To you who have scanned this report, further greetings:
Since I, who compiled it, am only a youth, a Guardian only by title,
and hence unable to visualize even approximately either the time of nor
the necessity for the opening of this flask of force, I have no idea
as to the bodily shape or the mental attainments of you, the entity to
whom it has now been made available.
You already know that Civilization is again threatened seriously. You
probably know something of the basic nature of that threat. While
studying this tape you have become informed that the situation is
sufficiently grave to have made it again necessary to force certain
selected minds prematurely into the third-level of Lensmanship.
You have already learned that in ancient time Civilization after
Civilization fell before it could rise much above the level of
barbarism. You know that we and the previous race of Guardians saw to
it that this, OUR Civilization, has not yet fallen. Know now that the
task of your race, so soon to replace us, will be to see to it that it
does not fall.
One of us will become _en rapport_ with you as soon as you have
assimilated the facts, the connotations, and the implications of this
material. Prepare your mind for contact.
Kit Kinnison.