Arqueblustia is a large grey ball of rock made habitable by a runaway greenhouse effect created by the red dwarf star around which it orbits. Because it is a large world and had no oceans – all its water is trapped inside the naturally-formed concrete plains that cover some 97 of its surface area – the Imperial Galactic Government decided it would be the perfect planet to dump unwanted soldiers in the wake of the galactic recession that rendered war too costly to be a viable means of interstellar dispute resolution.

Equipping their war veterans with the only kit they needed – the hammers and chisels that would carve out new homes from the concrete surface – the Imperial Galactic Government embarked upon their most effective cost-saving exercise of all time.

Of course the idea of putting lots of men trained in the air of war – against each other – on the same planet and leaving them to fend for themselves did not bode well for peace on Arqueblustia, whose colonists quickly formed gangs and factions that quickly turned their construction tools into weapons of war.

This, and the rising popularity of Brockian Ultra-Cricket, turned Arqueblustia into a potential recruitment hub for the Major Leagues, who found that Arqueblustian Street War was so violent that getting in, recruiting players, and getting out, was almost impossible.

Undeterred, the Leagues borrowed heavily against future ticket receipts to develop a powerful hallucinogenic psychodysleptic grass which, once the planet had been seeded from orbit, created a drug whose use rendered the holding of tools and weapons impossible (this last statement is untrue; what it really does is render the picking up of tools and weapons impossible).

This had an unfortunate side-effect: thanks to the runaway greenhouse effect the grass quickly spread across the globe, and without tools the Arqueblustians found the easiest way of smoking it was to create brushfires which, when combined with the runaway greenhouse effect, got the entire planet permanently high.

The Arqueblustian Street Wars ended overnight. With nothing to do and no culture to fall back on, the Arqueblustians asked the Imperial Galactic Government to send cultural missions to bring new forms of art and entertainment to the planet.

However, because of the Arqueblustians violent reputation, few dared to set foot on the planet's surface. Instead, an artificial moon was donated by the pop-group Disaster Area, who reformed to hold a one off Arqueblustian Relief Concert. Some say the real reason for Disaster Area's involvement was because they couldn't raise the cash to build a moon of their own.

What made the artificial moon so special was its ability to absorb, focus and amplify signal s from across the universe, beaming the cultural output of a billion worlds directly to the surface of Arqueblustia at a frequency designed to be picked up and amplified by the grass that now covered most of the planet's surface.

Very soon the Arqueblustians had become music lovers, rediscovering their passion for conflict as the crypto-punks clashed with the psycho-hippies and the blue-swingers were set upon by the neo-operatics. As the music allowed them to express their violence once more, it became their religion.

Filled with violent musical zeal, the Arqueblustian Space Force was formed, and gangs of deep-space thugs left their home world with a mission: to tour the galaxy playing loud music on intergalactic ghetto blasters, desperately trying to persuade citizens of the galaxy to agree with their eclectic musical tastes.