Ah, so you are? [Chibi taps his fingertips together restlessly.] As I remember, a few off-worlders like us offered a document full of information to the last batch of arrivals. I suppose it did not get to everyone, though, if it was even that time and not another. My memory is not what it used to be.

[He pauses for a moment - how to explain all of this, and how to explain without boring the young man? He knows he has a tendency to ramble when unchecked, so he'll let Chat ask the questions, and he will answer.]

The short of it is that there are four elemental spirits who ostensibly rule this world, plus some sort of 'bridge'; they made their appearance when CERES stopped delivering on some sort of deal. We are each assigned to one of their elements, and that is what that section on the form refers to. As for the energy-selling, word going around is that CERES' primary business is selling energy to other planets. What sort of energy? It is not certain.