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The HMS Endeavor has almost finished its 1000-year voyage through the Microverse. Tomorrow Arcturus Rann and Biotron will return to Homeworld (as seen in Micronauts #1). Today, though, they have encountered a Force Nexus, a strange area of space. The ship's sensors indicated life inside it, but according to Biotron, "the rules of physics seemed not to apply." The ship is drawn into the Force Nexus and lands on a planet. Biotron rouses Rann from his hibernation couch. Out on the surface, Biotron is hit by a lasersonic beam. A figure calling himself Galactic Defender tells them to leave his world. Paradise III has kept out "infectious influences" for a million years, and Galactic Defender's mission is to keep it that way. Biotron reports that he appears to be the only life form on the planet. Galactic Defender fires a stun carbine at Rann, who dodges. Rann fires a lasersonic on stun, which cracks Galactic Defender's helmet. He flees. Biotron and Rann follow him to a city. They find him sprawled across an altar in the Church of Science temple. The catacombs hold rows of bodies in capsules. Galactic Defender is dying because of the puncture in his aerobionic helmet. He tells them that, one million years ago, the people of Paradise III created "the best of all possible worlds." To preserve its perfection, they created the Force Nexus to protect them from "impurities." "The ugly, the crippled, all who were imperfect, were liquidated!" They then realized that aging brought imperfection, so everyone went into aerobionic capsules to keep themselves perfect. Only Galactic Defender remained active. The Force Nexus, however, became unstable occasionally, causing earthquakes that cracked the capsules. All of the perfect people of Paradise died long ago, and Galactic Defender joins them. Rann and Biotron return to the Endeavor. "Tomorrow we land on Homeworld!" Rann says. "It'll be good to return to a planet eternally at peace with the rest of the Microverse!"