McKay Family Dairy Farm

McKay Family Dairy Farm is a fully-functioning dairy farm in the Motor City Wasteland. In 2287, the farm is still operated by Mr. Handys who worked the farm before the War.

Background
The McKay Family Dairy Farm was once the pride of Douglas McKay. A family-owned company servicing lower Michigan for eight generations. To keep costs low in a competitive world, Douglas purchased a number of Mr. Handys to care for, milk, and birth the cows, as well as sweep the barns and deliver the milk. The farm was completely automated except for tasks the family themselves wished to participate in.

Unknown to the public however, Douglas's brother Bobby was a disturbed man. Bobby hated how the U.S. was treating its neighbor to the north. He had spent much time in Canada in his youth and had many friends across the river. Friends now living under martial law. He began contacting the Canadian Resistance and covertly made bombs for them from the manure on the farms. There was talk amongst the McKay family about Bobby being a Commie or a Canadian sympathizer. Douglas dismissed concerns about Bobby as rumors and discourage such talk, so it wouldn't reach outside ears and hurt the company's image as a wholesome family farm. Douglas argued how much Bobby loved the farm and his work, that he still delivered milk on his routes when the robots could've done it. Little did he know Bobby only did his routes as a cover for delivering explosives.

The McKay family died after the bombs fell, but the cows and robots survived. The Mr. Handys were programmed to carry out all tasks on the farm and so they did. They fed and milked the cows and delivered the milk. They birthed generation after generation to keep the farm going. When cows with two heads started to be born, the Mr. Handys recognized something was off but raised the calves all the same. A small settlement set up nearby after a group of people programmed the Mr. Handys to add them to their delivery routes. The daily delivery of fresh milk has helped the settlement thrive in a hostile world.

A note found by the Prisoner in Tecumseh points the way to the Canadian Resistance's bombmaker's secret workshop. A secret hatch hidden in a field on the dairy farm leads to a homemade bunker where Bobby McKay constructed explosives and a few goodies are left behind for the Prisoner to claim.

Trivia

 * The original inspiration for the farm was Greygarden. The location's backstory was inspired by Timothy McVeigh, the domestic terrorist who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. His brother was thought to be a possible accomplice and the brother's Michigan farm was heavily searched for bombmaking materials after the attack. The idea to use McVeigh came from Fallout 4's Gorski Cabin, which took many cues from Ted Kaczinsky, the Unabomber.