Now you probably had to have been a real fan of this show to guess this card, as this is an orb, and it was the means of communication between the alien clones on planet Earth and Antar, which was their home planet. It`s actually a very effective card as though the card itself is totally flat, the way it is designed makes it appear to curve and be three dimensional.
The series was called Roswell, and it was an American series that started in October 1999 and ran until May 2002, though the first two series were on one network and the third on another. Actually before it was a series on television it was a series of books, called Roswell High about a group of school children who are actually aliens.
The series ended rather abruptly with several loose ends, and lots of maybes, but it was a great show, though it could never really make its mind up as to whether it was a school series that just happened to involve aliens, or an alien series that just happened to be set in a school. And bringing in another group of aliens in the second series only added to the confusion. But the theme music, which was by Dido, was one of the best ever - in my view anyway.
Like most of our other sci-fi this week, there was a remake, which started out on paper in 2017 and actually did get to the small screen, for four seasons between 2019 and 2022. All the cast were different.
As for the words on the reverse, there are indeed only half of them. That is because there were two orb cards - number one, which was ours, and number two. There were also two orbs in the show - one being found by Max and Liz when they kiss and she gets a vision of where it was hidden, and the other being given to Michael, one of the other aliens, at which time he is told that there is another, but they only work when they are placed together. However they are not actually placed together until season one episode twenty-two, at which point they activate and reveal a message from Max and Isabel`s mother - the very message on our card(s) - which, rather neatly, can only be read if you place both cards together, as it is across both of the cards, the words on our card being in bold type below, and that on card two being in standard type. And the whole message reads :
My children... You have lived before. On a planet in a galaxy not yet discovered where you
live now. My son, you were the beloved leader of our people. My daughter you were a brave
warrior. You both perished in a conflict that enslaved our planet, Your essence was
duplicated. Cloned. And combined with human genetic material so that you could be
re-created as human beings.
Our enemies have come to Earth. That is why the four of you have been sent. To use your
skills, your knowledge, your leadership to combat the enemy and prevent them from taking
over another race, another peaceful people. you will know the enemy only by the evil inside
them. But be careful, they have learned to mask it well. I ask only one more thing of you.
Learn enough to come back and free us ... Help us. I love you.
This was just one of the extras for a ninety card set issued as "Season One" in November 2000 by Inkworks - starting with five different promotional cards, then moving into autographs, a nine part foiled sectional puzzle of the cast, and six cards of the clues they were to follow each with a mock metal finish. You could also get the sectional puzzle as a mini sheet, uncut, for $69.95.
Lastly there is a box topper with three of the stars on, which is dated for 2001, and which, thrillingly, advertises the promise of new season two cards - but these never came about, leaving season one as was the only set..