I am in the slow process of trying to move my people outside of Thunder Mountain, so I thought I should try to introduce myself first to the real world. How can I take this community outside if I have never ventured forward myself? This seemed an easy way to make some contacts.

My name is Markus Alexander. I'm the leader of a secret community of survivors living in an old NORAD military base after a virus nicknamed the Big Death wiped out all the human adult population 15 years ago. My father was a researcher in this facility. After the virus was introduced into our environment and killed all our parents, I helped organize all the surviving children into a community. After hiding inside Thunder Mountain for 15 years, we are now trying to work with others outside to rebuild the world.

I'm rather reserved, though once I become comfortable with people, I can loosen up. I'm a thinker and I've been told I talk too much sometimes!

I've dedicated my life to the idea of bringing the government back, maybe better than it was before. More tolerant. Kinder. A government that lifts up instead of grinds down, that ennobles us and gives us the only gifts that really matter: dignity, courage, and hope.