Moncren Inglan was a shy boy growing up with his family in a small apartment in a large city.  He had two older brothers that his parents had high hopes for.  Manvren was athletic and excelled in sports while Renford was a fantastic speaker that could win nearly any debate he engaged in even if he were on the wrong side of an issue. 

Moncren loved history and wished he could have lived centuries ago when society was simpler to understand.  Good and evil were easy to perceive and the pace of life was slower than it was in Vergram; a bustling city of 12 million people. 

Manvren graduated from one of the universities in the city and joined a sports team that paid him 3 million gorvas a year.  His parents were extremely proud of him.  A couple years later, Renford graduated from another university in the city and became an assistant to a legislator who he followed into office after the man retired the next year.  His parents were even prouder of him. 

As for Moncren, a man from the seminary of the Missions Department of the Newgate Baptist Temple came to his church one Sunday and captured his attention.  He could shift to another dimension that was like earth was 1000 years ago or like it might be 1000 years from now.  Since tuition was very low, Moncren was able to convince his parents to allow him to attend the seminary and become a missionary.  Since they didn’t expect much from him, they jumped at the chance to get rid of him for a few years and maybe longer if he became a missionary in some distant dimension.

Moncren graduated in the middle of his class in 1914, married Porva Loonmren, and shifted to a dimension that was similar to England when the Vikings invaded the land and the Saxons held onto territory but barely.  The people were superstitious and the church kept society from slipping any deeper into an era of ignorance.   There were regional rulers that fought each other when they weren’t fighting invaders which landed on the shores of the nation on a regular basis. 

The Inglans brought a male and female biosyn that would also help them as a couple known as Gram and Werna Mangreve.  They also brought three synthetic horses that could be rode and pull a wagon that hauled trunks of clothes and small equipment, replicators, weapons, and other things they needed.   The wagon was covered and driven by the women and pulled by one of the horses while the other two horses were ridden by the males.  Moncren and Gram wielded swords and simple looking multi-mode pistols that had projectile tubes under the barrels that could hold a dozen steel projectiles.  Both men had bags of gold coins tied to their belts and wore force fields in case bandits demanded their money or their lives.  Gram couldn’t be killed.  But Moncren could die.