马克西姆斯(电视剧)

	關於辐射战略版角色，參見Maximus (Fallout Tactics)。

马克西姆斯（英文名：Knight Maximus）是鋼鐵兄弟會的成员在辐射电视剧 。他是三个主要主角之一，另外两个是露西和The Ghoul。他的出生名字是未知的，因为他的名字马克西姆斯是由兄弟会给他的。^[1]

马克西姆斯是一个在地面上长大的新兵，但和露西一样，他也是在一个与世隔绝的"家庭"中长大的: 钢铁兄弟会。然而，与露西不同的是，他有一种愤世嫉俗的自我保护意识，并不总是表现得很体面。

一开始，马克西姆斯最近被提升到了扈从。在2296年间，马克西姆斯被兄弟会派去做一个作为骑士的可牺牲的助手。他的任务带领他走向一个神秘的研究员Siggi Wilzig的神器，导致他的道路与露西和尸鬼的道路相撞。^[2]

背景[]

作为新加州共和国的前公民，这个后来成为马克西姆斯的男孩不幸生活在沙蔭市。共和国的首都在第二次胡佛大坝之战后被核武器摧毁。虽然他在弹坑的边缘，但他在牛奶自动售货机中幸存下来。离开他的藏身之处后，他看到了仍在燃烧的弹坑和其他NCR公民烧焦的尸体，然后与一个身穿动力装甲的武装兄弟会骑士面对面。那段记忆深深地印在他的脑海里，决定了他一生的轨迹。^[3][4]

在核攻击中成为孤儿的男孩被兄弟会带到了他们位于新加州的基地和训练营。他有了一个新名字，马克西姆斯，还有食物、住所、教育，以及在兄弟会中晋升的机会。^[5]从一开始，他就是一个局外人，被兄弟会收留的另一个孩子Thaddeus为欺凌目标。这不是针对个人的，而是为了把塞迪斯受到的辱骂转移到一个更有吸引力的新目标上。这招奏效了，所以马克西姆斯成了失败者。^[6]他被大多数有抱负的人避开，只和一个人成为了亲密的朋友: Aspirant Dane.^[7]

虽然他的体格和耐力令人印象深刻，使他能够承受定期的殴打，甚至回击恶霸，但他在更多的脑力科目上挣扎。特别是，科技和科学科目被证明是具有挑战性的，这使他受到了教授这些科目的学士的愤怒。^[8]尽管如此，他还是坚持了下来，希望有一天能够伤害那些伤害他的人，就像那些摧毁沙蔭市的人一样。^[5]兄弟会赢得了他的忠诚，马克西姆斯对兄弟会的使命和价值观有了坚定的信念，这还没有被荒原的现实和兄弟会的运作方式所动摇。^[7]他真诚地相信"骑士的职责[是]改善这个堕落的世界"。^[9]然而，他缺乏生活经验，这使他容易做出草率的决定和错误，其中一些是非常严重的。^[10]

由于他的童年创伤和在兄弟会的艰苦生活，这些差距使他不习惯物质享受，几乎没有意识到即使在后启示录时代，人类仍然可以享受高质量的生活。^[11]他经历中最大的差距与性有关。兄弟会没有性教育课程，所以马克西姆斯并不完全熟悉性交、射精或手淫的概念。实际上他对性有些反感，他相信或者为自己找借口说兄弟会的骑士应该是独身的。^{[12][10][13] [3][11][14][4]}

辐射电视剧[]

The End[]

Maximus is beaten up by his peers at the training camp, seemingly for no other reason but bullying. Once the group leaves, Dane arrives to check on Maximus' condition.

One day, Dane is promoted to squire instead of Maximus, which frustrates Maximus. Dane's foot is maimed while getting out of bed, causing suspicion to fall upon Maximus.

Maximus is escorted into a repurposed aircraft by Petty Officer Shortsight, where he is to be interrogated by Elder Cleric Quintus and a Brotherhood knight who intimidates Maximus to speak truthfully. When Quintus questions Maximus why he joined the Brotherhood of Steel, Maximus says, "To hurt the people who hurt me." Quintus informs Maximus that his fellow aspirants have accused him of orchestrating Dane's maiming. Maximus denies it, but Quintus asks him if he has the ambition to advance in the Brotherhood and why he would not desire such an outcome on a rival. Maximus admits that he did want Dane to be injured so he could take their spot, but he maintains that he did not do it.

