Dark, yes. Depressing, no.
Littered throughout MT are scattered resources of hope.
For some it lies within restoring the banner, others want to maintain honour, others just to survive.
It is a Rebellion, in which, everyone is called undertake a soul searching exercise and realize their actions may have consequences of a galactic proportion.
Travel between for trade & profit ducking fleets, blockades and armies in between. Are you a blockade runner or just a smuggler...but even a lowly smuggler can be called up to a higher calling.
Whilst, in pervious eras, soldiers of fortune merely fought as pawns in struggles between nobles and corporations whilst the Imperium merely yawned. Now, in the Rebellion, people are called up to be real soldiers defending hearth and home.
Aliens were held in check by a delicate balance of powers in earlier times, now that balance is shattered, who will be there to stop the genocide.
It is indeed a universe gone mad. But is your job to set it right. To hold candle, light the torch, keep the brightness of civilization alive against the onslaught of the darkness.
About the quality of CD ROM...yes, hopefully Marc will send you a new one when it get re-released as a better quality product.