A heavily disguised Augur (Richard Chevolleau) met an old MIT roommate named Harry Bookman (Jeffery Smith) who had hired Augur to work out complicated mathematical equations. Harry admitted he had been using Augurs formulae on a huge project for the Taelons, which would alter interdimensional space fields. Augur was furious at Harry's complicity with the Taelons and started to leave when Harry suddenly started to shimmer and dissolve before him. As he pleaded with Augur to save him, Harry explained that he accidentally absorbed a shard of ID space during an experiment. A huge energy ripple sucked Harry into a time/space rift, his global communicator dropped to the ground as he disappeared. Augur was then summoned to meet the mysterious person behind the Taelon project.

Augur hurried to his house to try to contact Captain Captain Lili Marquette (Lisa Howard) and Major Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock), who were incommunicado in a meeting on the mothership. Leaving his coordinates with his Lili holograph, Augur headed off to his rendezvous in a seedy Washington neighborhood. A white stretch limousine pulled up and a beautiful woman named Beverly Wu (Francoise Yip) invited Augur inside. The mysterious woman informed Augur she wanted to hire him for her high-tech weapons company, and whisked him off through her private portal to inspect a test site. Meanwhile, Liam arrived at Augur's with his fellow Resistance member Julia (Janet Kidder), and learned that Augur had disappeared with an unknown woman. In fact, Beverly had transported Augur all the way to Antarctica, to reveal the Taelons' secret weapons project: a huge underground cannon capable of launching an immense ball of magma from the center of the Earth into ID space.

On board the mothership, Zo'or (Anita La Selva) went to Da'an (Leni Parker) to tell him the Taelons' last engagement with the Jaridians had ended badly and their forces were in full retreat. Zo'or announced that he wanted to activate the Forge Project, Beverly Wu's Antarctic weapons installation, to strike at the Jaridians while they regroup. Da'an was against using Earth as a base of attack against the Jaridians, but Zo'or ignored his objections and took control of the project. Liam and Lili tracked down Jonathan Doors (David Hemblen) on the presidential campaign trail to ask for his help in finding Augur. Doors identified Beverly Wu from video surveillance tapes, and warned them that Augur was in big trouble if he was involved with the Forge Project. But Augur was already working alongside Beverly to breach ID Space, and after the exhilaration of a big breakthrough, ended up in bed with her.

Still trying to find Augur, Liam told Da'an a friend may be involved in the Forge Project, but Da'an remained willfully obtuse, and would reveal nothing.

At the South Pole, Beverly decided to try a full power test, despite Augur's reservations. When the cannon fired its load of magma it created a huge tear in ID space, which exploded into the research station, killing a technician. Augur was growing more concerned about the project, but Beverly convinced him to stay on and perfect her weapons trials. Liam finally traced Augur to the facility, and arrived via portal. Agent Ron Sandoval (Von Flores) was also at the site, doing a security sweep. Liam snuck into a lab where he finally found Augur. Augur gave Liam the background on the Forge Project's scientific risks, and the likelihood of a lethal Jaridian response. He also revealed that Da'an had been in charge of the weapon's initial development. Liam escaped back to the mothership, now positioned above Antarctica, where he confronted Da'an, and tried to warn him about the dangers of the Forge Project. But Da'an only threw Liam's Resistance activities back in his face, and refused to intercede.

Taking matters into their own hands, the Resistance prepared a strike team lead by Julia to infiltrate the weapons facility. But Beverly had already given the order to fire the magma cannon at the Jaridian forces repeatedly, which ripped apart interdimensional space, creating a wormhole leading straight to the Jaridians. As the Resistance troops took over the control bridge, Augur struggled to mend the space rift, which sent a shock wave exploding onto the bridge. The blast destroyed equipment and wrought havoc, killing multiple crewmembers. Augur rushed to help Beverly, who had been crushed under a metal girder. As she died in his arms he confessed his love for her, but she was full of hate, cursing him for destroying her work.

Above the facility, the mothership prepared to flee into space because a Jaridian warship had entered the wormhole and was approaching Earth. In a last-ditch effort, Da'an and Liam boarded their shuttle and flew up to head off the Jaridians, firing on their menacing cruiser. After taking a hit, Da'an and Liam jettisoned their fusion matrix, and tricked the Jaridians into blasting the engine, creating a massive energy explosion. The ID tunnel finally collapsed on itself and closed the wormhole, sealing off the Jaridians. Earth was out of immediate danger, until the Jaridians discover how to cross interdimensional space to answer the attack.

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