Before the apocalypse, Chester Smith was a construction worker. When the pandemic hit, he was close enough to the ground zero that the government didn't even attempt to evacuate his town—the news about zombies didn't barely reached them yet.
After surviving the nanite core installation, Smith did the same thing he did all his previous life: blindly followed the leader. When his group of survivors heard about Radiant Base and the safety it offered, they all travelled to join it.
For years afterwards, Smith's life was calm. As an experienced builder, he had been a demanded specialist even without a superpower. Then, four years into the apocalypse, Smith met the Third Eye. It turned out it wasn't an organisation—it was a person.