The smiling android female on the saucer terminal's video screen said, "Would you like to be immortal? Would you like to be rich? Would you like to travel the galaxy? You can, you know. Go on-line, fill out Mincom's new EZ employment form, and become part of our management team. We will provide everything, including your own, custom-fitted android body."The smiling face was very convincing. Yeah, thought Max Mars, convincing. Be immortal. Get a new body and be guaranteed a trip to the most desolate planets in the universe, to mine heavy ice for four Earth years with just enough down-time to recharge your batteries.But Mars wasn't too concerned for the humans who fell for that old ploy. He had problems of his own. He was low on cash, so he had taken a job he normally would have turned down. Just travel to the Rim, to planet Kalos, and find a rich man's relatives. They had been missing-only seven years.