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