paul, father of jack and marc, is the leader of the pro-unity camp, and jack decide to campaign against the rebels. as tension builds and several children start to co-adunate, the rebels' long-laid plans move into action. marc has equipped hundreds of individuals with his ce devices, and his colleagues arm many ships. the rebels decide to demonstrate their power by destroying a planet — molakar: the krondaku planet from which the intervention was staged. billions die in several seconds as the joined minds of the rebels superheat the crust of the planet. a massive wave of metapsychic suffering and grief overwhelms the minds of the entire milieu. the response is not what marc expects. jack, dorothea and his father, paul, decide to confront him peacefully and will not let him take war to the galaxy. marc decides to fight regardless, but the three pacifists call out to all the metapsychics in the galaxy to help join in unity and stop the rebels.