The interstellar Gate network which bound the stars of the Human Domain in a network of trade, industry, and empire collapsed in an instant that irrevocably shattered known civilization. Countless fleets were scattered and lost. The sophistication of the high age of technology is but a memory. Entire worlds cut off from the Gate network starve, burn, and tear themselves apart. You find yourself stuck in the Persean Sector, a cut-off pocket of divided worlds trying to recover from the great Collapse.