Deus Ex

Four men sat within an ancient building, one of many that were scattered around the central plaza of this deserted world, known only as XLIV-A3. The world orbited around a red-yellow sun, one of millions of main sequence stars that had been discovered and catalogued in this section of the galaxy. From a planetary standpoint, there was nothing particularly unusual about this world; that is, except for the complete absence of life on an otherwise habitable planet.