Massey lives with his son and a few dozen others in a remote, forested encampment in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The group isolated themselves in the rugged mountains shortly after the Observer invasion in October of 2015 and have maintained relative anonymity there until 2036. Massey leads the others in the group as archivist of the history of mankind, since the invasion, a self-assumed mission intended to preserve facts, data and key profiles of those that have served.