Upon its release in 2014, "Elite Dangerous" began in year 3300 and has been in sync with UTC albeit 1286 years in the future. The game is set around 45 years after "Frontier: First Encounters". "Elite Dangerous" retains the basic premise of previous games – players start with a spaceship and a small amount of money in an open galaxy and role-play in various activities to acquire more money and merit. These activities include trading, mining, exploration, passenger-transportation, bounty-hunting, piracy and assassination.