'Planet Cathua has a proud history where robots are concerned. Their legendary factories produced the best, the fastest, the most efficient robots in the Galaxy ... but no longer.
'Now they must go cap in hand to neighbouring planets, haggling and bartering for the very robots they used to be so famous for.
'One Cathuan patriot is determined to reverse this embarrassing situation, and Hal Spacejock lands in the middle of his sinister plot ...' (Publication summary)