Once the revered leader of the gang Bison, a sudden encounter with an elite Blondie, Iason Mink, forced Riki to abandon everything he had cultivated. Three years ago, a boy named Riki disappeared from the slums of Ceres. They are known as 'mongrels,' and most cannot progress out of the slums. However, the darker-haired humans live out their lives in the golden 'pleasure city' of Midas and its outlying slum Ceres. This society is run by the AI supercomputer known as Jupiter and its governing board of perfect blondes, referred to as Blondies, living in the capital city of Tanagura. On the planet Amoi, a person's status is primarily dictated by the color of their hair.