Quintus lectures Maximus that violence against a fellow brother is a sign of weakness and asks Maximus if he is weak. Maximus replies that he doesn't want to be. When given a chance to give any statements in his defense, and feeling that his defense may not be enough to be found innocent, Maximus thanks the Brotherhood for his guidance, giving him a home and a place in the world. Maximus looks at Quintus and says: "If I can help the Brotherhood make it [the world] better... Eden or whatever... even if it means giving my own life... I'll do it. And I'd be grateful to the Brotherhood for giving my life meaning." Impressed by Maximus' character, Quintus believes his defense, clearing him of these charges, and promotes him to be Knight Titus' squire in Dane's place.

Afterward, Maximus checks on Dane at the medical tent. Dane reassures Maximus that their circumstances aren't so bad. When Maximus asks if they suspect anyone of causing their injury, Dane replies they've narrowed it down to any of their bullying peers. Dane informed Maximus that they knew he took their spot, and they both confirmed that they'd both been questioned about whether there was any credibility to the rumor that Maximus was the perpetrator of Dane's maiming. Dane, however, tells Maximus that they told their interrogators that they believed that Maximus wouldn't hurt a fly.

Maximus and Knight Titus are assigned the mission of searching for Siggi Wilzig, a member of the Enclave on the lam, who also has an object that can change the balance of power in their nation.

The Target[]

Maximus soon learns that Knight Titus is callous and a bully since he would order Maximus to perform demeaning work, such as cleaning his codpiece. While en route to their ordered destination of Filly, Titus spontaneously orders the vertibird they were flying in to drop them off midflight because he is bored and wants to kill something. Despite straying from their objective, Titus and Maximus stumble onto one of Wilzig's camps near a yao guai's cave. Despite Titus being better equipped to handle a Yao Guai, Titus orders Maximus to delve deeper into the Yao Guai's den ahead of him, only for the Yao Guai to sneak behind Titus and attack. Maximus was frozen in shock as Knight Titus was overwhelmed by the Yao Guai, and after being disarmed by the Yao Guai, Titus fled the cave in terror until he tripped and smashed his head on a rock. The Yao Guai proceeded to maul Titus until Maximus composed himself and shot the Yao Guai dead.

Titus orders Maximus to remove his helmet, then ruthlessly insults and blames him for his sustained damages. Titus reveals he is contemptuous of the Brotherhood of Steel's purpose and his superiors; he complains of being sent to face the dangers of the wasteland for a "toaster oven." Titus orders Maximus to fetch him a stimpak and threatens Maximus with a torturous death for failing his duties as a squire. Maximus judges Titus antithetical to the Brotherhood's purpose of bettering their fallen world and deems him unworthy of his power armor. Thus, Maximus withholds the stimpak from Titus. Although Titus threatens Maximus by saying that the Brotherhood would kill him, Maximus asserts he won't be punished if he returns with the target. Maximus then watches Titus die of his wounds.

Maximus takes Titus' power armor and assumes his identity. While playing with the power armor and testing its capabilities, Maximus interrupts a scuffle between a chicken collector and a snake oil salesman. Maximus used the strength of his power armor to subdue the attacking chicken collector, while the snake oil salesman smugly escaped. Maximus then learned that the reason the chicken collector was attacking the snake oil salesman was because he was having sex with the chicken collector's chickens. Maximus was perturbed by such strange behavior but acted as if the matter was resolved satisfactorily.

When Maximus arrives at Filly, he finds that The Ghoul has shot up the town to obtain the bounty on Wilzig and that Lucy MacLean has stood up to The Ghoul to protect Wilzig. Maximus intercedes to shield Lucy from being shot by The Ghoul and tells Lucy that Wilzig is important to him and that he will cover their escape by keeping The Ghoul busy. Maximus' power armor could throw The Ghoul around the town for a while, but The Ghoul used the heavy weight of the armor and the fragility of the town's structure to outmaneuver Maximus. Maximus gets his foot stuck on a fragile platform, immobilizing him. The Ghoul mocks Maximus' inexperience with piloting the power armor and advises him to read its manual before going around him and using his knife to break some of the armor's components. This causes his power armor to malfunction, and although he escapes his immobility by attempting flight, Maximus' malfunctioning suit causes him to fly clumsily. Coupled by The Ghoul using a towing cable to rope Maximus and disrupt his flight pattern, Maximus loses control; he flies and crash-lands somewhere out of the town. Nevertheless, his distraction allowed Lucy to escape town with Wilzig.

