People say that life is a game. They are right. It was created in the Earth year 1860 and is currently published by the Milton Bradley Company, a subsidiary of Hasbro. Young humans on the planet of Earth play Life. It is another game too, created by John Conway. It is a zero-player game representing cellular automata. On Earth, scientists and genii and the caste described as “nerds” and “geeks” play Conway’s Game. But here in the Orb, we do not play either game of Life. We are far beyond the point of life. Here, we play the Game of Infinity.

Welcome human, to the Orb.

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“I am one of the few that are known in your culture as the Sons of Infinity. My true name cannot be pronounced by your human physique, but you will call me Death. And from this point you will no longer be known as Jack Farnabey, genius high schooler destined for prosperity and greatness; you will be called Nemak, a Lieutenant in the service of Death. Now Nemak, let me explain to you your current situation.”

“Many aeons ago, before the birth of time, one deity of Everything existed, which named itself Infinity. Infinity brought forth a single bubble of space-time that continually grew. We know it as the Universe. Next, it formed another bubble, much smaller, one which did not grow. In this other bubble, there was a copy of the Universe. It then created two new deities, which it named Life and Death, and bound them to a last creation it forged from its own existence known as the Charter. From that point Life was given the ultimate goal of creating prosperous sentience on all the planets in the Universe while Death must attempt to destroy it, with the Charter being the rules they must follow. To give them a starting point, at the creation one planet was given sentient life at start. The planet was named Earth and the race, humans.

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