 What is Peter's mission aboard The Avenger?
Then there would remain only the task of blasting the great, shining ship out into the carefully-calculated orbit that would be its home. Out there, away from the muffling, distorting, damnable blanket of atmosphere, away from Earth's inexorable gravitational pull, would be a laboratory such as man had never seen. They have treated us precisely as we, in less enlightened days, might have treated a newly-discovered race of lower animals. Not only our individual lives are threatened, but our existence as a race. Peter took it in fifteen seconds, running, and stumbled to a halt in front of the door marked "Radiation." It was a street scene in the Science City of Manhattan, flooded by the warm spring sunshine.
 To mutate embryos until they come across someone who can fight the aliens.
 To seek a solution to the aliens out in space.  To take the embryos with him and start a new life for humans.  To mutate embryos until they come across someone who can fight the aliens.  To seek out a "superman." Someone who can face the aliens for them.