Robert Maldron was a field doctor at the Battle of Gettysburg. At dusk lying mortally wounded, the dead and dying were visited by a band of traveling vampires and its leader befriended Maldron. Turning him enough for Maldron to recover, he has the life expectancy of a vampire and many of their attributes while still retaining his human identity. The vampire is one of many species that exist on the Continuum plain, a plain whose occupants have been slowly dying over millennia through a lack of quality sustenance.....blood. The Continuum council and its members were responsible for the creation of earth millions of years earlier as an experiment to guarantee much-needed quality sustenance. Blood on the Continuum plain had become infected with a virus rendering it useless, so it had to be recreated in a sustainable virus-free way in isolation, so earth and its universe was created. The experiment had been successful until modern times with the advent of human drug abuse, alcohol and blood diseases. The harvesting of human blood during periods of rest was no longer providing the required food to furnish immortality for species of the Continuum. In frustration, some species are finding access to earth without the permission of the Continuum council, access courtesy of man's mistreatment of planet earth. Access to the earth environment in an uncontrolled way causes some species to react uncharacteristically and they cause havoc and death amongst humans close to where breaches have occurred. Maldron's vampire mentor, Max Von Konstein as the Continuum representative on earth,, occasionally calls upon his help to deal with those creatures from the Continuum plain.