Written specially for students of English, this English Language Teaching (ELT/ESL) eBook is an intermediate-level Macmillan Reader. In this science fiction story, set some time in the future, Varon, a pirate, breaks into the strongroom of the planet Zeron and manages to steal one of the most valuable items in the universe. Then he is trapped, unable to return to his spaceship, until Lucky arrives. But Omega has his own reasons for helping.