From the introduction: The Terran Dominion rules supreme as the only known union of sentient beings in the universe. Only one evolved race of beings has been discovered other than the Terrans - The Ytyl, who have been incorporated into the Dominion as a lesser caste. In the Oort cloud of solar system 22469 a lone science vessel, the Dominion Starship "Baxter" has received a message which can only have come from a technologically developed civilisation. As the crew of the "Baxter" attempt to discover the origin of the message, events occur which promise to change the face of the entire Dominion... User summary: The game is distributed as a ZIP archive containing 28 RTF files, one XLS file, and one ASCII "readme" file.