In 1999, the North American defense network failed, triggering a nuclear exchange that sent survivors underground. The group that emerged with a plan called itself New Hope, and in exchange for safety and structure it asked people to give up their freedoms. New Hope built SKYNET CITY — a space-station capital engineered for total control, where dissent is identified and eliminated. Jet Hunter has personal reasons for wanting it gone: New Hope killed his parents. A resistance leader who calls himself Mars recruits Jet Hunter and hands him an Uzi, a mission, and a simple objective: find out what New Hope is hiding and help bring it down.