The Lost Tribe, also called "the waiting ones," are a tribe comprised of young adults, teens, tweens, and toddlers who survive on their own in a desert oasis. They represent the lost and abandoned innocence of the world, neglected by the leaders and heroes who have destroyed it. This tribe, although of mixed sexes, bears a strong resemblence to the Lost Boys of Peter Pan and their never-dying quest to live in NeverLand.

BiographyEdit

The Lost Tribe is lead by an alpha male -- Slake -- and an alpha female -- Savannah Nix.

Prior to the arrival of Max, whom they believe to be Captain Walker, the tribe is a cohesive group of hunters, gatherers, guardians, and little ones.

However, once Max hears the story and reveals to the tribe that he isn't Captain Walker a division in the tribe emerges. It then splinters into two distinct groups: those who want to leave and find Tomorrow-morrow Land, lead by Savannah, and those who want to stay with Max in the oasis.

The Tribe Who LeftEdit

Savannah Nix, obviously stubborn and hard-headed, leads her group into the wastelands despite what Max tells her. Her group consisted of:

• Mr. Skyfish
• Gekko
• Scrooloose
• Anna Goanna
• Eddie
• Cusha, the pregnant girl
• Tubba Tintye
• Finn McCoo

When Max finds them in the desert they are being swallowed alive by the shifting sands. In fact one of Savannah's tribe is lost, before Max can rescue them.

From this point on their best hope of survival is to return to the rotting cesspool that is Bartertown. Max leads the little tribe to the town where the kids sneak in through waste tunnels. Therein they set Master free, because of his intellect they feel he could help re-build civilization. They also set Pig Killer free and together the gang commandeers a train and escapes Bartertown.

Pursued by Aunty Entity, Ironbar, and the rest of her minions, Max and the kid-tribe fend off the barbarians long enough to meet up with Jedediah, jalopy pilot and man who robbed Max in the beginning. Max essentially intimidates Jedediah into piloting them out of harm's way. However, the plane is over-loaded and must jettison items of junk in order to take off . . . including Max, who actually sacrifices himself in order for the plane to take off.

Jedediah then flies Master and the younlings into the heart of a devastated Sydney, where, presumably, the tribe re-builds society, as we see at the end of the trilogy.

Tribal LifeEdit

Like pretty much every human being left alive after Armageddon the Lost Tribe has scavenged bits and pieces from the old life. To a person they wear rags as clothing, enhanced by natural things such as furs. Many of their tools and weapons are made of spears and sticks (staffs.) Some examples of the items they have recovered include a Buggs Bunny doll and a vinyl record containing French lessons.

Like their physical appearance their mental aptitude is derived from bits and pieces of the old life as well. Presumably, Savannah and Slake, being the oldest, have passed on what scraps of information they have left, that memory serves, as this tribe of "waiting ones" has been waiting for 20 years. The term "pox-eclipse," for example, is the word "Apocalypse" that has been tainted through immature memory and an unformulated knowledge of the term. In fact much of their language has evolved in this manner.