It is the year 3561; you are serving as a space scout.

"Omega 2 for scout 24: Check out sector 34 X 2788, high levels of radiation are measured." When you arrive, a huge force pulls you in a purple coloured hole.

The space cruiser gets some heavy damage; the shields could only prevent the cruiser from breaking apart. 
After several hours, you arrive in a part of space you are not familiar with. Because the cruiser is heavily damaged you are travelling to the nearest planet. 
The landing is very tricky, when arriving on alien planets the reaction of the planets defence systems will be a guess. But you are lucky, no alarms or defence systems are noticed.  
 

The landing ends in an explosion of the left engine. When regaining consciousness you are lying on some sort of bed. You are carefully analyzing the room and you notice a holo-advertisement that says: "Make money in the Trail Blazers contest!".

 

Surprised by the fact that you are reading English, you are even more surprised when you are finding out that the locals are actually of the human race and think that they are living in the year 5421 AC. They where exploring the galaxy with their biggest spaceship, the Galac3599, when a similar space corridor brought them to this place. Either you or them, or both, have apparently also travelled in time! They tell that there are more planets in this galaxy habitized by humans of the Galac3599 but only are in contact with one of them. They all have developed there own civilizations, similar but not like our own.

This galaxy has a new kind of sport, where you can make money. Three competitors at a time are flying in an arena with special hover-cars. These hover-cars leave a long dangerous trail. When you drive through you get damage, when you collide with an opponent you are wasted.

You can make money by winning a tournament. With the money you can buy different vehicles and upgrades. When you have enough money, the locals are willing to bring you to the neighbour planet. They are supporting your quest in getting home by giving you an old hover-car to start with.