Just who are these guys, and why should we care?
In The Beginning . . .

The Lone Gunmen are a trio of conspiracy-hunting guys, a self-appointed Government watchdog group dedicated to cracking open hidden conspiracies and exposing the evil that men do. They formed as a group in May, 1989, when Susanne Modeski arrived at a computer convention, looking for a hacker to get her into a Department of Defense computer system that had data on the secret tests of the Ergotamine-Hystamine gas she  developed as part of a black-ops project. Her quest drew in an unsuspecting, and very law-abiding John Fitzgerald Byers, and subsequently sucked in two rival hackers, Melvin Frohike and Ringo Langly.

The final showdown came in a warehouse at 204 Fells Point Road where they confronted a man known only as Special Agent Fox Mulder's mysterious informant, " Mr. X". Byers, angry at the deceptions, asked "X" why he was doing this to the American people.  "X" gives a very obscure answer and Byers notes that Susanne was right -- the government had, in fact, been involved in a conspiracy to kill his namesake, John F. Kennedy. X's infamous reply, "I heard it was a Lone Gunman," gave birth to the nickname used by our intrepid trio of heroes, and to the title of their newsletter.

The Lone Gunmen have been assisting FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully for many years, and have in recent years also been seen with Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and Special Agent John Doggett, recently assigned to the X Files after Mulder's kidnapping by aliens.

Our Boys have been known to pull off some very sophisticated detection, surveillance and infiltration using low budget methods, and among their current capabilities is the knowledge of how to locate and track those pesky invisible alien ships that have been running around kidnapping people -- including Mulder! They have met Alex Krycek, the one-armed assassin, and his cohort in conspiracy, Marita Covorrubias, although we don't know yet if they'll run into these ambiguous bad guys during the course of their adventures.

The Lone Gunmen are in many ways, old fashioned heroes. They believe in Truth, Justice and the American Way, and do their best to protect individual privacy and human rights, expose conspiracies, tackle international issues, and champion groups like the ACLU and Amnesty International.