The Head[]

After the confrontation with The Ghoul, Maximus's power armor is damaged. He tows his power armor to a nearby stand. As he's checking its condition (finding a damaged component while doing so), Petty Officer Shortsight talks over the radio, attempting to check up on Knight Titus' condition after having missed a check-in. Maximus deepens his voice and pretends to be Knight Titus. He lies to the Brotherhood by telling them that the squire assigned to him (Maximus) had died while in a confrontation with an "abomination"; however, his plan goes wrong as the other party suggests sending a replacement squire. Maximus tries to convince them not to send one, as this would blow his cover. After failing to convince the Brotherhood not to deliver a replacement squire, he intentionally destroys the power armor's radio to cut off communications with the Brotherhood. Afterward, Maximus goes to a local repair stand to have the aforementioned damaged component repaired. Jamila mentions he is one cap short, which he compensates for by selling his tooth.

As he checks in on his power armor, he discovers a group of bandits attempting to take it apart. He attempts to defend his property; however, he is initially overwhelmed by their superior numbers and beaten down. Maximus quickly recovers, grabs iron tongs and a toilet seat for melee weapons, and confronts the bandits again. He manages to knock two of them out, and is nearly defeated when he is pinned to his power armor by the remaining two and beaten; however, he manages to activate the power armor's right arm, crushing one of the bandits' heads with it. The other bandit is scared away by the brutal display.

As he breathes a sigh of relief, a Brotherhood vertibird flies over the town, delivering Thaddeus as the replacement for Maximus as a squire. Before his replacement squire can notice, Maximus returns to his power armor and hurriedly enters it to hide his identity. Initially, Maximus contemplated killing Thaddeus, but ultimately decided to use him as a squire and bully him for his amusement. Repeating his former knight's actions, he orders Thaddeus to clean his power armor's codpiece. Thaddeus relays information about the fact that they "are not the only ones looking for the target," and is told by the Brotherhood to kill anybody that stands in their way.

After leaving Filly, Maximus continues to demean Thaddeus, ordering him to climb a dead tree and look for apples, even though there are obviously none. Thaddeus falls to the ground, much to Maximus's amusement. Thaddeus suggests repairing the power armor's radio to contact the Brotherhood for reinforcements, to which Maximus gets mad and tells him that he will retrieve the target by himself. Afterward, they continue searching for the target. Maximus tells Thaddeus about his encounter with The Ghoul. Thaddeus approves of his knight's idea to let The Ghoul live since all wastelanders carry radiation, which they can trace. Maximus takes credit for this idea, even though he had never considered it.

While following The Ghoul's trail, they stumble upon the rest of Wilzig's headless body. They mistakenly credit the decapitation to be The Ghoul's doing. Thaddeus suggests retrieving the rest of the body, but Maximus thinks the body is useless to them, as whatever was valuable about Wilzing must have been in his head. On a short break while on their journey, Thaddeus attempts to refill the power armor's water bag, to which Maximus gets startled and pushes him away. After realizing Thaddeus was trying to fulfill his duties as a squire, he sits down and allows him to refill it. The two of them converse, with Maximus asking him about his thoughts on Knight Titus' apparently dead squire (himself). Thaddeus starts off by talking positively about him, but Maximus orders him to say something negative about him. He discovers that Thaddeus had only been bullying him because he had been bullied before Maximus' arrival and wanted to redirect the bullying on him instead, making him popular. Thaddeus comments that he wished Maximus had lived long enough to redirect the bullying on someone else himself. Maximus begins to empathize with Thaddeus.

Afterward, they continued following the tracks of The Ghoul, leading them to Hollywood Boulevard, which had been flooded with radiated water and inhabited by a gulper. Maximus rebuked Thaddeus for leading them to danger but ordered him to run to safety while he personally dealt with the Gulper. While attempting to take the creature down, Maximus runs out of ammo from his pistol and prepares to fight in close-quarter combat; Thaddeus, however, aids him and shoots at the Gulper with a rifle. However, this alerts the gulper to Thaddeus' location, and he is chased down and dragged by the beast. The gulper nearly swallows Thaddeus, but Maximus comes to aid Thaddeus by grabbing him and pulling him out of the beast's mouth from the opposite side. The tug of war causes the gulper to vomit and die. While recovering from the situation, they find the target (Wilzig's head) to be among the things the gulper vomited and being licked by CX404, who had been searching for Wilzig as well. They celebrate at the sight of this and prepare to return the head to the Brotherhood.

