For thousands of years, advanced alien civilizations have visited the Earth for one purpose: to steal our bravest warriors. For centuries, the cream of Earth's warriors have been taken against their will to fight, die, and be reborn in arena's throughout the galaxy.

The Game Guilds provide some of the most watched sport in the known universe with matches broadcast in thousands of systems. A perennial favorite of sports fans everywhere are the humans - a primitive race from the far edge of the galaxy.

Over the millennia, the finest warriors of that backwater planet have been brought to the arenas to fight each other and a host of others. Even now, Recruiters still acquire the best of their militaries for the games.

The humans go on in their tiny light years bubble of space believing themselves the most advanced race in the universe while the rest of the galaxy watches their ancestors fight and die in the Death Fields...