In the early days of the Galactic Empire, the great and powerful Emperor Zorgon decreed the creation of Department 42 as a means to further his understanding of the universe.
It began as a small office on planet Zorvath, with a team of five dedicated employees tasked with cataloging the infinite varieties of interdimensional cheese.
The department's early years were marked by great triumphs and tragedies, including the infamous Great Cheese Catastrophe of 3056, in which the department's entire collection of interdimensional cheese was accidentally consumed by a rogue temporal anomaly.
Despite this setback, the department persevered, and today we continue to explore the vast expanse of the cosmos, seeking to catalog every last variety of cheese.