USS Germination

The USS Germination is a beached pre-War waste freighter that has been repurposed into a farm

Background
Some time in the Winter, prior to the events of Winter of Atom, the USS Germination ran aground in the ruined Boston Harbor. In the years since the Great War, the ship's supply of waste has since decomposed into a rich compost, which had allowed a small conclave of settlers to grow produce and establish a home there, however in recent years the farm has begun failing, and once ran aground in the ruins of Boston, the ship was immediately sieged by Super Mutants, raiders, and others who wished to steal the settlement's rich produce due in-part to the Commonwealth's bitter nuclear winter spoiling most other crops in the area.

In need of help, the Last Son of Atom elected to lend his aid and met with the Settlement's leader, a geneticist named Dr. Yarrow. The Last Son gifted Dr. Yarrow Flesh Fruit fungus, a strange purple seed that would eventually blossom into fruit that would grow in the harshest of situations, so long as it was planted inside of a frozen human corpse. As a token of thanks, Dr. Yarrow aided the Last Son with genetic experiments, creating some of the Church of Atom's most dangerous beasts, such as the Gigapede.

The corpse requirement of the USS Germination's new food source lead Yarrow and the settlers to begin hunting and kidnapping stray scavengers who strayed near the Germination, in order to kill them and use their bodies as fertilizer. Their efforts led to the Germination holding the largest food stores in the Commonwealth at the time, however the settlers on board becaome violent and deranged due to their consumption of the Flesh Fruit, physically distorting and twisting in impossible ways. The only people aboard the USS Germination who had not eaten the fruit, including Dr. Yarrow, were barricaded in a storage closet to avoid being cannibalised by their former friends, and Dr. Yarrow worked tirelessly to produce a cure to the affliction, regretting that he accepted the Last Son's help to begin with.

Appearances
The USS Germination appears only