After his space ship is blown to bits by enemy forces, Henry Bronson finds himself and his life pod survivors crashed onto a world that is stuck in the middle ages, complete with swords, horses, and men in metal armor. All Henry wants is to get back up into space but his partner is kidnapped and the power source for their homing beacon is stolen. Henry must use weapons from the dark ages and all his knowledge of battle history to overthrow the current king and retrieve that which is most precious to him. Just in case they never get rescued, Henry details as much as he knows in his log book for future generations so that the people of this world might eventually break free from their historical time warp.

Five hundred years after Henry Bronson, the kingdom is still firmly in the middle ages. A crazy old man in a loin cloth insists that Roy is the true king, as opposed to the tyrant currently upon the throne. Placating him, Roy journeys across the kingdom, battling danger and death, in search of objects to fulfill the old man's prophesy. Adopted as an infant and working in the stables in the shadow of the king's castle, Roy is almost positive he was not meant for greatness. It is a struggle to accept his destiny until he finds the futuristic journal Henry Bronson wrote. Roy realizes that in order to save everything he loves he must step up and become the king that he has denied for so long. He must fulfill the quest dictated by the old man, use the advice of Henry Bronson, and claim his rightful throne to become king of the Southern Empire.