José Alejandro Menzendorf

José Alejandro Menzendorf is a former resistance leader, member of the Volunteer Australian Foreign Legion and Military Governor of the Southern Alps Governorate, seated at Mount Buller, until the fall of Canberra on May 2020.

Born in 1978, José was raised and educated in the city of Concepción, Republic of Chile. His father was a registered notary in the city, and had formed some links to local authorities through the years of Pinochet's dictatorship. His mother served in the local police force. Upon graduation, Menzendorf travelled to Santiago and began studies in engineering. There he came to know María Isabel Carvallo, his eventual wife. While going through university, José Alejandro took part in the Universidad de Chile Student's Council, and was part of the drafters of the *Dying Millenium* pamphlet, which denounced the legacy of Pinochet and was distributed throughout the city.

With the promulgation of the Neuesgrundes Gezets, middle government officials were pruned. The relationships between Menzendorf Sr. and Öster had soured, and the latter saw fit to consider the legal attaché for removal. His position was stripped in late April 2002. Threats against the house would force the couple to go into hiding before May 1st.

Whether Menzendorf was involved in any insurgency or not at this point is debatable, but the couple was targetted for a purge short after their location was established. José Alejandro and his sister Astrid both returned to Concepción and whitnessed from hiding the May 7th purges. The father organized their boarding of a "Submarine Train" to Oceania, making a short arival at Easter Island before heading off to Sydney.

Upon ariving at Sydney and applying for asylum, the three children of the marriage began searching for a job, trying to make themselves useful. Some days afterwards José found the couple murdered in their appartment by an obvious metahuman assassin. The next day, the younger brother Martín joined the V.A.F.L. and went on to serve until 2013. Astrid continued her studies on medicine while José validated a title as Engineer. he joined the same unit as his brother in 2003, with 25 years of age.

By 2004, his service is reported to be outstanding, not only using his know how in the middle of the battlefield, making the best use of recycled civilian material for military use and re-utilizing military gear in creative ways, but also with a reportedly dedicated valor and temperance. He was promoted to Lance-Corporal short after incorporation and to Sergeant by 2006. By that time the VA.F.L. was reorganized into the South United Nations Army.

Notable battles include the Evacuation of Mildura in 2005, the First Bombing of Alice Springs in 2006, the Tasmanian Campaign in 2007 and the Air Raid of Bathurst in early 2008. He was promoted to Lieutenant and stationed there short after.

The increased refugee crisis drove a wedge between the formal Australian Armed Forces and the United Nations Armies. A portion of the Asutralian Government made by foreign members of the U.N. gained enough drive to cause the government to be remade into a multi-national organization. The resulting political split caused some engagements between refugees, United Nations armies and the Australian Army.

Menzendorf, estationed at Bathurst, was in a prime location to aid Canberra, where the Australian Government had resisted the takeover. But his silence was one of the factors that caused its eventual demise and surrender. He had married to María Isabel Carvallo, and seemed more preocupied with the safety of his wife, pregnant at the time.

Right after establishment of this government, José was granted the rank of General, and tasked with the defense of the Southern Alps, bombed by Dynastic Forces two years prior into near-depopulation. By then the U.N. had realised a model of underground fortifications would be required, and the establishment of the fragmented military structure of government had begun. José used his resources to pursue this policy and fortified Mount Buller into one of the most impressive fortresses in Southern Australia. A model to be replicated at Mount Buffalo in 2011.

A year after his command, he was also appointed Undersecretary of Interior, and became Secretary of Interior in 2011. From there he ensured the ease of passage from South America into his own colony in the Southern Alps. Yet his participation in actual politics was somewhat curved after the death of his brother Martín in 2013. He resigned as Secretary of Interior in 2017.