It has been mere months since Viking Wulf Sternhammer returned to the 22nd century with Search/Destroy agent Johnny Alpha, and the legendary partnership they forged is in its infancy. Sternhammer knows nothing of Alpha's past, and is still getting used to the everyday prejudice that mutants suffer at the hands of the norms.

When they are approached on the Doghouse by a grieving parent who lost her daughter in a shuttle explosion and tasked with finding her missing husband, their search will take them to an Earth colony divided by bigotry and tumbling into chaos...