Shamari Winn and Khyla T. Clarke
The Fifth Phase
In outer space, trillions and billions of miles away from our galaxy,within another galaxy that instead had colored planets with aliens of color living amongst them. Within this galaxy of colored planets only held five planets. Each planet is a specific color and the aliens living on it are the same color as the planer and they have only certain natural resources that others don’t. The planets main resources were the yellow aliens, whose main resources were iron. The planet next to them were the purple aliens. Their main resource were diamonds. Next to them were the blue aliens and their main resource was gold and green aside them with oil. Next to them were the orange aliens whose planet didn’t include any main resources whatsoever. All of the planets were in control of their own destinies but at the same time all the planets helped each other thrive. They exchanged resources and were more than willing to help one another because every resource that each planet obtained was needed by another planet. This lead them all into sharing with each other and bringing them together, to unite, and work towards working together in solidarity. They even traveled to one another's planets trading their resources and taking some back to their own planet while also looking for work, and trying to create new partnerships. Orange being the main planet without any resources, also the main aliens who had started in being the first groups to start migrating to other planets to get help and resources while staying there as well to work there and even stay to live there too. There was a very small percentage of them that would migrate from planet to planet. They were still apart of those communities because they were more than welcomed to be there with good intentions of staying there to work, while also staying there to find love, build bonds, and to live. The vice versa for other planets. It was this way for many many years. It was all they had ever known; to help one another and be generous, but now things were changing.
They were not brought together by race or class, but more so brought together by a set of values, morals and beliefs. To come together to build an understanding, community, and partnerships amongst each other. Liberation was amongst them and so was solidarity.
Throughout time miraculously a meteor shower began to pass through the planets of colors Galaxy. The meteor got really close but only damaged the orange aliens planet which resulted in their planet being ruined and completely almost destroyed. Many orange aliens lost their lives to the meteor shower. Their planet was completely polluted of bad airborne chemicals that would make the aliens still living there on the planet go crazy and get extremely sick. The chemicals roaming the planets atmosphere that were making the Orange aliens go crazy was getting too bad for some to bare so they started to flee to other nearby planets because they were becoming extremely low on resources after trying to survive and feed the hungry after the devastating disaster with already barely to none of the resources they needed. As a result of this the orange aliens started to migrate to other planets at an even higher rate than before.The other colored planets had no problem with this at all. In fact the other planets more than willingly gave them more and more of their own resources and welcomed them to their own planets with open arms. But the orange people still just weren’t satisfied, they started to become envious of the other countries because they had all the resources and they were thriving. Even though the other planets helped them so they could eventually thrive again the orange aliens still felt this way because of personal greedy intentions of their own.
An uproar officially started when a well respected orange alien by the name of Elihu. He was one of the many orange aliens who either chose to stay or were forced to stay on planet Orange because of the harsh chemicals their bodies contained leaving them with no choice is but to stay there and continue their lives there in poverty, starvation, low on resources plus things like health care and education within get all their communities. He was forced to stay in Orange when he was a young boy, the age he was when the meteor shower occurred. He grew up without much guidance or any genuine partnerships and the community he grew up in was a place no alien should be living in. The aliens living on that planet that were left there all started to have this hate and animosity towards one another and other planets and were sick of having nothing and felt envious towards the other planets that had things that they didn't possess. Elihu grew up with hate and rage in his heart and one day as an adult decided he wanted to make sure the galaxy knew the pain he himself and his aliens went through. He then began letting other aliens of his own orange community in on his little secret intentions and they started to do the same thing, At first they were completely against the idea because it went against everything they had ever known, they knew it was wrong but Elihu had manipulated them into thinking they deserved it and that they could do better with the resources.Eventually they began STEALING resources from the purplians first and also taking the resources that were willingly given to them already by other planets. They only stole from the purplians since they were the most generous out of all the planets. Elihu and his followers saw the purplians generosity and kindness as weakness and took full advantage of this. They had gold and pathetic souls in his eyes.
The orange aliens had also started to feel a sense of entitlement over the other planets because they had already concord Purple so they felt like nothing could hold them back, thus starting to get ahead of themselves and becoming more greedy. They had been the ones with the most unreliable resources and now they were the ones helping other planets trade off resources by helping work for them but now it was the other way around which caused them to have envy toward the other planets and an even bigger taste for greed. They wanted to be the ones with the most resources, they wanted to not have that entitlement that they believe the other planets had over then had in the past that they never did or at least never abused. They began going Into other planets but mostly they went to the purple planet and started to in some ways invade the purples the purple people’s resources they started to expand into other planets but mostly they went to the purple planet since they had the most resources to offer and because the purple planet had the most resources most aliens migrated there, making it also the most diverse planet and most rich waiting natural resources. But they eventually started to in some ways invade purples the purple peoples resources to imperialize them the other three planets didn’t like that all day had set up a system to where they work together in in solidarity but the orange started to infuse the system that they were progressing in because of the taste for power and their greedy egos to be more and to conquer those they felt had taken advantage of them but actually didn’t. The system was set up for them to succeed but instead they got envious and decided to take over the system making sure everyone else that helped them in their time need all failed because of their capitalistic motives.
The main goal for Elihu and his followers was for the orange planet to become stable again by any means necessary. They knew that what they were doing was wrong but they were benefiting from it. Even though none of the planets took actual advantage of them at all they still felt like they needed to be defense mode and imperialism all of the planets and take all their resources, enslaving all the aliens of color while, sabotaging everyone's day everything while in the process of doing so for unnecessary self profit. Elihu at this point in time is the main ring leader and influencer and is trying to take over more than just Purple, the planet with the most resources coming through and the most aliens there working. He feels like if he was able to conquer the most resorful planet he can now do anything once again. He starts to build an army to help him conquers the rest of the planets but while in the process of gaining all his power he didn't seem to realized how awful he had treated all of the aliens of color. They wanted absolutely nothing to do with him and instead wanted to partake on the actions against overthrowing him and his wicked and twisted powers. He became something like a wizard with the most hate in his heart because he had no one who taught him the proper way of loving your community, loving the aliens in the planets and the aliens ones around. He never learned the importance of working together with those who just care about him. He had nothing but hate in his heart and mostly never learned the importance of just loving and enjoying what he already had in his life instead of overlooking it and only seeing the bad he had in his life.
Elihu started to feel this feeling of regret but he was way too deep into the decisions he decided to make but suddenly he didn't want to go any further. He called off the army he did have and demanded they all stop forcing the aliens the were imperializing to stop working for them. He gave up everything that he had going on in the planets to somehow ask for forgiveness. When he asked the Purplians for their forgiving some rejected but also most were willing to forgive and move forward just as long as he went back to his planet fix thing there, restore the faith he had been hoping to find through stealing everyone's else stuff and also leave them alone too. He decided to do a rinse on the whole planet with all the money he had gained and helped clean planet Orange from all the destruction that the meteor shower caused his childhood to have so much hate and despair in it. None of the planet when to war but instead they decided to make sure everyone was staying in their own planets but could still trade off minimum amounts of their resources. Elihu soon died of overload of chemical he had in his system. He was remembered as a lost soul that had no love in his heart as a child and discrimination he thought he had faced as a child was never explained to him so he just grew up only knowing so little to just hate, greed, and envy because he wasn't given any proper education. The planets of color celebrated his death and also made sure that every child was given an education and also made sure they were taught the importance of accepting everything thing have and to want for nothing while working in solidarity with your community as well as others.