The year is 6357 a.d.,  its been 27 years since the Empire wars had ended and a universal peace treaty had been put in place.  The United Universal Alliances have placed a one malitia force in charge of maintaning the peace.  You all have been recruited as a unit in the malitia over the past ten years to deal with any outbreaks of injustice or problems.  Minor situations had been snuffed out for the most part until last year when the rift appeared.  The crack in space was picked up by the head quarters of the Universal Alliances, it was noticed as a blotch on all the screens.  However with in 24 hour it grew to a nice sized rift in space.  24 hours later the UA noticed and energy spike near the rift, this showed up as black blotches on the radars.  The darkness began to spill into space and the stars closest to the rift began to go out mysteriously.<br/><br/>(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/086/2/c/Space_Rift_by_andreimogan.jpg)<br/><br/>The stars and planet about the darkness were lesser balls of gas and rock uninhabited.  These palnets were abbandonded durring the Empire wars since these planets were ravaged for the most part.