Tomorrow’s meeting will also devote a segment to the biotech creatures we have manufactured to help us create and fully manage the planned Variables. In a few years we will have our Elite Candidates to help in the final design and building phases. We will spare no expense to keep the project on track. Building a structure of this sophistication is an ambitious project during the best of times, and given the current state of the world, we anticipate that implementing phase 1 will take the next several years. The design team for the Maze will be presenting their latest plans to us tomorrow morning at 0900 hours at command center 3. We need to test each subject immediately so we can choose Candidates with the greatest potential to last until the very end. It is far too early to know what percentage of the population meets our needs, but it has become obvious that the number will be small. Those of you in charge of the search parties in the designated Twelve Sectors are to report back to the Council each time a suitable subject is discovered. And to succeed, we must hit the ground running. What I would like to establish, however, is that we can feel hope and pride that we are a part of something that is working to save the human race.

The world has never known such dark times as these, and celebration is far from appropriate.

I would not dare suggest that this is a time for excitement. Welcome, colleagues, to the beginning of the greatest collaborative human effort in the history of our planet. Thomas’s First Memory of the Flare (Maze Runner #2.5)

The Maze Runner Files by James Dashner