The year is 600,000,000 AD.
As soon as they find new planets that already have life developing past the stage of the typical sea slug, they will automatically drill to the center of the planet and implant a multi-verse frequency modulator. They set it to transport the whole planet into another universe in which everything is the same, except for the fact that the rest of the universe is empty and devoid of any life.
They could go back and bring the planet back to their universe at any time, but seldom have they ever done that.
It was sort of funny, he thought to himself.
