The (formerly) abandoned City of the High Evolutionary was a project that he had started and was forced to abandon. An evolutionary engine that he had created ran wild and began devolving creatures instead of evolving them. After a time, Moloids discovered the city and began to live there, where they devolved into somewhat more human-looking creatures. The Moloids that lived there eventually stopped having children because even though they had much higher intelligences than normal Moloids, they still were born with normal Moloid looks. Shunned, these children were abandoned beneath the city to live on their own. Eventually, according to the plan of the High Evolutionary, the city began to rise and breached the surface. The inhabitants of the city petitioned the U.S. government to be treated as an independent nation-state within the continental U.S. border, but were denied.[3] The city was occupied by the Council of Reeds, and later became Attilan's protectorate.[citation needed]
