On the far side of the Milky Way galaxy, theapathetic alien company, the Nexus Conglomerate, has a corporate stranglehold onthe sector. Hosting "product tests" on their gargantuan space station known asthe Hypodrome, Nexus found a way to combine entertainment, advertising, andproduct demonstration at the expense of the testers - gladiator guinea pigs, snatched from under-developed planets to be used as fodder by their variousalien handlers. Enter...