Hank Madigan

Hank Madigan was a member of the Responders, a lieutenant of the Fire Breathers, and a former member of the Brotherhood of Steel.
==Background==
After the Great War, Madigan initially enrolled with Taggerdy's Thunder and became a member of the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel. He remained with the organization for years, afterward joining the Responders. 
Together with Melody, Madigan formed the Fire Breathers, an elite fighting unit of the Responders dedicated to fighting in the Ash Heap and preventing the Scorched from taking over. As a member of the Fire Breathers, Madigan continued to run independent operations over the mountains, which involved making a run at the AMS corporate headquarters in Watoga. He was responsible for the discovery that depleted ultracite laced munitions could inflict heavy damage against the Scorched, after he recovered research from Atomic Mining Services.Message from Hank Madigan During this mission to AMS, Madigan also found leads for the Excavator power armor developed by the Garrahan Mining Company.Charleston Fire Department terminal entries; Fire Breathers master terminal, Excavator ArmorMadigan scouting report - Garrahan
After the fall of the Brotherhood, Madigan ventured beyond the mountains into the Mire and made contact with the Free States, after being caught at Raleigh Clay's bunker attempting to "figure out" one of the scorchbeast lures which had been set up there. When he learned that the device was one that could lure and disorient a scorchbeast long enough for a team of militants to eliminate it, he asked for proof, but Raleigh Clay told him that they were not willing to just share their discoveries with an ex-Brotherhood member and that he had some serious trust to earn.Madigan encounter He was also told that the device would already be completed if not for the raiders of the Savage Divide.
In late 2096, determined to earn the trust of Clay and to save Appalachia from the Scorched Plague, Madigan attempted to broker peace between the Responders and the raiders at the Top of the World in order to install the scorchbeast lure but was instead imprisoned in a cage by the Cutthroats leader David Thorpe. Thorpe hoped to extort the Responders and Free States in exchange for the Scorched Detection System uplink that Madigan was carrying. Although Madigan gave them information, the Cutthroats left Madigan to starve to death in the cage, although it is ambiguous if it was intentional as there are many indicators that the Cutthroats had been taken out by the Scorched Plague. The Cutthroats also destroyed Madigan's uplink and kept it in a cache in the basement of the Pleasant Valley Ski Resort.
His corpse remains in the steel cage near Rose who mentions she was not present when Madigan died.
==Inventory==
==Related holotapes==
* Message from Hank Madigan
* Madigan scouting report - Garrahan
* Madigan encounter
* Welcome to the Fire Breathers
* Fire Breathers final exam briefing
==Notes==
The name internally used by the game for this corpse incorrectly duplicates the name of Darion Jones.
==Appearances==
Hank Madigan appears only .
==Behind the scenes==
In an unused holotape, Hank Madigan is mentioned as part of Marine Recon. Maria Chavez: ""Hank Madigan: ""Melody Larkin: ""Hank Madigan: ""Maria Chavez: ""Hank Madigan: " "Maria Chavez: ""Hank Madigan: ""Melody Larkin: ""Maria Chavez: ""Hank Madigan: " "Melody Larkin: ""Hank Madigan: ""Melody Larkin: ""(Maria Chavez, Hank Madigan and Melody Larkin's dialogue)
==References==
Category:Fallout 76 human characters
Category:Fire Breather characters
Category:Fallout 76 Brotherhood of Steel characters
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