To rectify this, a plan was put into place that involved going back in time and taking the planet from modern-day humans. (' The Boy Must Live')Д«y the year 2609, the Observers, having lacked the necessary emotional intelligence to control their advancements, ruined the planet. Those anomalies had their aging process halted and were scheduled for extermination. However, every so often, progenies would become mutated. Progenies were grown at accelerated rates. Observers were grown in tanks by using the DNA of designated donors, making females and sexual reproduction unnecessary. Over many years, humans enhanced in this manner, the Observers, populated the Earth. They discovered that they could drastically enhance human intelligence and rational thinking, albeit by overwriting the region's of the brain used for emotional processing. Scientists in Oslo, Norway, were experimenting with the human brain in that year. Observers are humans that were created in 2167. Like other humans, they need to eat, but they prefer extremely flavored foods. While observing, they occasionally write in small notebooks by using an unknown language. They are stoic, calm, and monotone and have a way of talking that can be considered strange for normal humans. Other common traits are their pale skin, their baldness, and missing eyebrows. All Observers wear black suits, usually accompanied by black fedoras.

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