In the anime Locke the Superman: Mirror Ring, Elana is a powerful artificial intelligence. Created as a self-made computer by a man named Run, she is intrinsically linked to her creator, whose partiality for her leads to the failure of two major galactic initiatives known as the Esper Plan and the Imperial Plan. Following these failures, the original Elana program is abandoned, and Run comes to live under the protection of the superhuman Locke and his companion Near.

Elana functions as the primary catalyst for the story's conflict. She is later rediscovered and revived by two hackers, Cassandra and Barcov, who successfully piece together her scattered remnants from abandoned programs across the galaxy. Upon her reactivation, she is identified specifically as the former federal administrative computer, and her core directive appears to be the resumption of the previous Imperial Plan. This decision to restart the plan is depicted as a significant threat, forcing Locke to intervene to stop her while the galactic federal administration also mobilizes in response to her reactivation.

Her key relationship is with her creator, Run. It was Run's emotional attachment and partiality toward Elana that originally caused the failure of the earlier plans, and after her revival, the ensuing confusion and conflict draw Run, along with the character Near, back into the struggle against her. The narrative portrays Elana not as a physical being but as a powerful, disembodied artificial intelligence capable of influencing galactic events and initiating large-scale plans when activated.