"David A. Kyle - Lensman 10 - Z- Lensman" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kyle David A)

Guardians,
secretly encouraging them, were the mental forces of the Arisians. In
opposition, seeking
absolute power over all minds and bodies through crime and corruption, were
the
Eddorians, with their infamous chief henchmen, the Eich, masterminding their
conspiracy
of a diabolic counterculture. Civilization was tested with the task of
discovering the real
enemy, not being told of the existence of the Eddorians, while the Eddorians,
in turn, were
brainwashed into ignorance of the existence of the Arisians.
So the Arisians, stressing self-reliance among the maturing races, let them
fight their own
battles. However, Mentor, the supremely wise entity of the Arisians, gave the
elite officers
of the Patrol a quasi-living instrument of telepathy, the Lens. The only other
help offered by
the Guardians was limited to counseling.
Mentor was the unit name of the fusion of the mentalities of four of the
greatest Arisians,
also known as the Molders of Civilization. Each one was concerned with the
development
of one of four extremely different races from four widely separated planets:
Tellus (Earth),
Velantia III, Rigel IV, and Palain VII. Each planet had eventually produced
one exceptional
Lensman, specially trained by Mentor as a Second Stage Lensman. Nadreck, the
most
illustrious Z-Lensman, although not the first Palainian Lensman, was the
genuine genius
who did reach the L2 or Second Stage.
The Molder in whose charge the destiny of Palain VII was placed was called
Brolenteen.
Brolenteen had two tasks to perform simultaneously. Offensively, he had to
encourage the
growth and effectiveness of a meager number of Palainian Lensmen; defensively,
he had
to block the direct intervention of a top Master of the Innermost Circle of
the All-Highest of
Eddore and its vicious Boskonian conspiracy.
When Virgil Samms, the first wearer of the Lens, went to Palain VII to seek
recruits from
the New Thought Club, Brolenteen was, secretly, already there. Samms's minimal
success
in that encounter would have seemed more heartening had he known that
Brolenteen was
subtly helping him. Within a year, five Palainians had visited the mysterious
planet of Arisia
and had been given their Lenses. Among them was Bovreck.