[AND SO WE LEFT, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN]

MMMO-RPG, or Meta Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Games, is a product only recently achieved by the heightened technology of the 25th century for a slumbering humanity, drifting through space at sub-light speed on our giant solar-wind propelled colony ship to a faraway planet, disembarking from a ruined Earth to greener pasture on Proxima Centauri.

Among them is a cult classic, the game most commonly referred to as LiBet, or the Land in Between. Despite its rough launch and meager fanbase initially; it managed to build up slowly bit by bit behind the scene through the sweats and tears of its passionate developers and the evangelical effort of its fan base until it managed to surpass all other titans of the genre. But alas, it was not for long before it was bought by a bigger company, and bled out talents and hearts slowly through the unchecked greed of corporate interest.

And yet, its original self lived on as a group of players (and if some are to be believed, former devs too) band together to secretly reverse-engineer the game and host it within their own private servers, enjoying yet another, albeit hidden, resurgence within the Meta-Virtual as an imperfect copy of what it once was. An army of lawyers descended upon them, and once by one these private servers fell, sued into oblivion.

What now?[NOW]

Somehow, our named character managed to find himself here, back on a defunct, private server of his favorite game that he helped maintain. Just as he was about to dismiss it as a dream, the sight of his colony ship crashed chassis in the middle of the game starting zone, and the seemingly more-real-than-real nature of the world sent him down a spiral of mystery to untangle whether he is dreaming or awake.