For millions of years, the gods ruled planet earth.

At some point, the gods began fighting each other, and thus were born the 88 constellations.

In the interstellar war among the gods, 29 of the 88 constellations broke away from the federation and formed a confederacy.

The federation won the war, and shut down the last wormhole to planet earth: The Rainbow Bridge.

Human technology greatly increased during the time that the gods were away to the point where somebody on earth –accidentally, mind you– was able to reopen the Rainbow Bridge.

46,656 Gods are within 292 parsecs of Earth.