Above Morag, Star-Lord, Gamora, and the others looked down at the vast ocean below, confusion written across their faces.
They did not understand what Hawking had come to this abandoned planet for.
Morag had once been a highly advanced planet, but for some unknown reason, it had suddenly been destroyed one day.
The planet's seawater had submerged all its continents, and the Morag Civilization had been wiped out.
Only once every three hundred years would the seawater recede for a few days. At that time, scavengers would fly over in their ships to search through the ruins, finding valuable remnants left behind by the Morag Civilization to sell on the black market.
There were still seven years until Morag's seawater receded again, and its continents remained beneath the deep sea.
"Gamora, you know Thanos has been collecting Infinity Stones, right?"
Hawking asked as he looked at the seawater below.
Gamora thought for a moment, then nodded.
"Indeed. Thanos has always been gathering clues about the Infinity Stones. This time, he cooperated with Ronan because he wanted Ronan to help him find them.
"But I don't know what he wants the Infinity Stones for."
"What else? His idea of cosmic balance, of course."
Hawking explained to them.
"The Infinity Stones were refined from the essences of six singularities that contained infinite energy before the Big Bang. Each one possesses a special ability. They can control the six fundamental attributes of space, time, reality, power, mind, and soul.
"And if all six Infinity Stones are gathered, they can bring enormous influence or change to the entire universe according to the user's will.
"For example, if Thanos wished for half the life in the universe to disappear, then half the life in the universe really would vanish in an instant."
Thanos was called