The Past[]

Maximus and Thaddeus are camping for the night at an abandoned rail station. The two banter and reminisce about their epic battle with the gulper. Thaddeus gets the idea for Knight Titus to brand him, unaware that the man in the power armor is actually Maximus. Maximus hesitates at first, but eventually agrees to do it reluctantly after some coaxing from Thaddeus. After branding him, Maximus reveals his identity and opens the faceplate of his power armor, revealing himself. Thaddeus is shocked, but Maximus tries calming him down by proposing they can still be friends. However, he needs Thaddeus to corroborate a made-up story that will help Maximus avoid punishment from the Brotherhood. Thaddeus is reluctant to participate in his scheme, fearing that the Brotherhood will find out Maximus killed his knight and also get him in trouble. Maximus reacts to this with immense disappointment and stands up, telling Thaddeus that he knew "he should not have trusted him"; afterward, he attempts to attack Thaddeus. Maximus can crush Thaddeus' foot, but he manages to avoid being killed due to Thaddeus' mobility advantage compared to his bulky power armor. In the ensuing fight, Thaddeus uses his master key to turn off Maximus' power armor and steals its fusion core, leaving Maximus trapped in the power armor. Thaddeus takes the head and departs, leaving Maximus to be trapped in his armor and die alone.

The next morning, Maximus, still trapped, is swarmed by radroaches. Frightened, he watches as the radroaches nearly eat through his power armor. He survives this encounter after the radroaches are shot down by Lucy MacLean, who opens up his faceplate and recognizes Maximus as the knight back in Filly. Maximus begs her to open his power armor and let him out, telling her someone had stolen his fusion core, but Lucy hesitates to free him. She asks if he remembers the man she left with, who Lucy describes as "with the glasses and the whole body." Maximus is aware of Wilzig as he is also searching for him. Lucy then informs him that she, too, is looking for his head. Lucy starts to vomit, which Maximus diagnoses as radiation sickness. He tells her that he has RadAway in his sleeve and that she can have it if she lets him out. Lucy is once again hesitant, telling Maximus that practically every person she has met on the surface has attempted to kill her. Maximus once again tells her that they would die if she did not let him out. When Lucy asks for his name, he lies to her by telling her that his name is Knight Titus. Lucy then opens up Maximus' power armor and frees him.

Lucy correctly identifies the model of Maximus' power armor as the T-60, which she recalled that the U.S. Army started using them after the Battle of Anchorage. She comments that she had only seen them in old engineering manuals and never in real life. Lucy suddenly faints and is caught by Maximus. She wakes up sometime after Maximus administers RadAway to her. He comments that he had never known that people lived in vaults. Lucy asks him what he thinks are in the vaults, if not people, to which Maximus replies with "monsters." Lucy responds by telling him that the rumor he heard is incorrect, and that the vaults are inhabited by "regular folk like her."

Maximus says that his "squire" stole "something vital" to the Brotherhood, and that he has to go after him. He attempts to depart, before Lucy stops him. She tells him she has a tracker that will lead them straight to the head, which she correctly assumes is what Maximus is looking for. She offers to travel together with him and to catch up to Thaddeus with her tracker, retrieve the head, and return it to the Brotherhood; in exchange, the Brotherhood will lend her "five or six" knights who will assist her in rescuing her father. Maximus is reluctant at first, but is reassured by Lucy that he can trust her. Lucy claims that vault dwellers like her are honorable and that she comes from a place where the worst anyone can do to someone is "forget to say thank you." Maximus comments that it sounds like a nice way to live, with Lucy reaffirming his sentiment. They both shake hands on their deal and depart together.

As they walk down a railroad line, Lucy asks Maximus to give her history of the last 200 years. She claims that she knows about the Great War, the bombs falling, and the 320 years of American history before then, yet she needs help with the last 200 years "after the bombs fell." Maximus responds that the bombs fell when he was a kid, to which Lucy asks if that's what they tell him in the Brotherhood. Maximus responds by saying that she is the one who grew up in a box underground. He also teases Lucy about her encounter with The Ghoul in Filly, asking if she really thought she would just "show up to some warlord, with no armor, no help, and expect him to just turn over a hostage to her," and asks her if she really thought that would work. Lucy responds by saying that she had the head, to which Maximus says that they don't even know what's in it, and Lucy concedes that he has a point. Lucy tells Maximus that she comes from a place where "the world is what you make of it," that it is not like the surface and that they are really naive down there; adding that up until she was six years old, she really thought the "the big light" on their farm in the vault really was the sun. She additionally adds that her mom used to take her out to play under the sunlight. She swears that she could actually feel the sun, but states that after her mom was gone, she realized that it was just her mom's presence that made it feel real. She then asks Maximus if they (presumably referring to surface dwellers) think the Earth is round or flat.

