Implanted into the player's brain is a "symplant" (or simply, a "sym"), a symbiotic artificial intelligence designed by SYNSYM Corporation to act as a companion as well as a tool to help people in scientific and technical disciplines work more efficiently.

The Rident was experiencing a problem with its artificial gravity generators, and as a maintenance engineer, the player was assigned to fix the ship's

As a safety measure, Captain Roland Tailor and co-pilot Yuri Ruport decided to keep the ship's worm-drive off-line while the gravity generator is being worked on.

The player's objectives are to escape from the crippled transport and to find out who destroyed the ship and what happened to the 163 crew members and passengers aboard.

[1][2][3] The game was developed by Istvan Pely and his team, Sherban Young (screenplay writer) and Seth Jones (musician and sound editor).

In his review, Gordon Aplin (1998), states that the puzzles "are not too difficult for experienced adventurers and are logically consistent within the game world."

It is possible to die in this game, however the player will be automatically restored to a point before they made their fatal error.