Michelson is a soldier in the army of the Authorities who joined the secret rebel group the Insurgency. He was one of the nine survivors of the destruction of Arcis in 2175.

"We can’t trust our own companions, we can’t trust anyone here. You’d have to be a suicidal fool to put your life in the hands of anyone else on the face of this earth.”

– Michelson to Allison, in Fallen Nation: Downfall