Brandon McDaniel

Brandon McDaniel was an electrical engineer at the Robotics Technology Facility RB-2851 prior to the Great War.

Background
Believing that it would be exciting to sign up and work for the robotics program, Brandon was quite deflated once he learned about his new assignment, which was, as he put it, "babysitting a bunch of generators." He debated quitting because of how demoralizing the job was. Citing his four years of electrical engineering school and his ability to strip a Mister Handy or Protectron down to its base parts in under two hours, he considered his new post a complete waste of time.

One day after talking to Sharpley during a smoke break, he thought of a way to turn his isolation into an advantage. He had a friend in the civilian service who worked for an unspecified vending company, and Brandon reckoned that he could make a few bucks if he stuck one of his friend's cigarette machines in his station, correctly reasoning that it would save everyone a trip all the way to the surface if they were out of smokes. It also gave Brandon an excuse to say hello to any of the ladies that happened to wander in to purchase some.

Although he was able to carefully sneak a machine into his substation a coworker – Banks at Substation B – began complaining about the smoke coming from his station. At first, Brandon thought he was just jealous that all of the ladies had been hanging around him at the new, unofficial smoking lounge. However, this was just a ploy, as Banks told Brandon that he was going to "lodge a formal complaint with Delano" if he didn't "make him happy." In the face of such extortion, he contemplated paying him off so as to avoid punishment.

Brandon then had a brilliant turn of fortune, by getting official approval to keep the cigarette machine in his substation without any punishment whatsoever. This, however, was due to him bribing General Rawlings with a few cartons himself.

Appearances
Brandon McDaniel is mentioned only in the Fallout 4 add-on Automatron.