Eliana never expected to wind up in this particular facility. She hails from the planet of Imperia, the capital of the now intergalactic Deminutian Consortium. She was always somewhat of a prodigy among her people, for all that she was legally considered a dwarf which led to a lot of others looking down on her research. But nevertheless, Eliana proved them all wrong. With her groundbreaking genetic research, she was able to modify the native creature Puffsprites to produce a powerful, nearly universal neurotoxin and secrete it in their saliva.

She bred massive colonies of this small, seemingly harmless creature. Around this time other Deminutian researchers had invented wormhole travel, and so Eliana took her army of fluffy, toxic almost-Deminutians to the farthest reaches of the galaxy – then the universe - reducing hundreds of great alien civilizations to mindless drones. See, this neurotoxin, while a full dose could kill even the largest creatures they ever encountered, repeated smaller doses would gradually tame even the most hostile of creatures and leave them as docile as dormice.

When she returned back to Imperia, the Grand Emperor himself was there to welcome her back. He bestowed titles upon her, giving her large holdings of fertile land, (Deminutia was, you see, still a feudal society despite their massive technological prowess) the title of Grand Duchess, and two appointments to his cabinet, as his Imperial Minister of Intergalactic Affairs (well, obviously, you’d want the one who controlled the neurotoxin to be firmly on your side and in charge of managing the people she’d brainwashed!) and his Supreme Doctor of Medical Intervention.

A few years later, after Deminutia had become a solidly intergalactic power, the still-barely-adolescent (for Deminutians live for hundreds, or even upwards of a thousand, years) Eliana was given word of a rich land full of people. She boarded her space pod, loaded her army of Puffsprites into other pods, and was launched towards Earth. But something went wrong in the wormholes, her other pods were blown away. She appeared… in the middle of APTLLFTS, with only Aeona, her personal companion, and no good explanation for what had happened.

But here she has remained. She could always have Aeona (the “queen” of the flight of Puffsprites, and therefore the queen of all the enslaved people) call the armies of ten thousand other races down on Earth to free her, but for now, she remains entertained by this hilariously sorrowful excuse for a laboratory.

Aeona is a puffsprite, a small, barely-humanoid creature. They stand about half an inch tall when full grown, are translucent white in appearance and the entirety of their bodies phosphoresce blue at night. Puffsprites have six arms (well, four “arms” and two “legs” but the distinction is primarily in function, rather than form), and pale faces devoid of any features save for a tiny mouth with a row of fangs and two massive, glowy blue eyes. In lieu of hair they sprout long tendrils reminiscent of the wisps on cotton fluffs that allow them to launch themselves through the air and “swim” like jellyfish. They are sentient, but not exactly sapient – while they are capable of speech their vocalization patterns are reminiscent of those of toddlers or young schoolchildren (that is, usually mostly coherent but exceedingly simple. A Puffsprite can learn more complex language over time but will quickly forget (i.e within the space of a day) if not prompted to remember.) But they are fiercely loyal to their Deminutian overlords, a fact ensured by a few mild doses of the same neurotoxin they carry.