The Galactic Patrol is the army and police force of the Civilization that fills two galaxies. Its prime agents are the Lensmen . . . incorruptible, powerfully psionic, ready for anything. They stand between Civilization and the ancient evil of Eddore. The Eddorians infiltrate with drugs, crime and corruption. The Lensmen fight back with everything from blasters to space fleets.

Players take the part of Lensmen, ultra-tech warriors for good from many alien races. Major characters, important planets, weapons, and the Lens itself are described for player and GM use. The "Space Opera Combat System" lets referees quickly moderate space battles to determine who won and what happened to the major characters.

GOOD AND EVIL

Before the creation of the myriad planets of the galazies, two worlds and two races were already ancient--and already locked in a war of extinction. Even Arisia's supreme powers of the mind cannot restrain the Eddorian lust for dominance. Quarter or compromise is impossible. The only possible outcome is complete, utter annihilation.
The prize: the entire universe. The pawns on this final battleground: the young races of the galaxies--young races like humanity.
But pawns can be promoted. The Arisians have forced, eon by eon, a weapon of prodigious power, a hammer of war to smash Eddore and rid the universe of their trandimensional evil.
The Lensmen of the Galactic Patrol.
Eddore, too, has its playing pieces, arrayed in a network of drugs and crime that riddles the galaxies. Their conspiracy has infiltrated every world of Civilization with tentacles of corruption and decay. Their reach is universal, their power all but unstoppable, their ruthlessness and cruelty absolute. Many lives will be lost--Lensmen's lives. But Lensmen are responsible for the defense of Civilization itself. Lensmen always go in.
Such is the Lensman's Load.
Welcome to the Universe of the Lens.
Welcome to total war.