Johnny Moreno

Johnny Moreno was a knight with the Appalachia Brotherhood of Steel before 2102.

Background
Before the Great War, Corporal Johnny Moreno served in Taggerdy's Thunder, an elite United States Army Ranger unit, as the unit's communications specialist. After the bombs dropped, he continued to follow the unit's leader, Elizabeth Taggerdy. Moreno was responsible for monitoring communications, looking for survivors of any kind, especially military ones. He happened upon Roger Maxson, broadcasting to Appalachia via satellite and looking for anyone alive in the region. This chance encounter led to the foundation of the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel. Moreno would eventually attain the Brotherhood rank of knight.

Within the Brotherhood, Moreno remained as a communications specialist, participating in field recovery expeditions. On one of these expeditions, he found Tex Rogers, who volunteered for the Thunder.

Moreno was involved in the fortification of and restoration of power at Grafton Dam, with assistance from Grant McNamara. He was then assigned as field commander of the outpost at the dam, tasked with holding the passages through the Savage Divide to the Mire and ensuring a link with Harpers Ferry. Although competent, many of the soldiers serving under his command had doubts about his overall capability as a leader. When the Grafton outpost was mothballed, many were relieved.

After the emergence of scorchbeasts, Moreno and the rest of the Appalachian Brotherhood made it their mission to eliminate them, culminating in Operation Touchdown in early 2095, a mission to destroy what was thought to be their main nest in the glassed cavern. Moreno was tasked with maintaining a connection to Fort Defiance, relaying intel as the team reached the coordinates provided by Grant McNamara's tracking device. The transponders he left behind tell the story of how the operation tracked down the scorchbeasts to the glassed cavern. However, although the mission resulted in the deaths of many scorchbeasts, every member of the team, including Moreno, was killed in the process in February 2095.

Appearances
Johnny Moreno appears only in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes
Voice lines exist in the game's files for a cut holotape recorded by Moreno, intended to be placed at Grafton Dam. The holotape was, in-universe, recorded sometime after the adoption of the Brotherhood ranks, as Moreno accidentally refers to Ted Wilson as "Sarge" before correcting himself. Moreno goes on to describe a meeting with a representative of the Responders, where he outlined the mission of the team at Grafton Dam. The holotape is recorded as a message to a romantic interest of Moreno - specifically, a female member of Taggerdy's Thunder. Because of Esposito's dismissal of Moreno's behavior in the note Esposito diary - page 12, it is likely that this romantic interest was intended to be Hannah De Silva.