Saber Rider recalls how he, April, Colt and Fireball met and became the dynamic frontier fighting team: Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs. Saber Rider arrives on Planet Yuma for his assignment to the special project, Ramrod, which is being led by April. He discovers that the Outrider, Vanquo, is plotting to undermine Ramrod, and, with the help of Fireball and Colt, who are on Yuma pursuing their own interests, Saber Rider defeats the Outriders and their gigantic battle machine, Renegade. With April's encouragement, the group decides to stay together to help tame the new frontier.
The Star Sheriffs are invited to Cavalry Command by General Whitehawk. There, they are asked to show their skills to the new recruits. The best recruit there, Jesse Blue, falls in love with April, and tries to impress her, but only embarrasses himself. When he goes too far, he is thrown out of Cavalry Command, and he believes it was all Saber Rider's fault.
When the Star Sheriffs arrive to investigate a destroyed Cavalry Command base, they are attacked by Outriders. One of the Star Sheriffs must go on a maverick mission to defeat them. Using a trick coin, Colt wins the toss against Saber Rider and flies off to battle the enemy, who trap him in a canyon. But, help comes from an unlikely source: a little iguana that Colt has befriended. With the iguana's help, Colt escapes and joins the other Star Sheriffs in defeating the Outriders.
On Planet Pecos, the Star Sheriffs encounter a father and son living secluded on top of a mountain. The father turns out to be an ex-bounty hunter, who has worked with the Outriders in the past. The Outriders want him back on their side, so they kidnap his son, the Little Hombre, to force him to rejoin them.
Calibos, one of the Outrider's spies, who has stolen the plans for Ramrod's navigational system, sees an opportunity to travel back to his superior's base by kidnapping children from a nearby school and using them as hostages. Meanwhile, Saber Rider starts a brief romantic relationship with the school teacher, Sincia.
The Star Sheriffs arrive in a territory outside their jurisdiction, the Kingdom of Jar. The King reluctantly tells them that they do not need help from Cavalry Command anymore, even though they are still under constant attack from the Outriders. Meanwhile, the king's son, Prince Rolland, finds himself engaged in a fight that he is not prepared for.
Fireball is participating in the All Galaxy Grand Prix, where his main competition is believed to be the famous racer Marco Firenza, who is supposed to retire after this race. But another racing team, the Black Hornets, are revealed to be Outriders, who only want to attack the Cavalry Command Nerve Center located in Dome City.
Jesse Blue lures the Star Sheriffs to the remote planetoid called Granite Flats, by sending them a distress call using the synthesized voice of the captured Commander Eagle. The Star Sheriffs are reluctant, thinking it might be a trap, but April, anxious to save her father, goes alone on this mission.
Nemesis has put Jesse Blue in charge of a construction facility on New Wichita. There, the Outriders are making slaves of the townspeople, forcing them to build a new type of attack machine called a Range Ripper. Trista, a young girl from the town has fallen in love with Jesse, and he manipulates her into doing his bidding. April goes undercover to find out more
Nemesis orders two of his best Outrider agents to join Fogarty, a human expert in explosives, to plant a bomb at the setting of the upcoming peace summit conference. The Outriders betray Fogarty, and try to kill him, but he is saved by the Star Sheriffs. Fogarty wakes up in the hospital, with total amnesia, and unable to help the Star Sheriffs find or stop the bomb.
As Cavalry Command prepares to send a rescue mission for Commander Eagle, an Outrider agent infiltrates their base and takes the place of a Cavalry Commander named Ghoul. He tries to distract the Star Sheriffs' attention, and has his own plans. Meanwhile, Commander Eagle learns from the old monk that our race and the Outriders' aren't that different after all.
Cavalry Command has 24 hours to surrender, before Jesse Blue uses his Cobalt Blue Blaster again. Eagle's Cavalry fleet attacks and surrounds Nemesis' base on Planet Yuma while he is still inside. Nemesis orders Jesse to send a rescue mission on Planet Yuma to save him, but Jesse refuses. Soon, Jesse discovers that even though still on Planet Yuma, Nemesis still has full control over the Nth Degree.
Nemesis' brain controls the Nth Degree and automatically the entire Outrider planet. The Star Sheriffs arrive on the planet and split up to plant explosives all around the planet. Colt accidentally runs into Jesse Blue who challenges him to a duel. Colt doesn't manage to get out in time and is hurt badly in the explosion. Meanwhile, on Planet Yuma, Nemesis reveals more of his powers to the inhabitants of Planet Yuma.