Sergeant Nate Slaughterhouse is a veteran of many bloody wars fought on alien planets but, after being mortally wounded on the battlefield the only way to save his life is to cybernetically reconstruct his body turning him into more machine than man - a mandroid! Discharged from the army, Nate returns to Mega-City One struggling to deal with his new existence. When his family are subject to a vicious attack his bitterness turns to anger and he takes to the streets to dispense brutal vigilante justice. But there's room for only one law in the Big Meg... and Dredd's on the case!