The armies of Shub have come to the planet Loki and the over-extended parliament of the New Republic can only send the legendary hero Jack Random and his loose cannon companion Ruby Journey to do their damndest with the powers they've acquired from the Madness Maze. But when they get to the mining planet, they find the colony engaged in a civil war, with the representative government in the hands of unsavory profiteers who are at war with justifiably aggrieved rebel forces, who have unjustifiably aligned themselves with Shub. Weary to the point of despair with the moral ambiguities with which he is constantly presented, Jack Random takes a dangerous path and begins brandishing his own form of justice, eventually leading to a mortal confrontation with an old and very familiar enemy.