#ANCIENT SPACE TV TROPES SERIES#

The Protoculture based some of their most advanced technology (such as Space Folding) after the Vajra's biological systems. About the only thing the Protoculture didn't have a hand in creating are the Vajra of Macross Frontier, and that's because the Vajra are even older. Moreover, they 'created' (it's a bit more complex than that) the Protodeviln, who pushed them to the brink of extinction before being defeated.

#ANCIENT SPACE TV TROPES SERIES#

The Macross series has the Protoculture, who are apparently responsible for everything that happens in the Milky Way: humans, Zentradi, and a multitude of other species across the galaxy were all created and seeded by them, and the Birdman was made by them in an attempt to mimic the Vajra.

In Lyrical Nanoha, the lost civilization of Al Hazard/Alhazred, whose artifacts and technologies were considered Lost Logia even back in the era of Ancient Belka.

In Last Exile, this turned out to be the answer to all the mysteries (and there were plenty).

The four survivors ended up sealed in stone pillars for thousands of years, until they were awakened by Those Wacky Nazis. They were a highly evolved humanoid species that lived in Mexico tens of thousands of years ago, created the Stone Masks, fed on humans, and all but four of them were wiped out when they disagreed with the direction that Kars wanted to take their people.

The Pillar Men from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency follow most of the criteria for this trope.

The story is about how the lesser races cope with the 'Golden Tribe's' absence. In time they eventually undertook a journey out of their home galaxy and into a new one.

In Heroic Age, the precursors (known as the 'Golden Tribe') was the source of many wonders giving birth to stars, discovering the Star Way which connects all stars, as well uplifting several races.

If everyone gets into an argument over their leftover toys, you have an Archaeological Arms Race on your hands. Very often, their most powerful technology will appear deceptively primitive and/or ceremonial. If they gave their tech or it's being used by another race, it's Low Culture, High Tech.

Any and all of these are susceptible to Awakening the Sleeping Giant. If there's one or more race that played Precursors to the Precursors, then they're Recursive Precursors.

If they pick on their descendants, that's Abusive Precursors if they couldn't care less about anyone else, it's Neglectful Precursors if they help their descendants, it's Benevolent Precursors. If everyone's scared of them, that's Humans Are Cthulhu. If humans are the Precursors, that's also Advanced Ancient Humans. It may also happen that Earth humans are Precursors and their human or otherwise descendants try to rediscover their heritage. This also applies to the audience: the romance of Precursors can be easily shattered by giving too much away. Sometimes the Precursors can be rediscovered this is often regarded as a bad move, especially by the Precursors themselves. If the Precursors implemented a plan that, whether they still exist or not, still influences outcomes, then they are also Powers That Be. And then there are the times where they themselves are the reason everything's gone to hell, and they intend to keep it that way. Whatever the reason, they set the stage for the modern world, left behind a few MacGuffins and surprises for the heroes and villains to find, and then conveniently got out of the way. Perhaps they Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence, succumbed to decadence or were wiped out by a disaster or war, or maybe they just relocated en masse to somewhere else where they haven't been found yet. (Any of the aforementioned sorts of relics may be a Big Dumb Object.) Just why, no one knows. Predecessors now leave behind nothing but tantalizing ruins and rare, sometimes incomprehensible artifacts and dangerous weapons. Any strange and persistent mystery in the story's 'verse is usually laid at their feet. At the height of their civilisation, Precursors might have created intelligent species or reworked entire worlds with a snap of a finger. In fantasy, they will usually be the forerunners created by gods/God, mighty in deeds and magic. They are considered the first species to have technology, making them godlike. In Science Fiction, they may have visited Earth and/or other worlds but they would remain a mystery. 'Ancients', 'Elders' or 'Old Ones', are a standard of Science Fiction (especially Space Opera), Fantasy and occasionally Horror: an ancient race whose culture and knowledge rose to its pinnacle in ages long past but which is no longer present.

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