The duo encounters two weary-looking travelers opposite them while attempting to cross a rail bridge. With both groups distrustful of each other's intentions, Maximus asks Lucy to give him her gun, but she refuses. Lucy then offers a peaceful solution: both groups would simultaneously cross the bridge with their hands up. Midway through the crossing, however, the travelers shoot at them. Maximus reflexively grabs Lucy's gun from her gun holster and shoots both of them dead. However, he was shot and wounded in his left arm when he returned fire. After inspecting the travelers' corpses, Maximus reveals their attackers are members of the Fiends. Lucy asks him what a Fiend is, and Maximus tells her they are cannibals.

The two of them eventually arrive at Shady Sands. Lucy, puzzled, looks at the town's welcome sign. Maximus asks her what she is confused by. Lucy questions the sign's content, asking Maximus for confirmation on whether it is real. Confused, Maximus asks her if she had never heard of the New California Republic, to which Lucy, even more confused, asks if 34,000 people really lived in the city after the War. Maximus confirms it and tells her he used to be one of them. This seems to contradict the entire purpose of "Reclamation Day," which she realizes is meaningless since the entire purpose of her vault was to come up to the surface one day and restart civilization; that is what kept all of them going. After thinking about it, she sadly said it had already happened without them. In an attempt to make her feel better, Maximus replies that it didn't work out.

He then directs her to follow him, leading her to a massive crater in the city, from a nuclear blast. Maximus says that it's "always the same thing that happens," and that "everybody wants to save the world, they just disagree on how." After recalling childhood flashbacks, of which he hid in a milk vending machine during the bombing of Shady Sands and was found by a Brotherhood knight, Maximus tells her that they should keep moving. Lucy stops Maximus to check on his wound, only to discover he has lost a sizable amount of blood. Seeing the severity of it, she comments that they have to find supplies to treat his wound. She leads Maximus to Hawthorne Medical Laboratories, a pre-War subsidiary of Vault-Tec. Maximus hesitates to enter, citing his worries that anything could be in there. Lucy enters anyway without him, which prompts Maximus to follow her in. After entering, Maximus is confused as Lucy is nowhere to be seen. Above him, a series of blinking lights are leading him in a direction, which he follows; he attempts to get into medical supplies, but discovers that the handle of the door leading to it is just a decal. He attempts to get out, but finds out that the door behind him is locked, and in a panic, he screams for Lucy's help. The room is then filled with sleeping gas, and a trap door below him opens, leading him into Vault 4. Lucy and Maximus wake up inside an isolated room in the vault. When Maximus asks where they are, Lucy replies by telling him they are in a safe location and he'll be alright. When Maximus asks what the place is, Lucy tells him they are in "the best place in the world," a vault.

The Trap[]

Maximus is treated by the Vault 4 doctors, who tell him he needs a couple of days to recuperate before he's safe for travel. Although Maximus says he's fine so they can return to their quest, the doctors assert that he is in no condition to travel. Birdie, one of the Vault's leaders, insists Lucy and Maximus stay at the vault to recuperate and even have their surface foragers retrieve Maximus' power armor, which is being kept in the vault for safekeeping. Lucy and Maximus are taken to stay in a quarantine room for a few hours to ensure that they don't track in any contamination into the Vault. While in quarantine, Maximus mentions to Lucy that she smells good. Noticing that Maximus is attracted to her, Lucy invites Maximus to have sex with her. Having never received any sex education, Maximus grew up being afraid to use his genitals, as he came to believe that sexual responses like arousal and ejaculation were likened to a pimple popping and were considered weird. Lucy reassures him that such sexual responses are completely natural and even encouraged. Even so, Maximus shyly said the Brotherhood of Steel wasn't supposed to participate in such activities.

Later, Maximus and Lucy eat breakfast at the cafeteria. Maximus suspects the vault dwellers are trying to trap them and urges them to leave. Lucy trusts them since a lot of them are survivors of Shady Sands. She also reminds Maximus that he needs time to recuperate, so they can't leave. Maximus accuses Vault 4 of being a cult since they are all so happy and content, yet Lucy argues they are that way because the vault is a safe place and the people there look out for one another—especially since they all recognize that they need each other. Lucy holds Maximus' hand and likens the intimate bond of the vault dwellers to the one they have with each other. Lucy is later introduced to Overseer Benjamin, who only has one eye. When she notices that many of the vault dwellers have mutations, Lucy becomes suspicious of them, although Maximus seems more concerned by their happy behavior than their physical differences.

