John Ransom was born in 1960, a native of the England of the Earth known to its inhabitants as Thulcandra, but is a resident of the Earth known as Terra Meridiana (TM). Both worlds are members of the EarthLeague. With its capital on TM, EarthLeague is an alliance of human worlds distantly removed in the multiverse from those familiar to the other Rifters, and separated from them by the group of Earths overpowered by the Kromaggs. The EarthLeague, which is highly advanced, has been fighting its own war against the Kromaggs for over thirty years. EarthLeague has access to wormhole technologies that permit controlled travel not just through the multiverse but also through space and time, and each of the three arms of its military, EarthForce, is responsible for one dimension of travel. EarthF