Bert Riggs

Doctor Bert Riggs is a scientist and lead developer for General Atomics International. He now lives as a robobrain denizen of Vault 118 in 2287.

Pre-War
Bert Riggs was a lead developer of the robobrain for General Atomics International and at some point before the Great War he married Julianna Riggs, heiress to the Riggs fortune. Although critical and harsh, she was very good with their finances and was able to take charge of situations, allowing Bert to focus on his research.

They were a wealthy family and one of the best connected in Boston. Sometime before 2077, Julianna met Ezra Parker, a business tycoon who wanted to build a vault inside his hotel. Bert and Julianna became the majority investors in the hotel vault, and while the vault was under construction they moved all of their belongings from their mansion into Vault 118.

Vault 118
Bert and Julianna were already at the vault when nuclear war occurred and were joined by Ezra and other VIPs at the vault. Bert used the vault's school room as his laboratory and continued to work on robobrains there. After some time and discussion with other dwellers, he decided that the best way to survive was to become robobrains themselves. Everyone agreed and all the guests became robobrains.

A few days prior to "Ezra's death," Julianna found something about the finances in the overseer's office. Although she tried to tell Bert he didn't listen, his head in his research. When Ezra found out, he had that section locked claiming it was dangerous.

Ezra's death
After Ezra's death, Bert noticed some changes in his wife. Where previously she was harsh, she was now kind and nice to him. She also started forgetting the names of their cats and said she was getting ill all the time.

When he meets the Sole Survivor, Bert doesn't want to admit to the thoughts he has that it was actually his wife that was murdered. With some persuasion Bert can admit to his wife's death and inform the Sole Survivor that this person was not his wife, and after some investigation this can be discovered to be true. Ezra had taken Julianna's identity after he killed her in a discussion over embezzlement. The argument was started because Ezra wanted to squeeze a little more money out of the heiress, claiming that he needed more to pay for repairs on the hotel.

Appearances
Bert Riggs appears only in the Fallout 4 add-on Far Harbor.