pencil: Bryan Hitch

story: Warren Ellis

inks: Paul Neary

colors: Laura DePuy

Authority discovers that the alien spaceship is actually a living being.
In an attempt to kill it, they convince the Carrier to leave Earth's orbit and enter the alien.

pencil: Bryan Hitch

story: Warren Ellis

inks: Paul Neary

colors: Laura DePuy

The Carrier reaches the brain of the alien spaceship and Jenny Sparks uses all her energy to electrocute that gigantic brain.
On December 31, 1999, Jenny Sparks, daughter of the 20th century and its protector, dies after saving the world again.

pencil: Sean Phillips

story: Joe Casey

colors: Wildstorm fx

Spartan, Grifter and Noir track Lord Emp to a Las Vegas casino.
Lord Emp asks Kenyan to kill him.
Kenyan is immortal thanks to Lord Emp and they have been facing each other for over a century.
While searching for Lord Emp, Spartan and Grifter foil a robbery.

pencil: John Cassaday

story: Warren Ellis

colors: David Baron

Flashback to Planetary's past.
Ambrose Chase leads the team, before the arrival of Elijah Snow.
They were sent to stop an experiment created by Dr. Dowling to bring to Earth a being created in a virtual reality.
The spaceship sent by Dowling lands with 4 passengers, instead of 3, but the scientists on board are dead and upon the arrival of Planetary the 4th passenger has disappeared.
Ambrose Chase, the son of one of the surviving subjects from Dowling's Lab Zero, is killed during the mission.
Jakita avenges him by killing his murderer, the creator of the virtual world.