On
the freezing planet Contraxia, the people are amazed and filled with hope when
they see a light as bright as the sun in the sky. The world awaits while the
Sun Priestesses prepare to meet the new arrivals. The mother ship lands and out
of it emerges Jack of Hearts; he flies around and then bows before the
Priestesses. Commander Varga calls him a half-breed alien whom they have
captured to force to revive their sun. Marcy Kane a/k/a Kaina introduces him as
half-Contraxian and a volunteer to rescue the sun. But no one knows exactly how
to do that. The Survivalists, led by Varga, demand that Jack be sacrificed to
save their world but the Priestesses say that is incompatible with their code
of ethics. They call for a vote by the people who overwhelming reject
sacrificing Jack. Smythe, a Contraxian spy from Earth, assures Varga that one
day they will seize power….
Jack
undergoes a battery of tests to try to learn how his energy can save their sun.
When he and Kaina go for a walk, she shows him his Contraxian mother’s house
and its crystal pillar that contains his family’s history. He touches it and is
filled in seconds with a knowledge of his identity. The Sun Priestesses then
come with some bad news: Jack’s power cannot be extracted from him, only he can
wield the power to save the sun and it may cost him his life. Jack agrees to do
so and Kaina loves him for it. A gang of Survivalists, assuming that no one
would willingly sacrifice his life for another, try to capture Jack and he
fights them off while trying to tell them he has agreed to the mission but they
don’t believe him. He defeats them all and finds Varga and Smythe holding Kaina
prisoner. The armored Varga fights Jack under the same misapprehension. Smythe
comes to believe in Jack’s nobility so he switches plans: if Jack sacrifices himself,
he will be a martyr but if the Survivalists overpower him and appear to force
him onto the suicide mission, they would be seen as the saviors of their world.
Smythe then sprays Jack with Neutro-Mist, which suppresses his powers so that
he is easily knocked out. Smythe then shocks Varga by murdering the Sun
Priestesses. Jack is put on trial and convicted by the populace of the Priestesses’
murder and sentenced to be flown into the sun. Varga confesses to Jack that he
is filled with shame for his people’s crimes against Jack and then he hits the
button launching the ship containing Jack of Hearts toward the dying sun….