Fort Edgar was the name of a small suburban community outside of the Los Angeles area in southern California. It was also the name of a quarantine compound utilized by a secret society known as the Mammonites. The Mammonites used Fort Edgar as a foothold in their goals to suppress the spiritual harmony of the indigenous native population as well as the grass-roots hippie movement of the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the Mammonites abducted a young child named Brother Christopher, whom they believed was destined to usher in an age of enlightenment commonly referred to as the Fifth World. Fearing that such a phenomenon may actually come to pass, they kept Christopher sequestered in a special cell inside the fort, where they consistently monitored him for potential psychic abilities.