who sought total control over his followers and total destruction of anything contradicting his beliefs. Russell took away J.D.'s proof - the picture - thus robbing him of the ability to grow his movement, and so J.D. has made many efforts to hunt down and kill Russell, all of which have failed. Arnold Shafer Ph.D. - Arnold was originally a Maryland university teacher as the Department Chair of Anthropology, with a Ph.D. in political evolution. Following "The Fall", and having always been a steam train enthusiast due to it being a safer energy and fuel source, fully restored an old locomotive steam train and brought together a group of teachers and scholars named "The New World Historians", travelling the country, operating out of the steam train, spreading the word and reporting news on different areas of the United States. Arnold sought not only to make their point of view, among the many circulating among the survivors, the most known and accepted, but to write a new history of the world itself. Arnold initially approached Russell as a friend and offered him the chance to make history - to join his group, and in so doing get back to Seattle in a month. Russell, taken in and impressed by the group, accepted, only to learn the actual truth from Paul "The Contrarian" Krantz - a conspiracy theorist who was killed by the New World Historians for the secret memo that revealed who The New World Historians really were - Field Operatives of the Parthia Group, seeking to spread their version of the truth instead of what actually happened. After Russell fended off Arnold's efforts to have him hunted down by bounty hunters, conflicts seemed to subside. Russell was forced to defeat a smear campaign launched by Arnold, who tried to label him as a criminal and terrorist. Later they battled again when Arnold was tasked with destroying all evidence of Parthia's links to "The Fall" and spread their version of the truth worldwide. To keep the number of people who knew the truth small, Arnold executed his own men after destroying the headquarters of the company that manufactured the nanomachines used in "The Fall", and then was subdued and held at gunpoint by Russell - who gloated that Arnold's efforts to spread their lies had failed and instead replaced by the truth by Russell and his allies. Arnold was then executed