2028

AD 2028, First Contact. Unfortunately for us, the Galactic Alliance only bothered to show up in order to draft Earth into an ongoing - and seemingly unwinnable - war. With a near-immediate conscription and little time to arrange our affairs, humankind was in a blink turned into space-faring soldiers... Or, space-faring performers of menial tasks, as our IQs qualified us. 2028 follows two inadvertent heroes, and one anti-hero, into the outer reaches of the space - fighting the dreaded extra-universal Oriax, discovering why precisely we're deemed cosmic pariahs, and perhaps even teaching those haughty aliens a little something about what it means to be human. Or maybe one of us will accidentally destroy the universe. Casinos on the planet Medee are giving out ten-to-one odds...