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Galactic Patrol (Unabridged)
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1. Graduation
CHAPTER 2. In Command
CHAPTER 3. In the Lifeboats
CHAPTER 4. Escape
CHAPTER 5. Worsel to the Rescue
CHAPTER 6. Delgonian Hypnotism
CHAPTER 7. The Passing of the Overlords
CHAPTER 8. The Quarry Strikes Back
CHAPTER 9. Breakdown
CHAPTER 10. Trenco
CHAPTER 11. Grand Base
CHAPTER 12. Kinnison Brings Home the Bacon
CHAPTER 13. Maulers Afloat
CHAPTER 14. Unattached
CHAPTER 15. The Decoy
CHAPTER 16. Kinnison Meets the Wheelmen
CHAPTER 17. Nothing Serious at All
CHAPTER 18. Advanced Training
CHAPTER 19. Judge, Jury, and Executioner
CHAPTER 20. Mac Is a Bone of Contention
CHAPTER 21. The Second Line
CHAPTER 22. Preparing for the Test
CHAPTER 23. Tregonsee Turns Zwilnik
CHAPTER 24. Kinnison Bores from Within
E. E. Smith
CHAPTER 2: In Command
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“It is necessary to consider the history and background of the Patrol in order to bring out clearly the necessity for such care in the selection of its personnel. You are all familiar with it, but probably very few of you have thought of it in that connection. The Patrol is of course an outgrowth of the old Planetary Police systems; and, until its development, law enforcement always lagged behind law violation. Thus, in the old days following the invention of the automobile, state troopers could not cross state lines. Then when the National Police finally took charge, they could not follow the rocket-equipped criminals across the national boundaries.
“Still later, when interplanetary flight became a commonplace, the Planetary Police were at the same old disadvantage. They had no authority off their own worlds, while the public enemies flitted unhampered from planet to planet. And finally, with the invention of the inertialess drive and the consequent traffic between the worlds of many solar systems, crime became so rampant, so utterly uncontrollable, that it threatened the very foundations of Civilization. A man could perpetrate any crime imaginable without fear of consequences, for in an hour he could be so far away from the scene as to be completely beyond the reach of the law.
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