In a far off periphery of the cosmos, just beyond the known Universe, a most unusual event begins to occur. It looks like a shimmer, refracting the expression of space and time but taking on no qualities of itself visible to the eye or any instrument. It behaves in a paradoxical manner, absorbing all matter inside it, like a black hole, while simultaneously taking on the emanative qualities of a star radiating an unknown substance, X.

In the center of the Known Universe, the Hiii Council gather in great urgency to discuss how to address this extraordinary phenomena. Because they know near nothing of this space and it defies what they know of all others, they've deemed it “The Anomaly". Its discussion arouses a great deal of unease because the field is growing at a rapid rate, and hurling through space towards them is something they do not understand in the slightest.

Amidst great haste, the Council decides to send in one of their best scientific explorers to observe the Anomaly and report back what it is and how to destroy it.