scully christopher crockett la cruz is an actor, fortune seeker and adventurer from the long isolated orbital technocratic democracies of circumluna and the bubbles congeries. he lands in what he believes to be canada to reclaim family mining interests only to discover that canada is now north texas and what is left of civilization in north america is ruled by primitive, backslapping, bigger than life anti-intellectual "good ole boys" convinced of their own moral superiority.