Verum – Exercitum ex Nihilo

NT never really learned to keep his head down and mind his own business.

Nathan Tiberius Brooks is called NT by his friends; which is OK because NT does not have many friends. Unless, of course, the Alpha Team is included in the “friends” category. How NT became the de facto leader of a counter-terrorism strike force was more surprising to NT than it was to Alpha Team’s trained warriors.

Jan, Lucinda, Ragnar, and the rest of Alpha Team took an immediate liking to NT when he agreed to lead the fight to stop Morningstar’s plans for population control. “Population control” is a polite euphemism for extermination. Extermination of almost six billion people.

Except a funny thing happened along the way to happy, happy, joy, joy. The Morningstar test subjects turned out to be more than anyone anticipated. More than they expected themselves to be; ever.

Morningstar’s experiments had grown beyond their petri dish and had taken over the laboratory

“Verum – Exercitum ex Nihilo” roughly translates to “Truth. An army from nothing.”