The Collector's "Shell Ship" was exceptionally advanced.
Aboard the ship, with its milky-white hull studded with jewel-like crystals, James reached the burning galaxy in just five Earth days. It lay nearly a hundred million light-years across the Milky Way from Knowhere, the place that had evolved from the Celestial's severed head.
Even in an age of space travel with perfected wormhole jumps and Warp Drive technology, most first-class ships would take more than a month by Earth time to reach this extremely remote, desolate extragalactic region.
The Shell Ship broke through the planet's atmosphere, which blazed like a sea of fire. Red, lifeless hills and mountains immediately filled James's view. The land below was covered in reddish and ochre mountains and deserts. He couldn't see a single trace of anything resembling a lake or river, let alone a vast ocean like Earth's.
This planet, called Korbin, must have been extremely dry and arid, or only lifeforms and intelligent civilizations with stranger physiologies could survive here.
The clue to the Infinity Stone that Taneleer Tivan had provided pointed to a mysterious figure known as the "Legend Speaker."
They said the Legend Speaker knew everything, yet no one knew where he came from. Even the Collector, an Elder of the Universe who had lived for who knew how many ages, had never seen his true face.
The Collector had learned of this mysterious figure from Beta Ray Bill, the previous Champion of Sakaar whom Tivan had collected.
Korbin was Beta Ray Bill's homeworld. Before leaving his homeland, he had once met a traveler who seemed like a prophet. The man appeared able to see everyone's past and future, even the secrets hidden in the depths of their hearts. He often told the children of Korbin stories about the Six Infinity Stones as