"That's 5-10% better than the fallout 3 Mezmertron." NOW that's what I call progress...

When I saw the deathclaw x-ray for the first time I thought the 'final boss' could be a cyborg deathclaw.

The mechanist got this facility up and running again, and probably had to obtain new heads for new robobrains. As a result, they probably tried to use the heads and brains of undesirables to avoid killing innocents for more robobrains.

the extractor sunrise should've been a craftable drink

There were Super Mutants before the war, FEV was another military program that the Master later picked up and tinkered with. The helmet being there is a bit odd though...

I always imagined that the ghouls and super mutants got there because the mechanist brought them there to extract there brains

I guess you could say that the inmates were the real "brains" of this operation!

Every time I go through the multi-layered robot identification doors, the 1965 Get Smart intro comes to mind.

This is one of the more disturbing pre-war facilities in the games. Probably the only worse place I can think of is Big MT, where they did all manner of research and experimentation to make weapons and technology for the war effort. Including experimenting on Chinese prisoners of war and unwitting US Citizens in cities around the country. They also deliberately made some of the dangerous creatures of the Mohave, like Nightstalkers and Cazadors. Pre War America was a very messed up place, since Fallout is meant to be an exaggerated example of the worst parts of humanity, corporate greed, greed in general and the military industrial complex throwing the world into a war with no winners. A couple of things.. I don't think the doors in the incineration room were the incinerators. They look more like morgue storage drawers. I theorized that they stored the bodies of the test subjects until they had a bunch of them, then fired up the incinerator at the far end of the room to get rid of them. That way they didn't have to have it running constantly. One possibility about the possible post war inclusions of deathclaws, mutants and ghouls is that while the Mechanist robobrains were out and about they were bringing back test samples to act as replacements. Common robots were easy enough for the Mechanist to make, but there were only so many robobrains to go around. A lot of them are used in the command center. And eventually some of the ones sent out to the Commonwealth would go missing, destroyed or just never returning. Jezebel was captured by the Rust Devils. So, it's possible that either the Mechanist told the robobrains to bring back non-human test subject to see if they could use them to make new robobrains. Or the facility or robobrains themselves was bringing them back after a general order to produce more robots, without the Mechanist's direct order. It's equally likely that they are relics of pre-war times though. After all, several terminals mentioned concern about the supply or prisoners not keeping up with demand. It's possible they requisitioned test subjects from other military experiments to see if some of their work could be re-purposed for robobrains. It is also possible that the ghouls in the tank were mean to represent preserved human bodies. The game doesn't have an intermediate death state model after all. It's either a fresh corpse or a skeleton. Ghouls are the closest thing to a partially decayed or preserved body. That seems least likely though. The facility has no reason to want to keep bodies intact. They just wanted the brains.

Umm.. They got excited not because the brain was exhibiting tendencies towards violence, but because the brain was able to handle the electronic integration. The tendencies towards violence would be simply flushed out once the memory wipe had been carried out. Without any memories, they have no world model in which to draw personality traits from.

Imagine a fully functional armed robo brain remembers who he is

Sarah: *tries to empathize with robot* Justin Green: “Imma bout to end this girl’s whole career.”

I think alot of this "lore breaking" content can be explained away by the fact that there is a post-war human living here. He/She could have done alot of exploration and research in this facility before you got there. As inhumane it is to continue this research, i believe it is possible

Roses are black Violets are black the Trees are black the Grass is black OHH GOD EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE

33:32 The Super Mutant could have come from Huntersville, WV, as FEV was deployed there by West-Tek before the war.

It's awesome you take such a moralistic tone, it really drives home the horrors what actually happened at some of these facilities. It's easy to walk thru this level and just say Oh neat, look- but when you stop to think, it's- Diabolical, as one stellar RU-vidr sometimes exclaims lol Edit: I can't believe all the times I went thru this level and never noticed it was a janitor uprising and not the nuke option. Mind blown.

funnily enough, nick valentine's nemesis also experimented with ghoulification. my guess is that if a group of street thugs could do it, the military could do it easily.

The ghouls in R&D may have been human when the facility was active. And when I came across the deathclaw X-Rays, I assumed the Mechanist was performing further research into Robo-Brains. I never noticed the Super Mutant’s head, but the same could be said about it.

Whoa! That bypass at the end could come in really handy in a Survival run. I never would have thought of it in a million years, thanks Bethesda for hiding it in plain sight and thanks Oxhorn for figuring it out!

The Robobrain facility's preserved mutants and ghouls could be the fruits of a military super soldier program who would've been deployed with the proto Deathclaws

So what's the deal with the robobrain vault in Far Harbor? Because those people did it by choice to live past the nuclear war, so was the government in on it, and did the public know about this?

Those inmates just don't want their brains removed...HOW SELFISH OF THEM

Fallout 4 Oxhorn: There are only three sources of super mutants. Fallout 76 Oxhorn introduces the FEV experiment on the town

Just imagine having a big taco bell lunch and having to go to the bathroom just for protocol five to be activated

I think the Mechanist was using any brain that could be caught, even if it was from super mutants, radstags and ghouls.

