Joe (The Silent Age)

Joe is the main protagonist of the video game The Silent Age. He is a janitor who is tasked with saving the world from a deadly virus.
==Biography==
The game begins in New York City, 1972. Joe has been working as a janitor for two years at the Archon corporation, a research and development company dedicated to discovering the next big breakthrough in military defence technology. He was finishing up on his cleaning duties when he is suddenly summoned to his boss, Mr. Hill’s office and is informed that his coworker Frank has left the company to pursue a different career. Because of this, Joe has been promoted to fill Frank's position and is given access to clean the restricted levels of the building.
Joe heads down to the R&D laboratories to fulfil his new responsibilities but he soon notices a trail of blood on the floor which leads him to find a elderly man dying from a gunshot wound. The old man tells Joe that he is from 30 years in the future and has traveled back in time to stop a disastrous event from occurring. However, now unable to prevent the event himself, the old man is forced to rely on Joe to carry out his mission. Joe is given a solar-powered device that would enable him to travel between time periods and is urged by the old man to find his younger self before seemingly succumbing to his injury. Following this, the authorities arrive at the scene and Joe is taken to the police station for questioning.
While the cops attempt to get some answers from him, Joe decides to press a button on the time travelling device and is instantaneously sent 30 years into a bleak future where the world lies in ruins. He finds himself still at the same location from when he left, except it was now very dilapidated and had the skeletal remains of both officers lying on floor in front of him. The miniature time machine also appeared to be out of power, leaving Joe stranded in this time period unless he can recharge it with sunlight. He leaves the interrogation room to explore the old building until he manages to find enough sunshine to make the jump back to the seventies. However, with the police on alert since his disappearance from interrogation, Joe uses the time machine to alternate between present and future as a way of getting by undetected.
He made his way to the hospital where the old man's body was kept and learnt from his medical records that he was a scientist named Reginald Lambert who lived on a island in Lake Chrichton. Joe commandeers a ambulance to drive to the lake then sails across it towards Lambert's island home. Upon arrival, he is greeted by a alligator guarding the property and had to find some food to distract it while he breaks through the front door of the house. Joe eventually finds the present day Doctor Lambert armed with a shotgun in the basement and is forced to quickly explain the incredible events which caused him to seek the doctor out. Lambert notices a insignia engraved on the handheld time machine Joe possessed which convinces him the legitimacy of Joe's story.
Doctor Lambert decides to give Joe an explanation of what he believes is happening and reveals that he was a former employee of the Archon corporation. The company was so impressed by Lambert's theories about achieving time travel that they hired him to develop a functional time machine. However, as work on the project continued, Archon began to run low on funding, so they convinced the Department of Defence to support the research financially by making bogus claims it could be used to stop communism. Eventually, human trails began, which proved to be problematic when test subjects contracted an aggressive virus from the future that claimed their lives in only a few days. But instead of halting the project, Archon spun it to their backers that the virus could be used as a biological weapon and cryogenically froze the infected for study. Lambert left the company after that, but believes that one of the test subjects must of been responsible for unleashing the virus onto society and causing the fall of civilisation.
==Trivia==
*Joe's name is from the phrase 'Average Joe' which describes his character.
*In the beginning cutscene of chapter 1 we get a bit of visual insight on Joe's past where he can be seen painting a boat (1965), enlisted in the military (1968), working as a signman (1969) and finally his current job janitor (1971)
*He states that he grew up on the country side around Moonshiners.
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