ESCorp

The ES Corporation (the ESCorp) is the main organization that rules over the Zonkerian system. It has prisoners (players) roaming throughout the universe mining minerals and other particles. Your job in the ESCorp, as a miner, is to find your home planet again and obtain freedom.

Prologue
The main page on Alphabounce has an 'Introduction' link. When you click on this, a brief summary of the game appears:

Year 16536, the intergalactic empire prisons are full of prisoners serving life sentences.

This sophisticated incarceration system requires the use of so many resources that prisoners are obligated to work for the prison and those who complain are eliminated.

Among the different jobs sourced to the prisoners, the single most dangerous and unwanted job allows the prisoner to obtain freedom.

This job is called galactic miner.

These volunteers are chained to mining envelopes, inter-stellar spaceships containing enough technology to destroy space parasites and to extract rare minerals.

These envelopes are then launched through the infinite vacuum of space where prisoners find themselves completely isolated to perform their mining tasks with only the rare encounter with E.T. sellers and the noise of the inter-prisoner communication channels to keep them company.

What Is The Point Of This Game?
According to the introduction, you are an intergalactic miner that are imprisoned to life sentences. You are looking to obtain freedom by doing the hardest jobs, missions, and tasks to obtain freedom. You're chained to a mining envelope. An envelope is the 'pad' that the drilling ball bounces on to break the conglomerates.

Game-wise, you're looking to find all of the pieces of the PID Map and locate the coordinates to the planet Terre, which is French for Earth. Then you truly obtain your freedom.