A landing party from a foreign world touched down on a devastated Earth. The star travelers built a city-state and soon seized power on the planet, pushing the race of populators into a reservation—former humans, now radiation mutants. The populators dream of restoring their former greatness and kidnap the child of the head of the alien colony, planning to replace him with their leader’s son. With him are tied all their hopes for a return to lost positions—it’s only a matter of waiting for him to grow up…