Editing Carrier Group:PlayerCharacters (section)

===Background===
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The New Dawn (initium novum)

38 years old, auburn brown hair, buff & sturdy built

Katya was a science-teacher in high school, she excels in physics, chemistry and engineering. Her passion was teaching young minds and making them get excited about science and this has now extended on trying to keep the lore and knowledge alive. She will rescue books right after humans, over supplies, sometimes before people.

She is originally from Russia, but immigrated to the US two decades ago to study the sciences. She left her entire family behind, and is presuming them all dead.

She is a hands on, no-nonsense, 'let's deal with this' -type, with good persuasion skills. One cannot help but like her, as her witty remarks lighten the otherwise so drag atmosphere. 

She survived the initial virus with just her strong immunity, but when she realized the whole pandemic, she packed everything that was in the school laboratory (that she could muster) and stuffed them in a van and went hiding in a WW2 bunker her neighbor and friend Carl had prepared (he was planning it for a nuclear apocalypse, but, hey an apocalypse is an apocalypse). She spent the first year within that, listening to radio, doing a bit scavenging etc. But then her neighbor died (old age) and turned. He was like a father to her and she had to shoot through his head. It was time to move on. 'Uncle' Carl's legacy was to teach her to shoot and maintain weaponry, also many survival skills. She is resourceful

Her short-term goal is to gather information and knowledge (from books and people) old knowledge to be preserved and new knowledge about the virus. She is no virologist, so she needs to find a good one, pronto. Her mid-term aim is to gather, build and maintain a new community and teach the children of it, her dream is to reinstate the state of affairs like they were, but for that she needs to first know if the virus is spread from mother to the fetus. If it is, she needs to find untainted women, they will be top on her list.