The Drule Empire continues with its propaganda campaign, telling the people the stories of the planet's impending doom are lies to insight a rebellion. The S.S. Explorer fleet reaches Planet Drule, offering to evacuate all who wish to leave the planet but the Drules refuse them and attack. Professor Page's research discovers the true reason for planet Drule's impeding collapse was the storage of lazon waist beneath the planet's surface. Its escaping containment causing the instability of the magma strata which will soon explode the planet.