In the arid badlands of the Dustpan, death can be bought for the right price. After barely making out of a brutal civil war, the Federal government of the United Colonies finds itself facing secession from within. When a former general that leads a popular rebel group escapes his prison train, the Congressional Senate votes to make a deal with the Institute, the near mythical assassin school somewhere in the Dustpan. They turn loose one of their most deadly instruments: a gunslinger. The fires of war have be reduced to a smolder, but can they be extinguished before the winds pick up and they burn once more?