Piper Wright is a resident of Diamond City as well as the owner, publisher, and sole journalist of the Publick Occurrences newspaper in the Commonwealth in Fallout 4. She is a potential companion of the Sole Survivor.
Born in a settlement on the outskirts of the Commonwealth with Nat and their father, a member of the local militia, Piper's "career" in journalism started when her father was found dead under suspicious circumstances, and she investigated to learn that he had discovered that raiders were plotting to sack the town.
His superior in the militia, Captain Mayburn , was in league with them and arranged to leave the main gate open and unguarded one night in exchange for a cut of the loot; when Piper's father caught onto his scheme, the captain murdered him to prevent word of the plot from getting out. The conspicuously public accusation got the attention of the town's mayor, who accepted Piper's evidence.
Outraged by his dereliction of duty, the settlers exiled Mayburn, and when the raiders eventually showed up expecting the gate to be wide open, they instead encountered prepared defenses by alerted townsfolk and were driven away.
With both of their parents gone and Nat too young to work, Piper relied mainly on kindness and charity to survive. Eventually, the sisters were able to save enough money to relocate to Diamond City by paying for passage on a caravan. Despite her noble intentions, her career was fraught with danger and intrigue from the outset. Shortly after founding her newspaper, an article she wrote exposing the efforts of a caravan cartel to drive up food prices made her the target of their retribution.
