William Shepherd is a cynical, near broken detective looking for absolution in a city built atop of the ashes of New York City decades after a massive war. His fierce determination to find who murdered his brother is only equal to his wanting to be left alone, and with no entanglements from the family business; Shepherd Cybernetics, the leading cybernetics corporation in the country. Yet he has one small problem: William is no longer simply human. Augmented with cybernetic implants that help keep him alive after a near fatal accident following the murder of his brother, William is different. He has been “upgraded” and this helps him in his unrelenting search for the truth. Scouring through the digital networks with an artificially intelligent environment named NOVA, Detective William Shepherd searches daily for any piece of information that might give him a clue as to who murdered his brother and why. Along the way, he is partnered with a family relic from a long ago past that was seemingly forgotten; a military first generation Self-Aware-Tactical-Android that stands over a foot taller than himself that has developed several personality quirks from watching too many “historical archives” while being plugged in. With his new partner, William must navigate the seedy underside of the city he works in to find the answers he seeks. Clinging to the hope that one day he will bring peace to his brother’s memory, as well as peace within himself, William realizes he must face his own family past as he confronts the stark reality that nothing is ever as it seems.