In an interview with Inverse, Morgan explained his model for the Elders. "Something I learned very early on in my trade, is that with aliens, the closer you get to them, the more difficult it is to make them stick," the author explained. "What I've done is sort of cheated by saying there are aliens but they're all gone and we don't know much about them or understand what they've left behind, and we're scrambling around for clues."

Although the show and the books have slightly different takes, as can be expected, it appears the Elders were always meant to be somewhat unknown and ominous. Viewers are, in fact, still scrambling around for clues, even after season 2, as so much about the Elders remains unclear. Whereas in Morgan's books all the aliens have been gone for tens of thousands of years, if not longer, the show has one of them still alive and well. Morgan admits that keeping the aliens a mystery makes it easier to not have to fully explain them while still alluding to the fact that they should be somewhat feared.The show appears to take these mysterious beings and shed some light on them a change Morgan completely understands. "In the show, there's mention of them being an intensely militaristic species, but in the books, depending on who you are as a person, you project onto them what you want them to be."

That, of course, doesn't make the aliens any easier to pin down, but Morgan does make it clear that "we do know they were fighting either amongst themselves or fighting someone else."

While the Elders aren't from Mars in the TV series, the books featured an alien ship that belonged to Martians. Morgan imagined the aliens to be "pterodactyl-like," perhaps a combination of "a pterodactyl and a fruit bat." Even still, Morgan explains that the books don't tell much about the "mummified corpses" that are found on the ship.One of the biggest questions the audience has after season 2 is how the Elders' technology works, but Morgan doesn't hammer home a definitive answer. The audience, it appears, is supposed to accept the fact that these aliens created technology that's incomprehensible to humans humans who are bound to have their own interpretations.

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