Moon People: An Introduction

Amos was one of the colonists that chose to go without a last name--it was a way to represent the break with the millennia of civilization on earth. It was also a good way to further avoid any kind of pestering from the police--not that there was much police presence on the moon, moon people being so fiercely antigovernment and all.

So, avoiding the police:

Amos sold lunar tires in the lunar state of Franklin. So did John Birch Byerson. JB had been lowering prices like a madman. Amos didn't get how. Amos had made the switch to slaves, and JB hadn't. Amos had his brother Abraham raid a tire manufacturing plant over in Columbus (, Moon), and Birch still bought tires from Goodyear. Amos had been constructing ledgers for John Birch Byerson's Tirerama, based on dumpster-diving-retrieved documents (dumpster-driving services care of Abraham). Dumbass Birch didn't shred anything. Still--JB's tires were about twenty dollars less than Amos's, and freaking JBBT still pulled in more than Amos's Discount Tireyard, and at a profit! Amos slashed prices, and people stayed with JBBT. Amos had his marketing people do massive surveying; the data showed that people just "trusted" John Birch Byerson, for whatever reason. So Amos learned that JB was going on a hiking expedition outside of the oxygen dome over the last weekend in February, and Amos followed JB to the mountain range, and Amos walked up to JB, and JB said "Amos, what are you doing here?" and Amos slowly, but successfully, drove a screwdriver through JB's helmet.

This was the moon.