23:10 A22 may be the Pint-Sized Slasher from Fallout 3 (It could be that he was either a midget or dwarf due to him being described as short in Fallout 3

Just imagine how Nate feels he fought for his country to only discover all the horrible things they did

Of all the things in the Fallout Universe, I think this one disturbed me the most. The sheer inhumanity of it. Nothing that Vault-tec ever did in any of their vaults compares to someone being trapped in their cell and slowly becoming a feral ghoul over the decades. That's utterly insane. The cake thing is just the icing.

Poor cybermech scrapbot being abused by ada...

i didnt need a robot to get in the machinists lair. my game has a glitch that made the doors scan me and it would open even if the robot wasn't in the same room.

He completely missed the elephant in the room. The locked institute terminal in the lab area. Only one in the whole place, and attached to a broken display case. Was this nick's brain? Or did the institute use this place to extract the soul survivors brain and use those memories to create you as a synth?

What I learned from all this: Give the military the power to force companies towards the war effort and it will lead to some pretty awful outcomes

This clearly resemble fate of criminals sentenced to Servitude Imperpituis. In this case this is good, because this is the will of Omnissiah. Praise him!

"To quote Baldrick, a cunning plan." The funny thing about that reference is that Baldrick (Starting in season 3) was one of the resident idiots in the Blackadder series, meaning that his 'cunning plans' were on average zany schemes that the titular character would end up going with anyway when things really got bad enough.

Reminds me of the servitors and cogitators from the 40K universe. They're pretty creepy too,

does any one else think that this sounds like the SCP Foundation?

I've been eagerly waiting for the lore on this. Thank you!! Your explanations always make me pick the game back up just to go explore the things you showcase in your videos.

There is much more to discover, i found two secret rooms by using tcl accidentaly- one is about making robobrains and second about super mutant fev virus so yes, its probably not bethesda"s mistake

Your ability to follow the story plotline is amazing.

Playing through this expansion hit me in the same way the walking dead or Jericho hits you. Here are these resources, this prewar factory capable of bringing back some humanity's industrial capacity, but the flawed nature of man nearly throws it all for everyone in the commonwealth. I'm glad you're able to take over the facility and I'd like to think that solo survivor invests the time and energy to bring it back into operation.

I'm glad you made this. I was very confused about the Deathclaw x-rays, though I never noticed the Supermutant heads before. I just finished the Mechanist earlier today, and left my thoughts and experiences on your other Mechanist video. Have a good night.

This was possibly the darkest part of the game, meaning it actually made me physically ill. Something else incredibly dark is the whole ghoul forced exodus from Diamond city that killed hundreds. Everyone knows it happened but either pretends not to know about it or is totes okay with outcasting their own citizens> How Nick can live there and not feel morally repulsed I don't know.

It is tragic. I am an adult now. I no longer have the ability to play video games for hours... No longer have the time to develop a character and follow the breadcrumbs of environmental storytelling. But these videos allow me to enjoy my favorite series once again

I can really tell how much work you put into this video. Thanks!

When i first discovered the Deathclaw and Super Mutant Heads, i remembered the fresh looking blood one of the subject rollers, so i wondered if somebody else used the facility before Isabel.

The FEV was a military program before the war and as for the helmet on it it might be because the heads are randomly generated and they are different for each game, for example I dont remember the head having a helmet so I guess Bethesda was lazy and just made the super mutant heads random

I feel like someone should make a mod for fallout where Oxhorn is a companion that just keeps doing commentary over whats happening around you. It'd be beautiful. plus, cool companion with a cool beard :D

I remember reading some where in the game that protectrons were really dangerous and unsuccessful because they would kill anyone if they detected any criminal act and killed lots of innocent people

YESS IVE ALLWAYS WHANTED LORE ON THIS CREEPY PLACE

32:11 Nop, I think she was excited because the subject was showing stable mental state and cognitional capability. As long as the memory wipe is through, it would be an excellent material for robobrain.

I think it’s cool now the events of Huntersville in 76 can now play into how the military could have possibly known about the super intents in pre-war America

Perhaps the Super Mutant was a baseline. They probably had a few to see how it would work on the pre-war population, sent to different facilities for study. The error was probably the helmet, twas supposed to be just the head.

At Sunshine Tidings Co. there's a billboard that says "SAVE THE ROBOTS!" Maybe the protectrons rebelled because there was an organization that helped free robots from slavery, similar to the railroad.

Awesome video like usual Ox Horn, I really gotta thank you for keeping me interested in a game and universe that I never really got into at first. Keep up the great work.

Watching this Video makes it very clear to me how much I miss in Fallout.

It's so shocking and disturbing when you first encounter the room full of brains inside a jar

Oxhorn! I do like all these lore videos, but it's like you forget what brought you to some of these places. This facility, for example, you (and we all that have played this quest line) were guided here to hunt down the Mechanist. It's hard to believe that in 200 yrs. the Mechanist, or anyone who may have come before didn't mess with any thing just for lark, in may freaking out any following visitors.

These episodes should be on Netflix. fantastic quality, keep up the great work.

