Face and Kell prepare to blast their way out of the building to escape.  Much of the team rejoins them (leaving behind one member to continue the study) and they make a treacherous escape.  Viqi returns to find the pod gone, but the food left behind along with a note from the Face saying they figured she would need it more than they did.

The Jedi follow Nyax and destroy several coralskippers in the process using their enhanced Force abilities.  They finally track him down and Tahiri hopes to take the lead since Nyax may have trouble sensing her because she is part Vong.  Using a large boulder, she slams it into Nyax breaking his bones and causing him to fall deep into a pit killing him.  The group is contacted by Face and they pick them up and escape the planet.

As Viqi watches the escape ship fly away, Denua Ku enters the room.  Rather than face death at his hands, she simply jumps out the window.

The Special Forces Group returns to Borleias and Luke is greeted warmly (surprisingly) by Kyp Durron.  Han and Leia are also there and they all do their best to support Jaina, who now appears to be more in balance with the Force.

During a meeting, Wedge reveals to everyone about the Star Lancer hoax that he has been running to trick the Yuuzhan Vong into believing they had a super weapon that could destroy a worldship.  He hopes to trick the Vong and use the diversion to attack them in others ways as well as get everyone safely off Borleias.

As the lesser ships engage the coralskippers, all the elite squadrons prepare for another mission.  Wedge refers to it as The Emperor’s Spear!

Czulkang Lah explains his own plan for deception to Harrar.  The main attacking squadron will not be controlled by the yammosk, so any New Republic disruptions will be ineffective.  Victory, he says, it within their grasp!  As the battle progresses, however, he begins to realize that the intelligence he received from the Peace Brigade may not be entirely accurate.

Charat Kraal leads an easily successful attack on the pipe fighter diversions and also begins to wonder if something has is amiss with the plan.  Jaina’s ship was in the area, but has disappeared.

The Lusankya, a super star destroyer, is being crewed by one pilot, Eldo Davip, who takes the ship into hyperspace before being stopped by a dovin basal.   It is being protected by Jaina and the Twin Suns and is in sight of the worldship.  Although it has no weapons firing, Czulkang Lah realizes, too late, that ship is going to ram them. Jaina and her ships are attempting to distract and protect Lusankya to buy it time to do just that.

Charat Kraal believes he is hot on Jaina’s tail, while in reality he is following a decoy missile (that he can't physically see because his ship does the seeing for him).  He simply believes that she is hoping to claim all the glory for herself, as any goddess would.  Harrar wants to join the pursuit when he sees two ships chasing Jaina disappear.  Kraal believes he has Jaina trapped by a dovin basil, but at the last minute the missile does a 180 and destroys him.

Realizing the end is near; Czulkang Lah contacts his son and tells him that although this may seem like a victory, soon he will be dead.  After leaving Tsavong Lah confused by his transmission, the Lusankya rams the worldship.

Luke and Mara look on as the worldship is completely destroyed and Tsavong Lah contemplates what this means for the Yuuzhan Vong.