The rising action also adds another minor conflict to the story:
Many people, like Cyan's father, think that aliens need to be
eliminated. What type of conflict is this?

returning points to main

the sun warms our planet, and with the moon, creates the tides. the moon orbits the earth and in turn, the earth orbits the sun. because they appear to be the same size in the sky, the sun, earth and moon work together to create eclipses. when the moon is directly in between the earth and sun

the power of