THE ELEMENT GUARDIANS

In a galaxy far from our own Milky Way, a sunlike star supports an Earthlike planet called Element. This planet has all the fundamentals it needs to provide life as we know it on Earth—water, living matter, oceans and mountains—plus constituents that are far different from our own. Its inhabitants, some as human as Earth’s people, may look physically diverse. Their humanoid figures might change depending on where you’re looking from. For example, a person could look like a frog if seen from another galaxy. Within theirs, however, regardless of their planetary origin, they appear human to observers. As a result, the animal inhabitants have some human capabilities, and any species can communicate with each other via mutual mind-reading abilities. Both Homo sapiens and any other species can also, if a situation demands it, change their appearance. Back on our planet, we would call this transformation “magic”—in other words, something that is not real. This capability, considered impossibility on Earth, is an example of one enormous difference between our home planet and Element. However, something that remains identical on both Earth and Element is the presence of goodness and evil. Good and bad. That these two elements exist on both planets suggests that no matter how vast the universe and its billions of galaxies are, the moral values among its inhabitants are the same.