https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Preston_(clergyman)

Now If you will excuse me I need to recover from the Lecture from heck for forgetting who Mr Garvey was.

The name puns continue forever at Bethesda don't they?

given the conversation I just had. . . Im seriously hopping that was just a random choice of names because they were thinking it sounded right.

Possibly, possibly not.

Owyn Lyons

Augustus Autumn

Arthur Maxson

were all very fitting for thier character, and not random however.

That's a scary thought. It means the person responsible for approving names has some kind of alien ears that actually think that name sounds good.

I thought John Henry Eden worked really well as a name too. Eden fitting his vision of the Wasteland, with John Henry working well with the reveal that he's actually a machine. It also plays off well with Colonel Autumn, because even if he "beats" Eden, he still loses everything that was his life (the Enclave) in a similar way that John Henry won at the cost of his life.

I was surprised to find out that Marcus Garvey was still a Hot button issue with some African Americans though, considering he died in 1940.

Well Obsidian really missed the boat with New Vegas then when they could have had Naughtius Maximus in the Legion.

Theres a mod for that.. .. .. ..

unfortunatly we almost need to make that rule 35. if it exists theres a mod for it.

it was probably a name given to the character by the character (much like Abraham Washington)

Abraham Washington didn't give himself that name, that's the name he was born with.

So I guess Preston Garvey is also pro-Railroad/Android Freedom.

If that's the case, given his appearance in the concept art, it seems the Institute is going to be evil while he and the BoS are good. Because who doesn't love seeing scientists demonized?

Though he might just be a companion. I REALLY hope that's the case. Especially because I want the android stuff as far removed from the main quest as possible.

I'm not so sure. There seems to be a scene with the VM (vault man) shooting at BoS iniate in a vertabird.

Yeah, in the killing montage he seems to kill a handful of Brotherhood members. At least two. I just figured that was to add some variety to enemy types without giving away any new factions.

Its amusing how people just stopped at the intro text for each and did not do any deeper digging. . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism

other notable members Besides Mr Garvey include

Winner of the Lennin Peace Prize Kwame Nkruma (given his record you kind of wonder if he was only there to make the rest of the members look good because . . .)

Emperor / Messiah /God incarnate Haile Selassie

Dictator for life Ahmed Sekou Toure

and Muammar Gaddafi.

one of the people he corresponded with (and incidentally supported indirectly by promoting the book White America) was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnest_Sevier_Cox

If nothing else it showes just how screwed up the world is.

I'm hoping it'll be like New Vegas, where even though the Legion looks and sounds evil, there is a method too their madness... even if I completely disagree with said method. I've got this feeling that the Institute will be similar, and I'm hoping we'll be able to work with them considering the E3 promo shows us killing Brotherhood Initiates. I'm also hoping that there will be a third way... wipe both sides out

I speculate that if he does become a companion, two things might happen:

1. He disbands the Minute Men because he feels guilty for getting 15 people killed in a month
2. He turns over leadership too the Sole Survivor because he feels guilty for getting 15 people killed in a month and because the Sole Survivor did something that he couldn't do

Nothing says Preston is the leader of the Mintuemen, its unlikely has has the power to do either.

This^^^ apart from 2-3 bits of concept art and his ridiculous stats in Fallout shelter, we really don't have any clue that hes another Lions or Even Boon. he may just be there to be the Sunny Smiles or Moira of Fallout 4.

I hope Beth will don't do a good-evil story like FO3. But if I see the FO3 DLCs and Skyrim... I think Beth is over with good vs evil.