Japanese-Americans build an airship with a Peace Ray mounted on it to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet in San Francisco Bay. They use the naval supplies stolen in The Terror in the Navy.
The Continentals shoot down their airship with some help from the Chairman, who is outraged that the plotters raised up zombies from a Japanese graveyard. "Ghosts" (whites) are of no consequence, but Japanese dead belong with their families in the afterlife, not tottering around like beasts!
So the Chairman kills his followers, and explains to the Continentals why he wants to make the human race strong: the Power is alive, and there is another being which is hunting it. The Power has come to many worlds, given their inhabitants powers, and tried to develop enough power to defeat the Predator, but each time it has failed. When the Power flees a world, the Predator eats all the Actives on that world, but that is not enough, and it pursues the Power once more. This time, when the Predator catches up to the Power, the Chairman intends for humanity to drive the Predator off, and save the human race.
Francis and Heinrich think that's a great idea, and want to know how they can help. Later, they suspect the Chairman used his Mouth power to trick them.
Sources: The Chairman's plan is straight out of Hard Magic.
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