![]() Terl has been busy obfuscating the purpose of the gold mining operation and implementing his plan to ship the human-mined gold back to the Psychlo home planet. Terl blackmails Numph, and is now able to do whatever he wants, effectively negating Numph's power over him. Meanwhile, Terl has finally gained leverage on Numph after discovering he has been stealing company funds. This subterfuge is aided by the aforementioned body doubles, making it appear to Terl's surveillance that the mining operation is the sole priority of the human contingent. Terl does not understand English, and is instead convinced that the Scots are motivated by a promise of pay on project completion.While Jonnie and his Scottish allies mine the gold deposit, they also secretly explore the ruins of humanity to look for uranium that can be weaponized for use against their Psychlo oppressors. Led by Robert the Fox, the Scots agree to help him fight against the Psychlo rule on Earth and rescue Chrissie and Pattie. Jonnie tells the Scots about the evil deeds of Terl, to include how he has imprisoned Jonnie's love and her little sister. Terl and Jonnie travel to where Jonnie recruits eighty-three Scottish people, including several deliberately selected body doubles for Jonnie, older women to perform the cooking and clothes mending, a doctor, a teacher and a historian, to help with the mining. Thereafter, Jonnie is free to move around the mining area. He befriends a Psychlo midget named Ker, who is only 7 feet tall but still possesses the impressive strength of a Psychlo, and is markedly less psychotic than the others.Looking for leverage against Jonnie, Terl captures Jonnie's childhood love Chrissie and her sister, Pattie, who went searching for Jonnie, and holds them hostage to ensure his continued cooperation. It quickly teaches him numerous subjects, including the Psychlo language, by implanting the information directly into Jonnie's brain. It is surrounded by uranium deposits that make Psychlo mining impossible, so Terl captures Jonnie to mine the gold for him.Terl forces Jonnie to submit to a learning machine programmed by a servile race exterminated for going on strike. Fearful at the thought of spending several more years on Earth, Terl decides to make himself a millionaire to escape, by secretly mining a lode of gold in the Rocky Mountains that his planetary scanner drones have recently found. It becomes apparent in the later chapters that the Psychlos were originally nonviolent miners but were subjugated by a ruling class called 'Catrists' to become malicious, sadistic.Terl has been assigned to Earth, and his term has been arbitrarily extended by Numph, the planetary head of mining operations. The Psychlos have been the dominant species across multiple universes for at least 100,000 years. Their 'breathe-gas' explodes on contact with even trace amounts of radioactive material, such as. They originate from Psychlo, a planet with an atmosphere radically different from Earth, located in a different universe with a different set of elements. He is captured in the ruins of by Terl, the Psychlo chief of planetary security.Psychlos stand up to 9 feet (2.7 m) tall and weigh up to 1,000 pounds (450 kg). Depressed by the recent death of his father and both the lethargy and sickness of most of the surviving adults in his tribe, later determined to be caused by radiation leakage from decaying, he leaves his village to explore the lowlands and to disprove the superstitions long held by his people of monsters in those areas. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, a young man in one such tribe, lives in the shadow of the. After one thousand years, humanity is an endangered species numbering fewer than 35,000, and reduced to a few tribes in isolated parts of the world, while the Psychlos strip the planet of its mineral wealth. ![]() The Psychlos discovered a deep space probe with directions and pictures mounted on it and the precious material, gold, that led them straight to Earth. Contents.Synopsis In the year 3000, Earth has been ruled by an alien race, the Psychlos, for a millennium.
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