It had been 25 years since the White What had crash-landed on the mysterious planet, known as Mira to humans. Despite loosing their home of the last ten millennia, the human race survived strong their new home.
In those twenty five years, their new home, called New Los Angeles - a city based upon the original from Earth, had grown and thrived. It was not only home to humans, but to many Xenoforms. From the honourable Wrothians, to the squeaky Ma-non, all races lived among the city in relative peace.
Despite living there for the last quarter of the century, barely any mysteries of the planet had been solved. From those known by many that a planet similar to Earth, that was relatively close to Earth, had never appeared upon any deep-space scan; to those known by few: that the Human race and many other indigenous species of Earth had survived, despite the destruction of the core's database on impact landing on Mira. It was this that compelled the residents of New LA, to search for the answers to these unknowns.
And to those who knew of the problem, the most important answer to find was: Why were they still alive?
A/N - This section probably has the most spoilers in it, but it's necessary for some background knowledge, since this story is set in the future, relative to the original game story.