At the helm of Anachronox is Tom Hall, the man behind many popular and revolutionary games such as the Commander Keen series, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Rise of the Triad, and Terminal Velocity. The Story Anachronox takes place 700 years in the future, at a time when the galaxy is experiencing an unprecedented amount of travel and exploration. Around 300 years before the current time of Anachronox people began discovering strange alien technology located on countless planets spread far and wide. Each machine had a purpose, some of them healed, some were weapons, and some have never been fully understood. A century after the first MysTech were discovered, the first Sender was discovered.
Senders are large metal planets covered with huge metal spikes.
The first pilot to discover a Sender noticed one of the spikes emitted a radio frequency. When he honed into the frequency he was pulled towards the planet. As he neared the spike, a hole opened up and he was blasted through space to a completely different part of the galaxy. However it wasn't long before ships equipped with inertial dampeners to protect against the radiation were using the senders to travel the galaxy. In the center of the galaxy lies the largest of all the Senders, Sender One.