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Eddorians or of the fundamental raison d'etre of the Galactic Patrol—material
which can
never be revealed to any mind not inherently stable at the third level of
stress.
Virgil Samms, then chief of the Triplanetary Service, perceived the general
situation and foresaw the shape of the inevitable. He realized that unless and
until his
organization could secure an identifying symbol which could not be
counterfeited, police
work would remain relatively ineffectual. Tellurian science had done its best in
the
golden meteors of the Service, and its best was not good enough.
Through one Dr. Nels Bergenholm, an Arisian-activated form of human flesh,
Virgil Samms became the first wearer of Arisia's Lens, and during his life he
began the
rigid selection of those worthy of wearing it. For centuries the Patrol grew and
spread. It
became widely known that the Lens was a. perfect telepath, that it glowed with
colored
light only when worn by the individual to whose ego it was attuned, that it
killed any
other living being who attempted to wear it. Whatever his race or shape, any
wearer of
the Lens was accepted as the embodiment of Civilization.
Kimball Kinnison was the first Lensman to realize that the Lens was more
than
an identification and a telepath. He was thus the first Lensman to return to
Arisia to take
the second stage of Lensmanship—the treatment which only an exceptional brain
can
withstand, but which gives the second-stage Lensman any mental power which he
needs and which he can both visualize and control.
Aided by Lensmen Worsel of Velantia and Tregonsee of Rigel IV—the former a
winged reptile, the latter a four-legged, barrel-shaped creature with the sense
of
perception instead of sight—Kimball Kinnison traced and surveyed Boskone's
military
organization in the First Galaxy. He helped plan the attack on Grand Base, the
headquarters of Helmuth, who "spoke for Boskone". By flooding the control dome
of
Grand Base with thionite, that deadly drug native to the peculiar planet Trenco,
he made
it possible for Civilization's Grand Fleet, under the command of Port Admiral
Haynes, to
reduce that base. He, personally, killed Helmuth in hand-to-hand combat.
He was instrumental in the almost-complete destruction of the Overlords of
Delgon; those sadistic, life-eating reptiles who were the first to employ the
hyper-spatial
tube against humanity.
He was wounded more than once; in one of his hospitalizations becoming