Corporate Expanse is both the game which led to the creation of From the Cradle and the universe From the Cradle is set in, which is why you see "A Corporate Expanse Saga" at the top of the screen in the header image there.
Corporate Expanse is (was?) an originally-themed science fiction game, set shortly after the year 10,000 galactic standard time. Over the centuries, the multi-national and eventually multi-planetary companies that drove each species' race to the stars grew to the extent that the companies in fact became the government, and the galaxy is now divided more-or-less into thirds: the Galactic Resource Company, primarily run by the Balorim, Periodician Industries, the main haunt of the Twis'rin, and the Universal Corporate Alliance, a conglomeration of smaller companies that banded together to save themselves from certain ruin.
The galaxy was more-or-less entirely under corporate control with one remarkable exception: the star system of Dirom located near the galactic centre, which preserved its independence by being the galaxy's premier source of therium, the only practical fuel for modern warships and an infamously difficult element to synthesise. As no corporation could allow another to control therium and thus control the fuel supply of the universe, the three corporations agreed to respect Dirom's neutrality, though they keep a wary eye upon each other.
Unlike From the Cradle, Corporate Expanse was meant to be a slightly high-brow space opera: no ray guns and Flash Gordons saving buxom alien princesses but regardless a galaxy where ships thundered through the stars, great star battleships fired broadsides at one another at implausibly close range, and strange, mysterious forces of which the galaxy yet knew nothing were at work in the background, making sure that something was always about to happen.
Unfortunately, the idea was really, really big, and it never got finished. In trying to pare it down to a more reasonable size, however, Wilco eventually threw together From the Cradle, and here we are. Still, Wilco has a copy of the Corporate Expanse database, and maybe someday...