The Pearls That Were His Eyes
Beka gets a message from her Uncle Sid, would needed help from appearances in the message, which was three years old. So she decides to go and Trance follows her on the Maru and they both go to Sid, who is actually Sam Profit who is in control of Trans Galactic and going to merge with another trading company. He wants some information from her, that he believes she has, but she refuses and things get bad. They give her flash which makes her energic and tempermental. After it wears off she thinks of a plan and escapes from Sid. On the way back to the Andromeda, she figures out what it was that Sid wanted and then he takes control of the Maru and aims it at a sun, but Beka backed herself up by sending the information to a time account that opens and sends to every newpaper upon her death and exposes him, he gives back control and they make it back to the Andromeda.