In the year 4091, humanity has left Earth long behind, millennia of heavy industry and corrupting the Earth have rendered their home planet uninhabitable, and they have taken to the stars in search of a better home. The entire human race is crammed into a single massive starship called the Chariot, which has been speeding away from their original solar system for centuries. The Chariot will some day reach a new home and begin humanity's rise to power anew. But until that day comes, humanity exist in a state of technological immortality in a world called Elysium. From before they are even born, their brains are plugged into the utterly massive network of the Chariot, and they will know no other life than that of their digital universe. Even while their physical bodies are masterfully cared for by the Chariot's automated drones, and a few very unlucky/generous/insane humans given robotic bodies, the minds of humanity dwell in their computerized universe. In Elysium, there is no such thing as death, barring some very rare critical event with the computer, the person choosing to pass on of their own accord, or by the will of the mysterious oligarchs that rule Elysium called The Admins. In Elysium, there is no hunger or thirst, all humanity's biological needs are cared for by the Chariot, and their minds are left to be free of the physical world. In Elysium, there is a universe ruled by the ways and means of computers, and all humanity has the universe at their command to some degree or other.