 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. He could see, too, the level on level of laboratories and storerooms that filled its interlocking segments; the meteor deflectors, the air renewal system, the mighty engines at the stern—all the children of his brain. 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. NO COMMUNICATION FROM ANTARCTICA IN 6 HOURS STRANGE FORCE DEFLECTS PLANES FROM SAHARA AREA WORLD POLICE MOBILIZING The item below the last one said: Pacifica, June 7—The World Police are mobilizing, for the first time in fifty years. They have treated us precisely as we, in less enlightened days, might have treated a newly-discovered race of lower animals. "I have no fear that the people of Earth will fail to meet this challenge, for there is no alternative. 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. This isn't like a war, where the noncombatants' morale has to be kept up. There aren't going to be any noncombatants, this time.
 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.