One of the "official" mods adds an automatic suit of power armor to the game. You can get ahold of it, at which point it joins you as a permanent companion without taking up your "proper" companion slot. It seems to have been an experiment by the Outcast Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout 3.

Thanks to the way power armor works in Fallout 4, the item that is the actual Sentinel NPC is just the frame. You can remove all of the armor pieces to repair/upgrade/customize them (although they don't seem to require repairing once they're on there), or put whole different ones on there, or whatever.

Or, as I have discovered, you can just... leave them off.

Now, I realize that this is just a mod, and it isn't reasonable to expect whoever made it to have updated every single NPC interaction in the game? But I'm still a little disappointed that no one reacts to the fact that my Sole Survivor is being followed everywhere she goes by a headless, empty suit of T-45 power armor.

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