After discovering that a fusion core powers Vault 4, Maximus attempts to steal it to power his power armor. During his attempted theft, he is interrupted by Birdie, who says that he may be having trouble adjusting to a safe environment as he has been conditioned to think that the cutthroat lifestyle needed to survive the surface is the only norm. She gives Maximus access to his own room, Unit 428, and advises him to enjoy its comforts to aid in his transition. Maximus experiences the luxurious comforts of vault life for the first time and finds it pleasing. When Lucy visits him at his unit, he excitedly shows Lucy all the comforts he has indulged in and even awkwardly consents to her earlier invitation for sex. However, Lucy had just witnessed the vault dwellers perform a strange ritual and now thinks they are insane. Maximus downplays Lucy's fear and tries to find excuses to remain in Vault 4. Lucy tries to persuade Maximus that although life in Vault 4 may be more appealing than the horrors of the surface, she is certain that the vault dwellers are hiding something nefarious from them and will prove it to him.

The Radio[]

Maximus continues to enjoy the comforts of his unit until he sees Lucy being carried away by the vault dwellers for some offense she has committed. At that moment, Maximus resolves to rescue Lucy and leave the vault together. Maximus steals Vault 4's fusion core and uses it to fuel his power armor. After equipping his armor, Maximus interrupts Lucy's trial and demands that the vault dwellers release her. Maximus begins to manhandle the vault dwellers and destroy their property until Lucy stops him and explains that they were releasing her to the surface and were being helpful to do so. Surprised by this information, Maximus embarrassingly apologizes to the vault dwellers and advises them to check on the people he just attacked. Maximus leaves the vault with Lucy and his power armor, but Lucy stops them to mention that without Vault 4's fusion core, Vault 4 can only survive on auxiliary power for a few days. Lucy thinks they should return the fusion core, but Maximus is reluctant to do so because without it, his power armor would be useless, and he wouldn't be able to be a heroic knight or help Lucy rescue her father. Lucy argues that her father wouldn't want to be rescued at the expense of innocent people. Ultimately, Maximus and Lucy return the fusion core to Vault 4 together.

Lucy tells Maximus that he is the best stranger she has ever met and that he is a good person. After rescuing her father, she invites Maximus to live with her in Vault 33. Maximus discloses that he isn't really Knight Titus and reveals his real name to her. He explains that Knight Titus was a person he let die because he was threatening him and took his armor for himself afterward, and so admits he isn't the good person she believes him to be. Lucy admits that she threw acid at an innocent man's face during her investigation of Vault 4, and she has only been in the wasteland for two weeks. She chooses not to hold Maximus' past against him and invites him to live with her in her vault again. This time, Maximus happily accepts.

Maximus and Lucy eventually catch up to Thaddeus at the KPSS radio station in Hollywood Hills. As the two approach Thaddeus, Thaddeus shoots at them but misses every shot. Maximus and Lucy approach him peacefully with their hands up and explain they only want the head. Thaddeus steps on one of the traps littered throughout the radio station and gets a crossbow bolt lodged in his neck. Surprised that he hasn't died, Thaddeus takes out the crossbow bolt, only for his wound to be instantaneously healed. Maximus suspects that Thaddeus may be turning into a ghoul, causing Thaddeus distress as the Brotherhood of Steel will surely kill him now. With the Brotherhood already en route to him, Maximus instructs Thaddeus to give him the head, and he'll return to the Brotherhood to slow them down so Thaddeus can escape to safety. Thaddeus thanks Maximus and gives the two abrupt apologies and farewells. Maximus then gives Lucy Wilzig's head so she can use it to free her dad and go home, while he takes a disfigured, fake head from a nearby corpse and passes that one off as Wilzig's head to the Brotherhood. Although Lucy is reluctant to leave Maximus, they kiss and part ways. She tells Maximus to find her and to seek out Vault 33 someday.

The Beginning[]

Maximus is transported to Filly, which the Brotherhood of Steel has recently conquered. Once there, he is brought before Quintus, who notes that he is wearing Knight Titus' clothes. Maximus reveals that Knight Titus is dead and presents Quintus with the fake head. Quintus has his clerics examine the head, and they discover it's a fake since it doesn't have the artifact. Quintus accuses Maximus of lying about the artifact, as he lied about his culpability in Dane's maiming. The Brotherhood knights restrain Maximus and point a gun to his head, with Quintus demanding he confess. Maximus implores Quintus to spare his life, promising to lead the Brotherhood to the artifact's location if they do so. Dane then interjects, confesses that their injury was self-inflicted, and pleads for Quintus to listen to Maximus for the sake of the Brotherhood. Quintus commends such a rare display of loyalty and orders the knights to release Maximus.

