
He may be on the top floor of the Bridge Tower from midnight to 6:00 a.m. Daily scheduleĭuring the day, Harkness will be outside Flak 'N Shrapnel's weapon store in the Rivet City marketplace.

As a result, he is very well liked by the Hangar Deck residents. He treats Hangar Deck citizens with the same regard as Upper Deck citizens. After this, he got a job at Rivet City as security chief.Īs Rivet City’s hard-nosed security chief, 35-year-old Harkness is a good guy and a good friend, despite his demeanor. After some searching he found Horace Pinkerton, a skilled surgeon that agreed to perform the facial construction surgery and memory swap utilizing memories of a combat veteran named Harkness.

He successfully escaped the Commonwealth, but was hunted by the Synth Retention Bureau, and had to get surgery to get a new face and voice, as well as having his memory erased, in order to thwart the Bureau and start a new life. "Self determination is NOT a malfunction," Harkness would say in a holotape before escaping. The synths that Harkness captured filled his head with ideas about self-determination and freedom, contributing to his decision to escape. The synths working at the Synth Retention Bureau are told that those who try to escape are simply malfunctioning, when in actuality their complex AI has allowed them to start thinking for themselves. Manufactured on 2242 and given the designation A3-21, Harkness worked for the Synth Retention Bureau in the Commonwealth before attempting to escape after sympathizing with the escaped synths he was tasked to capture. Harkness is a synthetic humanoid, or "Synth", and is the most advanced android ever created by The Institute, an advanced science organization in the Commonwealth, as of 2277.
