Here we see the Excalibur (in red and orange) pursuing two UFOs toward an Alien Base. But three other, different saucers have launched from the base!
The Excalibur crew use Crackler and Torch guns to disable the UFOs, and move past them. But the other saucers fly colored flags and commence firing ... with machine guns!
Doc identifies the signal flags as Royal Navy. Are we fighting space Brits?
The British ships swing wide as a fleet of rockets labelled CCCP come rocketing in. This is, of course, the symbol of the Soviet Union.
Dr. Van Cortlandt clouds men's minds to hide the Excalibur. Excalibur docks with the alien base, while an enormous Soviet rocket heaves into view! The British turn around to the Excalibur's last known position, firing into the Soviet rocket formation.
Claire and Ham jump to the alien base. Ham finds the leader, commands him to obey, and orders all the ships to go to Jupiter. That should get them out of our hair!
Francis uses his Mover power to pull off important tubes on the outside of the giant Soviet rocket. It skids sideways. A man in a leaky rubber space suit climbs out on a rope (yes, a rope) and tries to fix the damage with a hammer. Ah, Soviet engineering.
The human ships are emptied by Claire, although all their crew are still controlled by the Wire. Unfortunately, all the other saucers in the area arrive and start blasting away at the Excalibur! Dex' shields work pretty well until the fuel runs out. George gives a huge heave of electricity and propels the ship back toward Earth, but the incoming saucer fleet opens fire! Only five saucers survive the Excalibur's counterfire, but that's enough to blow holes in the Excalibur from stem to stern! IS ALL LOST?
I guess all is sort of lost. How do you feel about owing the Chairman? Because the battleship YAMATO, reported sunk in Tokyo Bay some weeks ago, is actually now a space battleship. And it blows away the saucers, allowing Excalibur to crash-land in the South Atlantic. She can be repaired, probably -- and this time with more fuel capacity!
Epilogue: There is still an alien base above Russia, manufacturing UFOs. Oh, and our captive alien leader, Semdahl, has plenty to say about the alien invaders.
For one thing, they aren't Martians! They rule the Jupiter system, which has six inhabited moons and a couple of barbaric moons. The invaders themselves are from Io.
They serve Kharg, the Maximum Leader, who in turn serves Volens, their god. Seems every planet has a being which gives magic to its people, and harvests it in return. Ours is known as the Power; Jupiter's is Volens. And Mars, Mercury and Venus each has its own alien caretaker.
Kharg wants to kill the Power, but his ships are swatted out of the sky when they get close; So he wants humans to crew his ships, because although the Power could probably kill them just as easily, it won't, humans being its crop. Therefore Kharg has taken over top Earth minds and is building space ships through the governments of America, Britain and Russia. The other three leading Earth powers, which Semdahl knows as Frawnce, Deutschland, and Osterreich-Ungarn, are controlled by vampires, who cannot survive space travel.
George tries to get Semdahl to switch sides. Once Doc replicates Semdahl's breathing gas, Semdahl seems willing to go along. But ... DARE WE TRUST HIM?
