Tommy Sobeck is a civilian living on Earth in a small Kentucky town along with his wife Leah. Together they have a daughter, Rani. Tommy is prone to fantastic ideas, particularly "get rich quick schemes." He first tried to start an AI dog-walking business, then growing ginseng, and later moving on to sell duck meat from a pond in the backyard. At some period in time he also worked at an electronics store called McFarlane's. Anticipating the Covenant attacking and glassing Earth, he took his pension money and set out to build a bunker underneath the duck pond.