Monolith

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"It's Kree, dangerous, intended to destroy our people." "But didn't they make us?" "Then they decided we were a mistake."

- Jiaying and Raina

The Monolith is an ancient Kree artifact with the purpose to destroy the Inhumans.

Origin
"This "stone", were there deep cavities carved into it?"

- Gordon

The Kree, soon after the creation of the Inhumans, realised that it was a mistake and decided to use the Monolith to destroy the race. The Stone was recovered from an excavation site over a hundred years ago. It was eventually found by S.H.I.E.L.D. and stored in the cargo hold of the aircraft carrier Iliad.

Battle on the Iliad
Nick Fury ordered Bobbi Morse to destroy the Iliad to assure that the Monolith would not fall to HYDRA during the HYDRA Uprising. Morse ultimately defied orders, saving the ship, and continuing the existence of the Stone.

War against the Inhumans
When Phil Coulson became Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he learned of the Monolith from the Toolbox. It revealed that HYDRA sought the item and that it was in Robert Gonzales' possession. Raina had a precognitive dream about the Monolith, and this information was passed on to Afterlife leader Jiaying, who allowed Raina and Gordon to infiltrate the vessel to verify its location. When the two were discovered by Lance Hunter, Raina and Gordon escaped and the Monolith was given an armed regiment to defend it.

During the Inhuman War against S.H.I.E.L.D., the first place that the Inhumans attacked on the Iliad was the room that housed the Monolith. After taking control of the room, and later the ship, Gordon and Lincoln Campbell observed the Monolith; Gordon assured Campbell that it would not be used against them with the ship now conquered.

Research
After the Iliad was retaken by S.H.I.E.L.D., the Monolith was moved to the Playground, Jemma Simmons tried requesting permission from Alphonso Mackenzie, who had been put in charge of all alien artifacts, to send a probe into the box to examine the Monolith but Mackenzie declared that they will never open the box.

While Leo Fitz awkwardly tried to ask Simmons out to dinner, he stumbled, causing the lock on the case to loosen. Simmons then found out that the case was unlocked; when trying to re-lock the case, the stone morphed into its liquid form, shooting out and swallowing her. It then went back to its original form.