Simon Barnaky

General Simon Barnaky is the commanding officer of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel from 2197 until 2198. He is one of the original rebellious young paladins who disagrees with the Brotherhood's code as he wants to bring technology to the outside world, just not to every wastelander. Barnaky is also the leader of the Brimstone Squad.

Human life
Simon Barnaky was a part of the minority within the Old Brotherhood that wanted change which included sharing tech and knowledge with outsiders and letting in wastelanders. He believed that the Brotherhood of Steel had much to offer humanity, no matter how primitive. The Whachutu of Peoria are a prime example. However Barnaky was bigoted towards mutants and believed they deserved nothing but scorn. When the Elders started to include mutants into the Brotherhood, Barnaky openly spoke out against it. He questioned the wisdom in such an act, voicing his belief that mutations would taint the Brotherhood and questioned if the Old Elders were right. He was not alone in this view. The Elders themselves didn’t even believe that mutants were truly the equal to pure blood humans, but they felt they could contribute in other ways.

General Simon Barnaky had a wife named Maria, he dedicated his life to her, vowing to cleanse the land of impure mutations and monsters to allow normal humans to thrive.

In 2198, Barnaky was taken prisoner by Gammorin's Army in St. Louis. This same convoy, with the captured general, was then intercepted by the Calculator's robots and Barnaky was taken to Scott City. There, after extensive torture and experimentation, General Barnaky's brain was then extracted and put into a robotic suit. The plan being that his knowledge about the Midwestern Brotherhood's internal and external workings would help facilitate many of the Calculator's objectives.

Brain bot form
Simon Barnaky, then as a humanoid brain bot, with a semi-lobotomized brain and robotic programming, Barnaky saw the power of the Calculator as his and humanity's last chance to bring a new order to the wastes that offers humanity a world of order and peace, a world free of war, free of mutants and chaos. The Brain bot form of Barnaky ignored the fact that the Calculator was corrupted and sought to exterminate all life, Barnaky knew only that his "pacification protocol" was able to bring death to mutant abominations. He successfully retained a part of his consciousness along with new programming without conflict between them. After that, he had become the Calculator's right-hand, a protector and advisor, an enemy and betrayer to his old comrades, whom he believed to be corrupted by genetic mutation and he tried to use his former position as a leader of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel to serve the Calculator's army to effectively erase defensive measure of the Midwestern Brotherhood.

Faced with Simon Barnaky being missing in action, the rank and position of General/commanding officer of the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel was given by the elders to Dekker. While Simon Barnaky's body and the fact of his brain's absence was discovered in Scott City, the truth about his alliance with the Calculator was only revealed in Vault 0, where the Warrior encountered Brain Bot Barnaky guarding the Calculator. Barnaky was very confident in his master's goals, believing the Calculator's way to be the best for the wasteland.

Fate
There are three possible ways the general's story could end, depending on how the Warrior chooses to deal with him:
 * He could come back to his senses after the Warrior reminds him of his wife using his locket or his holotape. In this case Barnaky would become ashamed of his betrayal, his new form and the prospect of human extermination. After this, the Warrior could put Barnaky's brain into the Calculator, which would then take on a pro-Prime human mentality and begin to restore mankind to its prior glory at the cost of all mutated beings and mariposa super mutants being hunted down and chased back to the West Coast.
 * He could be finally killed while fighting the Warrior.
 * His fate if the Warrior saved him then decided to sacrifice himself to become one with the Calculator is not known, though it could be assumed he becomes the guardian of the Warrior/Calculator, or is executed by the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel.

Appearances
Simon Barnaky appears only in Fallout Tactics.

Behind the scenes

 * Barnaky's first name is mentioned only in his holodisk letter to his wife, the text of which is not available in the game itself, but can be found in mission files.
 * General Barnaky is the name of the general whose house is broken into by Bill Murray and Harold Ramis in Stripes.
 * General Barnaky is voiced by the ever-popular R. Lee Ermey, who is famous for his numerous roles as military veterans, foremost among them as Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann from Full Metal Jacket.

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