It is 2144, just a dozen years since the last (4th) world war, also known as the "Last War".  Now Earth is united under a global government.  All labor is automated, so humanity now lives a life of leasure.  With sporting events banned as uninclusive and discriminitory e-sports stars now stand at the peak of global celebrities just as sports stars used to.  Full body experience virtual reality or FBEVR (pronounced as fever in english), is now the main source of entertainment for most of humanity.  However society does have it's darker side, as the losers of the "Last War" have been pushed to the edges of human society, forced to work for the state as "punishment" for their sins.  One such "Sinner" is a former E-sports celebrity of an old style VRMMO called Underworld was now a nobody known as Mark Ulrich.  Mark, who now lives cut off from most of modern society with his teenage daughter and the ghosts of the Last War deep in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, is visited by an old friend Leo about a new FBEVRMMO which is to be released soon called Underworld-GOLD, with an offer to reprise his old glory.