Preston Garvey is a senior officer of the Commonwealth Minutemen , a volunteer defense militia operating in the Commonwealth in He is also available as a companion of the Sole Survivor.
Preston Garvey originally enlisted with the Minutemen under Colonel Hollis at the age of seventeen. Things began to change for the worse when settlements under the protection of the Minutemen grew complacent.
Freed from the greater concerns of the erstwhile dangers of the Commonwealth, settlements increasingly neglected their obligations to the collective in favor of petty self-interests. The Minutemen dispersed the Gunner lines and were welcomed by the citizens of Quincy while the Gunners temporarily retreated.
Hollis felt extreme anger at this betrayal. Clint sought to establish terms of surrender for Quincy and its defenders; these terms were summarily rejected by Hollis. While the subsequent events are not explicitly recorded in text, the outcome for the Minutemen is broadly established by dialogue with Preston and various other wastelanders: the Minutemen requested support, which did not arrive; the Gunners overwhelmed the defenders and murdered nearly all of the civilians; [7] Col.
Hollis, the linchpin of the long-dwindling Minutemen cause, died fighting. Consequently, Preston gathered the few remaining Quincy civilians and loyal members of the Minutemen and fled. Several of the refugees lost their lives at the hands of the Gunners before the group shook their pursuit at Jamaica Plain. Regrettably, as Preston testifies, Lexington was filled with feral ghouls; the hardships of the town gradually whittled the group's numbers down to just over ten.
