Once a citizen of the idyllic world Zenn-La, Shalla-Bal made the ultimate sacrifice to save her planet and the life she knew. She agreed to become the herald of the world-devourer, Galactus, and was transformed into the Silver Surfer—a being of immense cosmic power, bound to a silver surfboard. Now, she travels the endless night between stars, a lonely and stoic observer whose terrible duty is to find worlds for her master to consume. She is a tragic figure, a ghost of a lost life, who wields unimaginable power but is forever a prisoner to the choice that saved her home at the cost of her own soul.