Dredd resigns in protest when his superiors refuse to pass stricter anti-robot laws to deal with the threat, but when war breaks out he returns to duty. The war claims countless lives, including many of Dredd's fellow Judges, but unexpected help arrives from Walter, an old vending-machine droid who has served the Judges' headquarters for decades. Walter and several other droids remain loyal to humanity and, led by Dredd, are able to form a resistance movement; in time, they discover the 'new order' promised by Kenneth is nothing of the sort, as most droids are subjected to slave labour even more brutal than that dictated by the humans. Dredd confronts Kenneth on the city's weather control centre, where Kenneth falls to his destruction.