The Story

(Part 1)

Long ago, the Gweiliens of planet Xergiok were naturally curious scientists. Having mastered space travel and resource extraction, they were in search of a self-contained machine that could both mix with their coveted chemical compound “methalaymyte” to essentially end scarcity and create abundance in the Universe when mixed with minimal renewable resources from their planet. This was no job for any ordinary jar or tin. They found on the planet Guzzcon items called “Guzzlers”. As they observed the Guzzlers from afar, they saw that they got their energy by slowly harvesting burnable resources from planets in other systems that did not have life forms detected, not only making them energy efficient but also not doing any immediate harm to life forms around it. The Gweilien abducted one, cloned it, and began utilizing it on their home planet Xergiok to create this fantasized Utopia.

Xergiok now had it all: Near infinite levels of everything it could ever need, thanks to the Guzzlers. The Guzzlers were containers full of methalaymyte, a chemical that creates an abundance of whatever comes its way. Over time, greed took over, and certain Gweiliens of Xergiok wanted control of the Guzzlers. With the Guzzlers beginning to die out and turn on the Gweiliens of Xergiok due to absorbing all of the negativity coming their way and thus, creating an abundance of negativity, Xergiok was no longer the Utopia it had once been for centuries; they had forgotten the hard lessons learned before the Guzzlers had restored their civilization. A Gweilien and his friends watched helplessly while his planet turned to complete ruin. He knew the power the Guzzler held, and that most of Xergiok showed that they did not deserve the Guzzler any longer; it had been ages since he had seen anyone wipe down the tanks, show compassion towards them, etc. One night when the riots had settled and everyone left from the streets, he and his friends saw a Guzzler with graffiti on it and garbage littered around it. The color of the methlamyte was turning black, opposite to its normal gold appearance. They realized Xergiok would never return to the state it was once in. They also knew the Guzzler deserved better than this. Impulsively, they stole the Guzzler. Riding with it in the back of their spaceship, they filled the ship's tank with Alchlemach, a mineral that naturally occurs on Xergiok that provides fuel when burned mixed with the Guzzlers methalaymyte. In hopes that the black methlamyte would continue to create abundance in the state it was in, they left Xergiok in search of a planet who needed the abundance the Guzzler could bring, along with the compassion that could be shown towards such a tremendous blessing. The black methalaymyte created a rocky trip for the Gweiliens, rocking the ship side to side, slowing down and speeding up randomly, etc. “Look at what we’ve done to the Guzzlers” they said regretfully The swaying eventually led them into a galaxy storm. Every space rock imaginable flew towards them, and they somehow dodged each one without a single scratch on their ship. They turned with astonished faces towards the Guzzler whose methlamyte was now turning slowly back to gold upon passing by their home planet, Guzzcon. The Guzzler knew it was headed to a better place. That moment of hope is when the Gweiliens stumbled upon Earth, a planet rich with plant vegetation and blue oceans. From above, Earth looked too good to be true. It was when they got closer they realized the true breadth of Earth’s biggest predicament.

The Gweiliens quickly realized that the aesthetically-pleasing Earth had a monumental gas shortage, and knew they had set out on this journey with the Guzzler for this exact purpose: to help another planet find a way to make their resources at near infinite levels to create peace and a blissful environment such as things were on Xergiok.

Are we to trust that the Gweiliens won’t follow suit in Xergiok’s exploitative, shameful ways? Who’s to say Earth won’t do the same? Will they help expecting nothing in return? What reassurance do we on Earth have that these… creatures we’ve only *tried* to depict in movies are actually now here to help *us*?