The Starlight Gaming World is set in a fictional future around the mid 22nd Century (current year: 2352), and the major countries of the earth still compete among the stars. The frontiers of mankind have slipped lose from the bonds of earth, and the very newest colonies can be found 80 light years away, and expanding daily. Travel through the firmament is not free, and money can be made by any enterprising type. It is a dangerous galaxy, and fortune favors the bold.