Armstrong

Armstrong was a Corporal serving in either the 4th or 13th Great Midwest Commonwealth Armed Infantry Division.

Background
Armstrong participated in the Anchorage Reclamation virtual training exercise and was set to be deployed. In the meantime, he found himself serving as homeland security.

This meant that he was stationed in the US, during the nuclear holocaust and was asigned with escorting Presper to Boulder Dome. Several Communist insergents were in the area and were sent to assassinate Presper on sight. Presper arrived safely and after thanking Armstrong for his services, entered the lab and put himself in cryo stasis, hoping to ride the war out.

Nine months later, that fateful day came and the bombs fell. Armstrong was on shore leave at the time and it was a good thing as well. Seeing that the world was ending outside, Armstrong returned to the Boulder Dome and put himself in cryogenic stasis and froze himself for nearly 200 years.

Presper was the first to wake up and realised what Armstrong had done and elected to awake Armstrong and the two of them travelled the wastes together, with Armstrong serving as the 'muscle.'

At some point, during this time, Armstrong proved to be flawed and Presper needed him stronger and more resistent to the environment. He gave Armstrong a 'vaccine' to help him fight off any post war viruses that he might encounter but it was actually a strain of FEV, that bulked up his muscle mass, heightened his senses and had several other benefits, such as immunity to radiation.

Armstrong isn't stupid and knows what Presper did to him but cannot deny the edge that it gave him, in combat.