Richard Fawkes is the traitor's son with a traitor's name. But in the year 2179, such crimes do not go unnoticed. Someone has to be made an example of and, with his father's suicide, the burden falls to Richard. The H.M.T. Foundation has long been a favourite of the New British society for three simple reasons: it punishes criminals. It feeds the people. It protects the innocent. Or so the official story goes. And how does it do that? Well, those convicted of the most evil of crimes are sentenced to death. A slow one. Kept on a farm until you reach maturity at the age of forty and then it's a trip up the hill to the slaughterhouse and the sweet abyss of never opening your eyes to this godforsaken world again.Now things within the Foundation are progressing even further. A drug called Jubilance is being modified in hidden labs to adopt coercion techniques and thus control the livestock population. But people are starting to wake up to it. The terrorist group calling themselves the C.S. are kicking up a fuss. Little does Richard know just how much that will change his life and bring him into a world of guns, fighting, and hacks. All for a rebellion he didn't start. His name is Richard Fawkes, the traitor's son with the traitor's name. But they call him Steel.