“This isn’t your usual job. And the things we do aren’t usual, either. But they’re important, and they have to be done. In our line of work, you learn to expect the unexpected. And you have to prepare for—well, if not for all eventualities, then as many of them as possible. When you’re dealing with technologies and phenomena never before encountered by humankind, you’ll come across things that no amount of precautions can ever truly prepare you for. So you do what you can. You patch up your vehicle, lump a bunch of contraptions on it in the hope they’ll keep you safe, and, most importantly, remind yourself just why it is that you got into this line of work anyway. And then, dear friends, it’s once more unto the breach we go…”