Ripper Lee, long time veteran of the televised fight circuits survived the viral Blight which wiped out billions of people around the globe. The intention had been to genetically modify humans to eradicate disease and create useful categories of workers who would fit neatly into a global system for generating ever-increasing wealth. Among the modified survivors, there were an unmodified few, like Ripper. Some unmodified survivors found it hard to scratch a living in the new society, others joined the Rebs, and some like Ripper remained fiercely independent. Vanessa Trent, CEO of Viral Benefits Corp, who had ordered the gene-altering virus to be released, sent out android armies to round up the Rebs and deal with anyone who stepped out of line. The Rebs were determined to recruit Ripper and foil Trent's plan of world domination. Ripper went his own way, until he was trapped into assisting the Rebs and was branded a terrorist by Trent. Once again, he was on the run, hounded by airships full of androids. The only two people who he could have relied on were unlikely to be of much help: the lover who had sworn never to see him again, and his spineless agent.