introduces a tense scene, where a mysterious figure, Kapitän Mors, confronts a flustered engineer, Reymond, who has sent out a distress call following suspicious foreign dealings. Reymond reveals that dangerous individuals, possibly Americans, are constructing world-carrying machines, with plans to unleash devastation upon Earth. Despite Mors’s insistence on providing protection, Reymond refuses, leading to a fateful outcome. The tension escalates as Mors embarks on a high-stakes journey aboard his splendid airship, the "Meteor," determined to thwart the impending calamity from the Saturn rings, setting the stage for battles and revelations that ensue in the vastness of space. (This is an automatically generated summary.)