Nathan Causer

Nathan Claude Causer was born in Los Angeles on the day of the Great War of 1962. His parents died that day, but they managed to get the new-born to safety in a public fallout shelter before the bombs dropped. He was adopted into a family of intellectuals. When he grew up, he would become a member of the Angels Republic House of Representatives representing a district in Angelica from 1990 to 1994, when he lost his re-election campaign due to a betrayal by political allies. Causer's peers in Congress believed him to be a quite strange man. He was immensely intelligent and charismatic, yet extremely anti-social, and many believed he was psychopathic.

When Causer lost his re-election in 1994, he moved to New Phoenix. At the time, the city was ruled by several different factions, but they all had one problem in common: hostile tribes wanted to kill them. Causer, inspired by James Hathaway's uniting of Angelica, raised an army and brought all of New Phoenix under his rule. Then he protected the city from the hostile tribals.

From the moment Causer took power, he developed a cult of personality around himself. In 2000, he even claimed to be the second coming of Jesus Christ - God himself. He killed anyone who suggested otherwise. Causer marched his armies across Arizona, conquering tribes and assimilating them into his growing empire. Eventually, he would start a campaign against the Mormons in Utah, and enslaved those who denied him as God. Bitter from his betrayal when he was in Congress, his ultimate goal was to destroy the Angels Republic, and wreak as much havoc on New World civilization as he could.

In 2062, the Californian Civil War broke out. Causer gave support to the rebellion, fighting for independence. He saw it as a chance to split California in two or more pieces. The rebellion was reluctant to accept the support, but ultimately they had no choice in the matter. In 2065, the Mormons of Utah revolted, and Causer was forced to bring most of his troops back to Arizona. Some Navajo tribes threw away their identity with the empire, and revolted as well. In 2068, Angels Republic and Mormon forces surrounded New Phoenix. Jeremy Wright boldly murdered the old Causer in his palace before being crucified. As news of Causer's death spread through what was left of the empire, it crumbled.