Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant was frozen in time when his ship got too close to a black hole in the battle that destroyed The Commonwealth. The Commonwealth was an alliance of planets that was betrayed by the Nietzscheans, genetically altered humans who believed themselves to be better than the rest of the universe. Captain Hunt's ship was pulled from the black hole 300 years later, and Dylan was stuck in a different future ruled by anarchy between the planets. Dylan set off on a mission to make the universe a better place, and rebuild the Commonwealth.