By order of the Council of Ascendants and approved of by the Chief, it is decided that the Day of Resurrection is due on Earth, despite the protestations of Etheriel, a junior Seraph with responsibility for the world.
Franz Seraph Freiherr von Pfistermeister was born on 14 December 1820 in Amberg, Germany.
On 30 April, Lt. Jewell, captain of the submarine Seraph, read the 39th Psalm and Michael's body was gently pushed into the sea where the tide would bring it ashore off Huelva on the Spanish Atlantic coast.
Different dialogue appeared in the American print that had much less of the opening Parliamentary satire and the word "Biggles" is replaced by "Batman" when Seraph is talking of his excitement at visiting Secret Service headquarters.
However, since the Helix name was taken by another band, they were forced to rename themselves Zeraphine – taken from the Hebrew Bible’s concepts of the seraph (or seraphim), a class of angel in traditional Judaism and Orthodox Christianity.