Less than a year after the Justice incident, news breaks that a Gear has been found functioning normally — no damage, no abnormalities, no civilian casualties despite all attempts to destroy it. The public, still raw from a century of war with Gears, panics at the idea of another self-reliant entity like Justice emerging. Anti-Gear sentiment reaches its highest point in years, and a bounty is announced: 500,000 World Dollars for whoever brings about the demise of this particular Gear.