Elder Race

A technologically advanced past race that originated from another galaxy and invaded ours, eventually sparking war with the Ancients.

History
Fleets of Elder ships first appeared during the feudal decline of the Ancient race. The Elder Race observed the stagnating state of the galaxy under Ancient rule. The Ancients struggled to win a war against the Tabbaroth, and accidentally unleashed their greatest mistake, the Inferus, a second time. The Elder Race was forced to reveal themselves and join forces with the Ancients to combat the Second Inferus Outbreak, after which they entered an uneasy Cold War, knowing each side possessed the power to annihilate the other. Not long after the Ancients' failure to prevent Zykezx's Conquest, the Elder Race openly went to war.

War with the Ancients
Due to Amossondath's dilemma during the war with the Tabbaroth, the Ancients had lost all knowledge of their powerful Stations. In addition to this, all Ancient Artificial Intelligences had been downgraded following the defection of the Monitor Warden during the Second Inferus Outbreak. This left them significantly at a disadvantage. The S'cha-ckl'ueu Arc remained the greatest potential weapon to the Ancients, but they still were unclear how to harness its great power. As the war went on, Ancients experimented on several captives and created figures like Vates or the Inferrectus. The Elder Race introduced the substance trumanium, being the first species to make use of it. The Ancients' capital city faced impending destruction at the hands of a trumanium comet, a doomsday weapon that was the spiritual successor to the pathogenic irrigation bomb, and the Ancient Prince Lossoriawath panicked and fled in the Temporal Matrix, abandoning the war and costing the Ancients one of their greatest weapons. The Elder Race continued to use pathogenic irrigation bombs against Ancient worlds, and after Jossaldinath famously stole Annihilation to keep it from the Devastator, the Ancients had no cards left to play.

The war famously played out to mutual destruction. The last of the Elder Race fled the galaxy, followed by the last Keldronians. The last Ancients settled on a safe-world, where they planned to revive their species using the Genesis Engine, but were wiped out by a sexually-transmitted disease contracted from local wildlife.

Biology
The Elder Race do not fit into any existing biological kingdom. They exhibit radial symmetry, and a ring of scoop-like wings protrude from their barrel-like bodies along thick rib-like sensory structures running vertically from their tops to their tentacled bottoms.