Technology has boomed in the years since Texas became independent. Antigravity's cheap. Weapons shoot all manner of energy. Human modification has become as common as football on a Friday night. Yet, not everyone embraces technology. When a rancher is murdered, Sheriff J.D. Crow calls upon his old-fashioned tracking skills to find the killer. When the trail leads him to a complex conspiracy, J.D. is forced to confront the very core of his beliefs. Doing the right thing has always been straightforward, but now things don't seem so simple. What does it mean to hold hard the line of Justice in an Age of Metal and Men?