Ok so I usually just run through the terminal stuff, but your videos are making me question my practices. Well done sir!

I had no idea you could skip basically the entire dungeon. That's neat.

When you think about Hunterville in FO76, the Super mutant in a jar kinda makes more sense

I swear I remember hearing in Fallout 1 or something (Like in the Glow or something) that the US Military was testing FEV on people before the war?

16:47 Teddy bear: I think I'm almost done with this robot, just need to build another arm and leg

lmfao I love how you read the Robobrain transcripts in robot voice. Fallout storytelling at its absolute finest. Great vid as always Ox.

You could say that choosing weather or not to kill the mechanist was a conscious decision. I regret nothing.

You got a sub from me fella. I love your Lore videos, they're very engrossing.

i played new vegas when it came out back in middle school but i never realized how much lore is in the series. I love this channel and im going to find time between work and school to go back and play new vegas again

all the lore inaccuracys regarding the the ghouls, super mutants, and deathclaw xray is easy to explain: the Mechenist.

Yeah not gonna lie that part for whoever they labeled A22 sounds like Johnny 5 in a way. Humans need to adopt Optimus Primes' old saying or we will destroy ourselves. One day a robot will develop thought and ask "Why am I here?" now we can pull a Quarren and shut it off so we don't have to face the implication that we are a slave owner or we can tell it "I ask myself that too." and then try to integrate it with society as if it were a person and not a machine and therefore freed from slavery thanks to it's evolution. Treat a newly sentient machine like a child and not as if it will automatically think ill of of for building it to do stuff we couldn't and once it is ready let it choose it's own lot in life.

16:02 love the black adder reference oxhorn.

Started watching you last night and after 2 videos I'm hooked XD keep it up

Could you one day do a video on The Survivalist from Fallout: New Vegas: Honest Hearts?

was it just me who didn't find anything more fucked-up in the entire fallout lore, than these robobrains? really?

I smirked at the little bit of Blackadder reference there. :)

I tend to clear a location and extract the loot, but then watch the Oxhorn video to see what i overlooked about the place, as well as checking the wiki to make sure I am not leaving a bobblehead behind etc. There is always so much I miss about the back story, usually because I am not patient enough to properly read terminals. I missed that deathclaw xray too. I have Ada as a companion now. A missile launcher and gatling laser, combined with Mr Handy thruster and a hacking module makes her the most useful companion so far. Apart from constantly getting into my sighted line of fire like the rest of the companions do.

...Or the supermutant head was just something Bethesda put there, and the ghouls are supposed to be rotten bodies in a jar.

NOTIFICATION SQUAD VIDEO IDEA: can you do a history on the institute. And also a question do you know if sim settlements is coming to Xbox one.

Only just found your channel. Been watching all day! So professional and interesting

Can't get enough of that door at the start!

The super mutant head was in there simply because bethesda got one code mixed up. Inside that jar was supposed to be a rotted brain, but they goofed and accedently programmed the super mutants head to spawn in there

There was an deathclaw by me inthat container on 35:08

It's possible that the janitors were robobrians, not protectrons. That would explain the risk of rebellion by the robots

I've wanted do see someone cover this, so thanks!

31:17the best part

Wow this is...really..fucked up.

You don’t know how happy I was when I heard Oxhorn say that at 16:02

The facility is a interesting card to have on the field, could help balance the east coast factions, give the Minutemen some fangs you know.

Of all the horrid stories in the Fallout Universe, this is the most heartwarming :,) But on a serious note; The most shocking part is that they didn't kill the pople complaining about the ethics of this place!

It would've been so cool to have a robo-brain that still had it's memories from before the war

Maybe those other experiments, with the Deathclaw diagrams and Mutant heads and such, may have been post-war editions, maybe by the Robobrains or the Mechanist or something. The labs could be pretty useful after all.

yeah the FEV was created before the war their is a log in the citadel in 3 about the FEV virus being used to replace soldiers with infertile killing machines that would eventually die out i.e. super mutants

i aint gay, but i love you oxhorn 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Oxhorn/Comment Feed, Hello. Love this video, thank you for all your posts. @33:48 you noted that its weird that they have a super mutant in a jar (ragstead head, death claw xray, etc) from earlier. Could it that the Mechanist did all of this? They did unleash the RoboBrains after all, lock up the building, and use whatever power they had left for the security system? Anyways thank you again for the video!

You tell the story of fallout well keep up the great work, big fan for a long time

ox what's wrong with ur terminal textures

This type of stuff is always my favorite part of the lore and gameplay even of fallout games. Finding the top secret pre-war top secret facilities, lore, etc. Whether they're civilian, military, or civilisn/military joint operations.. Something about it just always seems so epic and cool. They always have the best terminal entries... Stuff like the comical amount of ridiculous blast doors at the entrance are a really nice touch.. And as I already mentioned, the lore. You always find such deep lore in these types of locations. I would really enjoy a LOT more, or at least a lot higher percentage of these types of locations in the next game. Just so cool. This type of stuff is what the fallout series was made for, and does better than any other.