Terl does not understand English, and is instead convinced that the Scots are motivated by a promise of pay on project completion. Jonnie persuades the Scots to help him against the Psychlo rule on Earth. Terl and Jonnie travel to Scotland and recruit 83 Scottish youth (including several deliberately selected body doubles for Jonnie), old women, a doctor, and a historian to help with the mining. Terl even forces Jonnie to submit to a learning machine that teaches him about all manner of subjects, to include the Psychlo language. Thereafter, Jonnie is free to move around the mining area. It is surrounded by uranium deposits that make Psychlo mining impossible, so Terl captures Jonnie to mine the gold for him.Īfter a time, Terl captures Jonnie's childhood love Chrissie and her sister, and holds them hostage to ensure Jonnie's continued cooperation. Fearful at the thought of spending several more years on Earth, he decides to make himself a millionaire to escape, by secretly mining a lode of gold in the Rocky Mountains. Terl has been assigned to Earth, and eventually learns that his term has been extended, due to a sexual encounter with a high ranking political officer's daughter before he came to Earth, with no word of relief. It becomes apparent in the later chapters that the Psychlos were originally nonviolent miners, but subjugated by a ruling class to become warlike. The Psychlos have been the dominant species across multiple universes for 100,000 years. Their "breathe-gas" explodes on contact with even trace amounts of radioactive metals, such as uranium. The Psychlos, hairy 9-foot (2.7 m) tall, 1,000-pound sociopaths, originate from a planet (Planet Psychlo) with an atmosphere very different from that of Earth, with a slightly different table of elements. He is captured in the ruins of Denver by Terl, the Psychlo chief of planetary security. Depressed by the death and disease affecting his tribe, due to irradiation by decaying unused nuclear land mines (see Medium Atomic Demolition Munition), 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 warrior of one such tribe, lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. After one thousand years, humanity is an endangered species numbering fewer than 50,000, and reduced to a few tribes in isolated parts of the world, while the Psychlos strip the planet of its mineral wealth. The Psychlos were inadvertently led to Earth by one of NASA's deep space satellites. The possibilities for the future seem limitless, and "gamers" eagerly await the release of advanced consoles and new game titles.In the year AD 3000, Earth has been ruled by an alien race, the Psychlos, for a millennium. The games they play are a unique combination of technology and graphic art, and game developers have continually pushed the limits of design to create exciting new settings and cutting-edge graphics. They still play in their home or dorm room with friends, but increasingly they play online as well. Today, players are boys and girls, men and women, both young and old. The gaming world was once populated primarily by pre-teen and teenage boys, often huddled around televisions in each other's living rooms. In the nearly four decades since the release of the Magnavox Odyssey, home video game consoles have become a significant part of American culture and the industry has grown into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. It all began with Ralph Baer, the "Father of TV Games." His ideas ushered in a new era of electronic entertainment and sparked the home video game revolution.
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