Quintus and Maximus have a private talk, where Quintus asks Maximus about the circumstances of Titus' death. After discovering that Titus died running, Quintus disappointedly admits that the Brotherhood had lost its way before reminiscing about when they ruled the wasteland on the West Coast. He adds that power must be taken and not given, which is a lesson that he believes Maximus has learned and experienced well. He continues by saying that by leading the Brotherhood to the relic, the two of them will be able to take power, allowing them to start a new Brotherhood, with Quintus as its leader and people like Maximus as its sword. He then reminds Maximus about his lifelong search for a home and offers him a chance to build one together.

Maximus prepares to fight at Griffith Observatory and thanks Dane for speaking in his defense. Maximus is surprised to find that Dane will be fighting alongside him. Dane explains it's punishment for maiming themself and apologizes to Maximus for their deception, as they had no idea he would be blamed for it. Maximus tells Dane there's nothing to apologize for as he believes he was meant to go on that mission, elaborating that he met Lucy because of it. He's not only going to fight the upcoming battle to rescue her, but also to leave with her to live in her vault. Maximus describes her vault as a "... place that's peaceful... and safe. Where nobody ever goes to war." Dane replies that there is nowhere that's safe, and there is no leaving the Brotherhood, even though they wish there were.

Maximus fights in the battle to take the observatory. After defeating Lee Moldaver's NCR forces in the courtyard, during which Maximus shoots at least one NCR soldier, Maximus' squadron breaches the observatory. Once inside the observatory, Maximus' squad is ambushed by the Ghoul and suffers heavy casualties; only Maximus is shown to escape, and the others' fates are left unseen. One of the knights the Ghoul decapitates inadvertently breaks through the control room doors where Lucy and her father, Hank MacLean, are being held. Maximus enters the room, frees Lucy's father from his cage, and proceeds to try to shepherd Lucy to an escape from the battle. Lucy stops him as she refuses to return with her father, who she reveals was responsible for the bombing of Shady Sands. Enraged by this information, Maximus attempts to attack Hank, but Hank has equipped the fallen Brotherhood knight's power armor and knocked Maximus out.

When Maximus regains consciousness, he notices that Lucy and her father have disappeared. Moldaver, who was grievously injured with a gunshot wound, arrives to activate the artifact and uses it to create cold fusion. With the cold fusion reactor activated, Maximus and Moldaver watch as it powers Los Angeles with unlimited energy. Moldaver insinuates that the Brotherhood of Steel will abuse the unlimited energy that they will acquire after the battle. She warns Maximus about what the Brotherhood would do with unlimited energy and entreats him to try stopping them if they are corrupted by their newfound power, but is uncertain if he will succeed. Ultimately, she concludes that his trying is all anyone can expect of him. Moldaver succumbs to her wounds and dies. Dane finds Maximus with Moldaver's corpse and asserts that he killed her. Maximus attempts to correct Dane, but they have already started spreading the narrative to the rest of the Brotherhood forces present and begin calling for Maximus to be promoted to Knight Maximus for the feat. Hailing Maximus as a hero, the Brotherhood forces begin chanting for all to hail "Knight Maximus," though he is no longer happy about it like he may have been in the past.

个性[]

马克西姆斯是一个需要有信仰才能继续前进的人。据说他渴望依附于某些强大的东西，比如兄弟会，因为这让他觉得自己比一个人更有能力。^[15]他会尽一切努力实现兄弟会的目标，为这片废土带来法律和秩序。^[2][16]他正在经历内心的冲突，据说他是一个内心正在进行战争的人。^[17]他最大的恐惧是软弱，他寻求权力作为一种手段来保护自己免受废土的暴力和危险。^[18]

马克西姆斯倾向于在当下思考，而不是在他的情况下批判性地思考或提前计划。例如，他把自己伪装成骑士提图斯，而不是简单地声称自己在战斗中阵亡，这导致他的对手塞迪厄斯被指派为扈从，这就需要他继续使用诡计。或者当他认为露西将在4号避难所被处决时，他冲到他的动力装甲那里，而她只是被流放了。这也可以从他的信念中推断出来，即大战及其原子弹爆炸指的是对沙蔭市的破坏，以及他对性交的误解。

