Fifty years ago, the world went to nuclear hell. At the centre of the chaos was one man, John Brandis, a military commander who pressed the red button himself. Arising from the ashes come The Pure - a group of regenerating soldiers - who take over Terminus, the last surviving city and declare themselves kings. Carter Grey, a former soldier back when there was a society to fight for, has had enough of war. He's returned home to Bareton, to be with his former girlfriend Stacia. Together they serve drinks to the same four or five customers as every other time. Until three lizardmen - humans mutated by the effects of the war - crawl into town, bloody and desperate. Their home town has been attacked, and not just by raider assholes. This attack was military. Carter suspects Brandis is back with a vengeance, and is cleaning house. Teaming up with the lizard Mister Green and a cyborg who owes him a favour, Carter sets off to Terminus - the last standing city, and headquarters to the Pure's base of operations - on a mission of justice... or vengeance.