He lived alone in the twenty-first century, scraping by in poverty. He found himself a wife and, through hard work, managed to buy a car and a house. He thought their life would gradually become happier, but a virus swept across the globe, leaving huge numbers of people unable to work. Businesses stagnated, and he became one of the many swept up in the wave of unemployment. In the end,
after falling behind on his mortgage payments and arguing endlessly with his wife, the house was repossessed and his wife left him. Downcast, he got behind the wheel and somehow ended up in a parallel universe at the beginning of the Age of Emperors...
