HUMANS: WE'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE GALAXY...
Space is big, and we're everywhere in it. Once we had RAD-capable starships, there was no stopping us; the Reciprocal Alternate Dimension was our bridge to everywhere, and we did what we did best: go somewhere, and adapt to it.

...FOR LONGER THAN WE CAN REMEMBER...
Our civilizations have risen and fallen more times than most people can count, and there's evidence of our presence everywhere you look: glittering megacities, domes holding back exotic atmospheres, sprawling space stations...and ruins. Boy, have we left ruins. Some, we've rebulit. Some we fled, and have been taken by the inexorable forces of time and entropy.

But there's a funny thing about all those human fingerprints all over the stars:

...AND WE'RE THE ONLY ONES.
All those aliens we expected to meet, out among the stars? Not a one. Not a living one, anyway -- just plenty of non-sentient ones, and a few dead ones.

Very, very dead ones.

They have left their ruins in places, but none seem to have made it off their own planets. That's The Human Conundrum -- perhaps the greatest mystery of our existence. Forget about why we're here. The real question is this:

Why are we still, and everyone else is dead?

In this game, you'll play freelance stellar adventurers and archaeologists -- interplanetary tomb raiders plundering humanity's rich history and, on occasion, someone else's, searching for the answer to the question of why it's just us. There will be gangsters, empires, bizarre religions, and even strange (but non-sentient) creatures making that hard on you...especially when some of them don't want answers.

NOTE: I've put some sample characters in the CHARACTERS section. You don't have to play them, but you can if you want; if nothing else, they serve as, um...sample characters.

Fire up some DEVO, A Flock Of Seagulls, and Thomas Dolby. We're going to mess with the future.

TL;DR: This game will take place in my own homebrew space opera setting, Radical Space, which -so far as anyone can tell- is like a big wad of Fading Suns, Traveller, Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, only without aliens and woo, all stuck together by my New Wave music collection.