Flit joins the crew of the Diva on a secret mission to investigate a colony suspicious of providing support to the Vagan war effort. When their suspicions are confirmed, Flit orders an attack on the conspirators, but his son opposes him fearing that the lives of innocent colonists may be endangered, and Asemu ends up in an impasse between following his father's orders and his own convictions. Grodek got release from his sentence and Flit visits Grodek in a bar.