他还在多个场合表现出了糟糕的魅力，比如没能说服一个修理工以更便宜的价格修理一个零件，或者没能说服塞迪厄斯和他一起模仿骑士提图斯，或者试图向露西求婚。

尽管他支持兄弟会的理想，但他承认他为兄弟会而战的主要动机是'伤害那些伤害我的人'，并表现出升级为暴力的渴望。他在打扫厕所时处理了很多被压抑的愤怒，拒绝与一对废土食人族穿越小路，并考虑在塞迪斯被指派为他的扈从时伤害他(以骑士提图斯的名义)。当他看到塞迪斯以扈从的身份在他面前卑躬屈膝时，他重新考虑了一下，但继续用毫无意义的任务贬低他，直到塞迪斯在马克西姆斯面前显露出悲伤(知情的经过)。然而，当马克西姆斯未能说服塞迪斯维持他的虚构身份时，仍然试图谋杀塞迪斯，压碎他的脚，尽管两人都在与嗜吞螈的相遇中救了其他人的命。

也许是相应的，当他在4号避难所中感受到舒适、安全和相对奢侈的生活时，他愿意安定下来，融入社区，放弃他在兄弟会的职位和他的使命。然而，当他认为露西的生命处于危险之中时，他去干预，因为他知道他将不再能够留在4号避难所。同样，他对4号避难所的生存表现出冷酷无情，他偷走了他们的核融合核心，并想在被驱逐出避难所后保留它来维护他的T-60动力装甲，但露西仍然设法说服他归还它。

然而，马克西姆斯也表现出利他主义的一面，他将兄弟会骑士及其在保护废土方面的作用理想化，并对骑士提图斯无法达到这一标准感到非常失望。当他看到一个废物试图杀死一个snake-oil salesman时，他进行了干预，并在对抗结束后释放了他。在费城中，他还用自己的动力装甲保护了露西，把她从尸鬼手中救了出来。

库存[]

辐射:避难所

	套装
	BOS casual
	武器
	T60手枪

注释[]

• 马克西姆斯的等级是"扈从"。在过去的系列条目中，侍从的等级只用于指兄弟会中的儿童学员，而年长的准备战斗的学员则被称为新兵。
  • 辐射76表明这是最初的创始人罗杰·麦克森有意识的决定，因为一些成年新兵认为使用传统上为儿童保留的头衔是对他们的侮辱。^[19]
  • "兄弟会"的文化和权力结构因地区和时期的不同而有很大差异，这就是等级系统差异的原因。

名言[]

• "去伤害那些伤害我的人。" – 马克西姆斯为什么加入兄弟会
• "我只是…我只是…我想谢谢你。感谢你的指引，感谢你给我一个家。我-我在这个世界上没有立足之地。所以…如果我能帮助兄弟会使它变得更好…伊甸或其他地方…即使这意味着牺牲自己的生命…我也会去做的。”我会感激兄弟会给了我生命的意义。"
• "改善这个堕落的世界是骑士的职责。你配不上那身装甲。"
• "要么退下，要么被干掉。"
• "同样的事情总是发生。每个人都想拯救世界，只是在如何拯救的问题上存在分歧。"
• "你现在想让我的鸡巴爆炸?"

登场[]

马克西姆斯登场在辐射电视剧 和辐射:避难所 。

幕后[]

• 辐射社交媒体账户为马克西姆斯推荐了一个辐射76的辅助能力:
  • 力量: Pain Train, 武器随身带, Full Charge, Heavy Gunner, 虎背
  • 感知: Crack Shot
  • 耐力: All Night Long
  • 魅力: 保镖, Squad Maneuvers, Tenderizer
  • 智力: Portable Power, Fix It Good, Wrecking Ball, Stabilized, Power Patcher, Power User
  • 敏捷: White Knight
  • 幸运: Mysterious Savior, One Gun Army

图库[]

电视剧[]

Maximus in a flying Vertibird with a Brotherhood member wearing T-60 power armor sitting on his left on a poster

Amazon preview

Dane and Maximus

Maximus in his dormitory

With the Brotherhood

Maximus wearing the damaged T-60 power armor

Maximus' power armor's faceplate opening and closing

With Lucy on his left side

With Lucy

Maximus and Dane in the Battle of Griffith Observatory

Making his way to the NCR's Griffith Observatory

Maximus in combat while armed with a Colt 6520 pistol

商品[]

手机壳

Miniature box for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare and Fallout: Factions

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