I couldn't just run in and grab it? Don't think I'm anyway near that point in the game. I've come across a few Synths (found an oldfolks home with a bunch of good items and a dozen synths burst in and came after me) and cleared out a little outpost through a sewer across from a little town in on it which I took over and is now a settlement of mine. Other than that it's been mostly whispers of the Institute among npc's.
