Maxim, Dawn, and the Corebots flee their home as they are pursued by the ruthless Novas. Maxim is an idealistic Nova who, along with his people, yearns to resolve the corruption in his society-a corruption that has largely originated from the Corebots. Over time, however, he begins to see that his fellow Novas employ the very same concepts of unfairness and corruption to achieve their goals. As tensions rise between the two groups, Maxim finds himself struggling to choose between his allegiance to his people and his dawning realization that the Corebots are not the boogeymen that the Novas have made them out to be.

A group of homosexual teenagers are sent to a "Christian counselor", who believes that reparative therapy is the cure for their "disease". When that inevitably fails he turns to the Good Book: "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."