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That’s the way I pitched Nightstalkers.
When I was flying around with my team in black helicopters, we wondered who the other guys flying around in them were?
Nightstalkers are the elite Special Ops unit that take care of the things that go bump in the night; and worse. They correct the mistakes of scientists. They’re also a little bit crazy and a long way outside the bell curve, and not necessarily on the good end.
The team leader greets each new team member with this speech:
“We are here because the best of intentions can go horribly awry and the worst of intentions can achieve exactly what it sets out to do. It is often the noblest scientific inquiry that can produce the end of us all. We are here because we are the last line of defense when the desire to do right turns into a wrong. We are here because mankind advances through trial and error. Because nothing man does is ever perfect. And we are ultimately here because there are things out there, beyond mankind’s current knowledge level, that man must be guarded against until man can understand those things. We must remember this.”
Eventually the Nightstalkers evolve into the Time Patrol but that’s another story and another series.
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Originally published at https://bobmayer.com.
