It is 2132, and The ARC Marines are the arm of justice of Chancellor Kiln. Aboard the massive spacefaring war machine known as DRUM 7979, a ragtag group of soldiers (and one Conscientious Objector Monk) make plans to resist not only authoritarian rule, but the nature of perception itself. DRUM (Dispersal and Reconnaissance Umbrella Module) 7979 is where ship's cook Corgan first meets Lucy the Red, and our universe will never be the same.