It is the year 2271. The future is a dark and dangerous place. Outer space is the new frontier, and humanity has left Earth to exploit the galaxy for its own ends. It is over a century and a half since the United Earth Federation first began to colonise the solar system and beyond.

Millions of colonists, employees of either the Federation or one of the many megacorporations, live out their lives on world’s light years from Earth. Corporate-funded exploration craft push ever deeper into space. It is only a matter of time before one of these craft stumbles upon some remote, alien edifice, a cosmic mausoleum of the Great Old Ones. But who is to say this has not already taken place…?

Players take the roles of the Investigators of the future. Those enlightened and oft unlucky individuals who know something of the true nature of the universe. Be they fools or heroes, they take the fight against the Great Old Ones to the stars themselves. Initially the game was geared towards the players running military characters, specificially members of the Colonial Marine Corps, but I have expanded the scope beyond this to include information to enable Keepers to generate civilian investigators too.