The year is 2106 and the world is slowly rebuilding from a near-apocalyptic breakdown in human society caused by the global crash of cybernetic systems. The Greater Toronto Republic is growing in political and social unrest due to rising crime from and towards cybernetically enhanced citizens, with only the police keeping a thin margin of order. A few months have passed since the events of UCF: TORONTO CYBERCIDE. Led by the enigmatic politician Enoch Chrom, the cybernetics-hating Luddites become a social movement, straining human-cyborg relations to a breaking point. When the Luddites brazenly attack one of the city's largest cybernetic prisons it is up to UCF Marshal Pax and Toronto Detectives Ngami Tsiu and James Johnson to stop them. But there may be more to Chrom's raid than anyone realizes...
—Laszlo Kovacs