The character of Professor Bernard Quatermass is a creation of Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 – 29 October 2006), and is a property owned by BBC. This story is for entertainment purposes only and is not intended to infringe on any copyright.
"Over the decades that I have been burdened with life, I have seen a great many strange things. I fought ammonia-eating monsters over three hundred feet high. I saw a man become a creature capable of absorbing whatever it touched. I was even briefly infected by a Martian consciousness - five million years old - and saw a section of London destroyed in the chaos of telekinetic madness.
"And yet I confess these were only the incidents that I have chosen to reveal. There were other encounters with the myriad alien forces that threatened our nation, our planet and our species. I was reluctant to reveal these other times not due to the horrific nature of them (though this is only part of it, I assure you).
"I confess now, the incidents of 'The Experiment,' and 'The Enemy from Space' and even 'The Pit'...these things are only the tiny things...the merest of trifles. Side-effects of side-effects.
"It was during one such unrecorded incident I was made aware of beings I could not possibly conceive of. Things which transcended dimensions, things so vast in scope that precedent and comparisons were pointless. That if we drew their attention, we could not even begin to defend ourselves. It would be a threat that would make those world wars - those I and millions had experienced and fought in - pale by comparison, a threat greater than those posed by a thousand Napoleons, Attilas, or Hitlers.
"The universe is a vast, dark ocean, and there are things to which the Martians and the Ammonia-Eaters are mere minnows.
"They were just a side-effect of a side-effect, and the thousands of dead or changed were completely irrelevant to the forces capable of casually snuffing out stars.
"I fear when the sharks come."
- Excerpt from the private journal of Bernard Quatermass, 1974.