The setting is planet Riax, a company planet in the first galaxy owned by Grip Inc. There is a moderately strong Tundak Mafia presence on the planet and the characters are affiliated with a smaller associate crime organization known as the Havug Group. The characters are a mercenary group known as THEM – The Homicidal Ego Maniacs. They’re definitely not the ‘good guys’. They start as 3^rd stage characters and have a number of underlings loosely allied with them.

The game starts with a meeting with Commander Saf. Commander Saf is a Gavagh Malitia droid that is a member of the Havug group. He offers them a job to retrieve some large-scale explosives that were hijacked from the Tundak Mafia. The hijackers are suspected to be Trupepol. They are loaned a ship and pilot. Payment for successful completion of the mission will be the ship they are loaned. It’s called the triple-e or ‘EEE’.

The mission is mostly a success. The Trupepol were indeed responsible for the hijacking and they had a number of coerced mercenaries to protect them. They were hiding in an old Confederation base on planet Riatus. The characters managed to fight their way into the base, get aboard a ship that housed many of the weapons and take off with it. In the process they rescued a Human female scientist named Heliozoan and killed at least one Trupopol and many of their lackeys. Unfortunately, in a battle that killed the Trupepol mentalist, Death Monkey #9 was destroyed. As payment, they were given the EEE and retained the services of the pilot - Lidiak.