List of fictional ancient extraterrestrial species
This is a list of fictional ancient extraterrestrial species in science fiction who have all but died out, left only ruins or have only a small group of survivors left:
- Ancient humanoids (Star Trek)
- Alteran (Stargate)
- Ancient (Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War)
- Ancient (Farscape)
- Ancient (Traveller)
- Assassin (The Heechee Saga)
- Arisian (Lensman)
- Celestial (Marvel Comics)
- Celestial (Star Wars)
- Chozo (Metroid)
- Cocytan (The Dig)
- Eddorian (Lensman)
- Elder God (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Faranji from Star Sonata
- The First Ones (Babylon 5)
- Forerunner (Halo)
- Furling (Stargate SG-1)
- Ganymeans (Giants series)
- Hanshak (Ascendancy)
- Heechee (The Heechee Saga)
- Iconian (Star Trek)
- Jjaro (Marathon)
- Kimera (Earth: Final Conflict)
- Leviathan (Mass Effect)
- Metron from Star Trek:TOS
- Mzungu from Star Sonata
- Necrontyr (Warhammer 40,000)
- Nox (Stargate SG-1)
- Oan (DC Comics)
- Nebula, the (Andromeda)
- Occlith (Clark Ashton Smith)
- Old Ones (Warhammer)
- Old Ones (Warhammer 40,000)
- Old Ones/Elder Things (H. P. Lovecraft)
- The Overmind (Childhood's End)
- Paradine (Andromeda)
- Psionics (Notrium)
- Precursor (Star Control)
- Precursor (Halo)
- The Progenitors of (Homeworld 2)
- Prothean (Mass Effect)
- Protoculture (Macross)
- Rakata (Star Wars)
- Reapers (Mass Effect)
- Shadow (Babylon 5)
- Shipwrights, the creators of Mother (Remnants)
- Thrint or "Slavers", ancient rulers of the Galaxy (Known Space)
- T'kon (Star Trek)
- Thran (Magic: The Gathering)
- UrQa from Star Sonata
- Vazaha from Star Sonata
- Voorqual (Clark Ashton Smith)
- Vorlon (Babylon 5)
- W'rkncacnter (assuming there is more than one) (Marathon)
- Watcher (Marvel Comics)
- Xel'Naga (StarCraft)
- Xeelee (Xeelee Sequence)
- Unnamed and unseen aliens in the Space Odyssey series (In the prologue of 3001: The Final Odyssey they are called the "Firstborn", but never referred to as such in-story in any novel in the series.)
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