Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence.

Romance blooms between the two as Cowboy makes arrangements with an old colleague named Reno to try to take off some of their cargo to give them spending money.

Sarah attempts to betray Cowboy and his people but has a last minute change of heart that results in her being barely able to escape with the help of Reno, the deceased smuggler surviving inside the internet as an AI.

Cowboy and a monstrous TP executive, Roon, inflict immense damage on the company's finances via stock manipulation but cannot do enough to overthrow its current leader, Couceiro.

Cowboy sets up a last ditch plan to shoot down a space ship carrying medical supplies that will restore TP's stock value.