Before the War.Inaho successfully revives Asseylum in the shower room using CPR and a defibrillator, but Rayet grabs Magbaredge's pistol and holds everyone in the shower hostage. Rayet blames Asseylum for being able to integrate into the UFE while she and her father were outcasts, before turning the gun on herself. However, Inaho disarms her, offering her another chance to fight the Martians. Magbaredge throws Rayet in the brig, then goes off to privately watch Marito's confession in Yagarai's lab. Meanwhile, Saazbaum reveals to Slaine that the Vers Empire convinced their people to attack Earth in the First Earth-Mars War to distract them from their own chronic problems with producing sufficient anounts of food and water on an environmentally hostile Mars. Saazbaum and his wife, Viscountess Orleans, joined the attack on Earth at Tanegashima, but Orleans and her unborn child were killed after her Kataphrakt "Deucalion" was crushed by falling pieces of Moon debris from Heaven's Fall. Back on Earth, the Deucalion finally arrives at UFE headquarters in Novosibirsk, Russia, and Asseylum tries to broadcast her message calling for a ceasefire. However, Saazbaum tells Slaine that the satellite base on the broken Moon is staffed by his allies, such Asseylum's message will never reach Mars. Saazbaum then offers Slaine two choices: stay and fight with him (in Cruhteo's recovered Kataphrakt "Tharsis"), or escape to Earth and be treated as an enemy.