"You are the first generation that might live forever," his teacher had said to him when he was just 14 years old.

He is now over a thousand years old. His life is a sprawling epic, one which spans space and time; and yet, when he sits down to write his memoirs, he finds there are precious few memories worth recording.

He had a love, but has not seen her for centuries. He had some family, but they died long ago, or are on distant planets. He fought in wars, and should have died; but did not.

His story is merely that of an unremarkable man who, through a mere quirk of fate, just happened not to die.