Galactic Patrol

A gleaming ninety‑story tower of chrome and glass dominates the campus, its top floor buzzing with the final preparations of the elite Lensmen cadets. On graduation day, Captain Kimball Kinnison and his lieutenants lead Class 5 through meticulous inspections of their immaculate uniforms and razor‑sharp equipment before stepping onto the assembly hall’s polished floor. The atmosphere hums with disciplined anticipation as the corps’ band erupts into a throbbing march, and the cadets line up for a test unlike any before.

At the hall’s center looms a massive vertical shaft, a mile‑high void cleared for the daring maneuver. With a silent command transmitted through ultra‑communicators, the five cadets plunge into the abyss, their bodies arrested mid‑fall by a mysterious neutralization of inertia that lets them land without a sound. The doors of the enigmatic Room A swing open as they return, hinting at the unknown challenges that await the newly minted Lensmen.