For the first time, the research ship RSS SOLARIUS has successfully travelled through the Great Nebula of a distant galaxy on its way to the OUTER RIM. The humanoid REYS - designers and builders of the vast SOLARIUS carrier ship - thus tackled their first major project since the Galactic War. The SOLARIUS is approaching the first unknown worlds of the OUTER RIM with its scientific instruments, research units, eagerly inquisitive officers and highly motivated team.