The people of Majalis, whose advanced society depends on a child, the First Servant, connected to a machine that keeps their world running.
The Majalans live on Majalis, a paradise-like world with highly advanced technology. Their society depends on a machine joined to a child known as the First Servant, who is selected at birth and sacrificed to keep it running.
In Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach, Christopher Pike reunited with Alora, a Majalan leader and an old love, after a warship attacked a shuttle carrying the next First Servant. The boy's father, Gamal, tried to fake his son's death. Pike could not prevent the boy's ascension, and Gamal left to join a colony opposed to the practice.