Quote Originally Posted by Mark Hall View Post
I think he just wants the Minutemen to die in a fire.
Kinda. I didn't actually finish the game, but I think I finished the Minutemen storyline, and Preston in the end was just always standing there by this creek. I don't exactly remember the geography, but it felt like he had this very precarious situation where he watched other people, but didn't actually merge in with others, and also didn't really have anything to do himself and had turned into a radiant quest automated vending machine.

So having a base and a glorious, if possibly stupid, death would have given a conclusion to his story.

By the way, in Red Faction 2 the main character first steals the bad guy's hat, then forces him into a missile silo at gunpoint, and finally kills him by launching the missile. There's no explanation of where the missile ends up, however.