Long ago and far away a people who had not known violence in millennia met to consider a major threat looming on the horizon. After long discussion they reached a trembling agreement to accept the unthinkable. With that the watcher groups were born. Their tasks were to monitor a multitude of experiments designed to produce a race of warriors capable of meeting the future threat to the civilized universe By the time this tale unfolds most of those experiments have been unable to produce results that were not total failures. Of the few remaining races only one - an improbable one at that - has,...