Travis and Callie's plans to capture ""low-level smuggler"" Strasser turn bad when Strasser recognizes her. Callie is injured, and the crew attempts to keep her alive with a damaged cryonic chamber. The Tulip sets course for Mars in hopes that Callie's estranged father, Janus, has her ""blank"" - a clone kept in stasis, and used for organ replacement.

A Terran terrorist group protesting the ecological disastors that have plagued Earth are suddenly put on the map when thier methods of only targeting buildings and space structures accidently takes lives.

The son of Roan Gerick, a family friend of the Montana family, is killed by Anestha, a new street drug the turns pain into pleasure. Travis hunts for Bliss, the leader of the narcotics ring, against Rudolpho's better judgement.