Zor and his crew make it to a planet with slug creatures and a plants with high energy. as his crew harvests the Flowers, Zor spends time with the native species. One night, the Ruler of the slugs summons Zor from his bed in a dream like encounter where he sleepwalks out of his ship. Thinking he is the one who gave their kind life, she has a psychic bonding encounter with him in which they share their knowledge with each other. the next day Zor's ship is recalled and they leave the planet. On Tirol the citizens are being oppressed by Nimuul to the point Zol can take no more. As Zol prepares to out Nimuul to The Elders, Nimuul has him arrested for treasonous ideas as he has done with the rest of the Tirolian Senate and The Elders, Declaring the Tirolian Republic over and the Tirolian Empire begun.