In the Badger, Dirk feels like he is cooking alive. Then, the chapter skips to a nearby island, where the Odyssey engineers are watching the rocket takeoff. One of them notices that the rocket begins to oscillate beyond the norm. In Kang's ship, the engineers also observe the excess oscillation and discover that the rocket deviating 16° before it was launched. Following the rocket, the reader learns that Dirk's successful attempt to tilt the platform, along with the villains'.....
