40,000 years after the start of common era (which also happens to coincide with certain religious events) and several hundred million years before the events of Numenera, the galaxy is torn by war. Humanity is lead by an immortal god king kept living by eating 1,000 psychics a day. The universe is full of hostile alien life, strife, and cultural stagnation. Thorough out man's corrupt imperium perhaps there is no group more wicked, more callously focused on personal gain, than the crew of The Golden Corral.