Jensen grew up in privilege behind the gates of Charlbury Manor in Windsor, never questioning the locked basement door his parents forbade him to open. On his eighteenth birthday, that changed. He was finally allowed inside and discovered the impossible. His father had built a Gateway: a walk-through device capable of transporting a person faster than light to another location. He was meant to keep it secret. He didn’t. After a night of drinking, Jensen brought his girlfriend home and broke the one rule that mattered. In the chaos that followed, he stumbled into the Gateway and vanished, not just across space, but forty years into the future, into the very world his father had dreamt of in his strange visions of “Progression.” Earth in 2023 was on the brink of transformation. Now Jensen is living through that transformation firsthand. Stranded, alone, and unable to return, he must learn to survive in a world reshaped by forces he doesn’t yet understand. His parents are gone. His old life is gone. But Jensen hasn’t regressed or progressed— he’s trapped in a future that was never meant to be his. And somewhere out there, the truth about the Gateway and whether he will ever see his family again waits to be uncovered.