 Channing is contracted by Interplanetary Transport to find a way of communicating with a spaceship that must be diverted from Venus to avoid being caught in a quarantine.Channing is able to use an electron gun to activate the ship's meteor detector and uses it to send the necessary message in Morse Code.Neurosurgeon-turned-space-pirate Allison "Hellion" Murdoch attacks Venus Equilateral.