Gabriel Simms has his own cargo transport ship--and four brand-spankin'-new cargo pods that he bought on loan. However, repairs from a hostile run-in with a robot gone haywire leave him short on cash with the bill collectors calling. His fellow trader Aries has a big-money under-the-table job transporting synthmetal off a planet whose star is about to go supernova, but if Gabriel gets caught, the trade syndicate will blacklist him until the heat death of the universe. What's a trader to do?