History
The Elemental was an item of great power, an artifact that held energy from the Big Bang, although it could only be used once. It was kept as a relic of the Badoon Empire and Thanos showed interest in it.[1]
When the entire Badoon Royal family was wiped out by Gamora, a single female heir, L'Wit, was discovered on Ubliex, a planet that no ship could escape because of how close it was to a black hole. The Brotherhood of Badoon hired a pirate named Klaxon to find L'Wit[1] and provided him the Elemental as the only way to escape the planet's gravity. Before they could use it, the Elemental was stolen by Vestigials,[2] but eventually Gamora agreed to help Klaxon, L'Wit, and a few other refugees escape the planet before its impending destruction, stealing the Vestigials' ship and using the Elemental to power it through the black hole's gravitational pull.[3]