From the introduction: The year will come to be known, over a thousand years from now, as 1003 BBY. This is a Galaxy at war, before the reformation of both the Sith order and the Republic of the golden age. These dark years are the result of an ongoing war between Kaan’s Brotherhood of Darkness and the Republic. This year a young man by the name of Dessel will be suspended from his job as a miner for biting another man’s thumb off. This would spark of a series of events that’d result in him joining the Sith Army and eventually reclaiming a name from his childhood - Bane. However, with your arrival, events may play out differently.