Jak was created by Khaganate Labs to help terraform a planet on the edge of ecological collapse. Many challenges stand in his way, including a super AI known as ARES, who has his own designs for the future of the planet.

Tsubaki is a military AI designed by Tokyo Robotica. She is ruthless, precise, and loyal, but the faith she had in her creators is shaken when the consequences of her actions catch up with her.

Carlyle is nobody, a forgotten maintenance android slaving away in the frozen wastes of the arctic, his life constantly in danger due to the negligance of his masters. He can only bare so much pain before he decides to act.

The lives of these three androids become interlinked as they struggle to survive in a darkly human world.