Goddard

 is the leader of a group of scientists in the Boulder Dome in 2253.

His main priority is to attend to the 'dying' ZAX supercomputer, located in the bottom of the Dome. When he's not worrying about ZAX, he still has lots of repairs to keep him busy. Under a great deal of stress, no one is sure how long he will be able to continue his work in the Dome.

Background
In 2247, Goddard was formerly an NCR scientist, and an advisor to President Tandi. However, since people found him bothersome, Tandi assigned him to studying old-world power and establishing reactors in the eastern territories ( see: Southwestern Commonwealth). The job required him to be accompanied by a military escort, for his safety. When he returned from exploring, he was again tasked with searching the south-west region of the U.S. for more information about functioning pre-War power facilities by Victor Presper. He sent back reports of promising locations he discovered during the voyages.

Presper was particulary interested in his report of the Boulder Dome, so he sent a team of soldiers to investigate it's interior. Later, Presper inhabits the Dome with teams of scientists from NCR. Further on, in 2250, Goddard meets another NCR scientist named Agnes at the Hoover Dam. Knowing they could not go back to NCR (conflicts, violence), the two went to the Boulder Dome by means of the trucker Eddie Galenski. Upon arrival, he realized that some of Presper's scientists were infected with the New Plague, and had quarantined themselves from him with Environmental Suits. He believes ZAX holds the key to creating an antigen for the virus, but with a lack of a real workforce, the Dome itself is barely under working order.

Agnes
She is one of the only other scientists he trusts. They don't have any sort of attraction to each other, but Agnes cares for him, and he confides in her about the idea of locking the Baggers out of the dome.

Interactions with the player character
Goddard never has real conversations with most anybody, the player included. His objective is to keep the Boulder Dome in working order, and he finds talking is a waste when there are repairs to be made. He was to be the initiator of most of the repair/scavenging quests associated with Boulder.

Otherwise, his interactions are outlined in a few dialogue pieces, see: Goddard dialogue pieces.

Appearances
did not appear nor was mentioned in any published games, but was going to appear in Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle Studios.