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Located in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the villagers are the group of people with whom Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, leader of the human rebellion, grew up.

All their lives, the villagers have struggled to survive. Each year there are fewer and fewer people remaining, with the death rate and the birth rate out of balance—death easily the winner.

At a young age Jonnie suspected that there was some problem with the village. There was plenty of food, the wide plains below the peaks were overrun with wild cattle, pigs and bands of horses and the ranges above were alive with deer and goats.

And even an unskilled hunter had no trouble getting food. There was also plenty of water due to the melting snows and streams, and little patches of vegetables would thrive if anybody planted and tended them. No, the problem wasn't food. It was something else. Animals reproduced, but man didn't, at least not to any extent. Even when children were born, they sometimes had only one eye or one lung or one hand and had to be left out in the icy night. Monsters were unwanted things. All life in the village was overpowered by a fear of monsters.

Presumably extending from the harsh living conditions and lack of culture and science, many superstitious legends were established over the years by the villagers, including the following:

"And then there came a day when god was wroth. And wearied he was of the fornicating and pleasure dallying of the people. And he did cause a wondrous cloud to come and everywhere it struck; the anger of god snuffed out the breath and breathing of ninety-nine out of a hundred men. And disaster lay upon the land and plagues and epidemics rolled and smote the unholy, and when it was done the wicked were gone and only the holy and righteous, the true children of the lord, remained upon the stark and bloodied field. But god even then was not sure and so he tested them. He sent monsters upon them to drive them to the hills and secret places, and lo the monsters hunted them and made them less and less until at last all men remaining were the only holy, the only blessed, the only sure righteous upon Earth. Hey man!"

Leaving his village, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler dared to challenge these myths and legends and discover the truth of his ancestry. It was the discoveries he made that spurred him on to form the human rebellion against the alien invaders.

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