The MacMurchaids and their group work on searching for facilities which the trickster faction might control. They determine that at least one on Lunar Sister might be such a facility and there are many on Brother Mars. Before they investigate any of these sites they must prepare and gather everything they might need. Since a number of previous incidents happened mainly on or near Mars, then that is where they must head to first. The group has a meeting before everyone at Valhalla gets ready to leave. During this meeting Robert announces that he has come up with a name for this ever-growing group.

It is Valhalla’s Vernean Lunatics or VVL to which he explains the reasoning behind the name. Robert has all the other shuttles left before his family’s shuttle departs from Valhalla. He and his family agree that knowing the faction’s history that they may have attack vessels waiting to either capture the MacMurchaids or kill them. As expected after the halfway point, faction vessels attempt their attacks, but between Robert’s piloting and Troy’s targeting those vessels’ thrusters the family is safe and the faction vessels are disabled. After several events on Mars, a number of facilities appear to be either destroyed or disabled. Unfortunately, one facility is home for a Mars colonist settlement. The members of the VVL go into rescue mode to save as many colonists as possible and call Mars agencies to assist.

The team later found some of the events were ruses to convince the Mars council and everyone else to think that the trickster faction was finished. Fortunately for Robert decided it would be best for everyone including the colonists to make a request in front of the Mars council. Robert and his family jump into action and capture the faction leadership thus saving the council. Robert repeated his request to the council to aid the colonists from the facility, and the council approves. A peace has come, but for the MacMurchaids they do know they still have work to do.