ANCIENT, LOST, AND DEAD CIVILIZATIONS

Much of the knowledge below was provided to the Terran Alliance by the crew of a JolKoar trading vessel that sought and was granted asylum in 2030 while in the Sirius system.

Bellatmorane Hegemony (Dead)

A long-dead theocratic power that eventually became one with its organic technology, living on as memory engrams inside the organic artifacts that survived the downfall of their empire.

Free Collective of Suns (Dead)

A democratic (on the surface) amalgamation of several independent civilizations that grew out of a single species, the Free Collective was in reality an interstellar magocracy. Innately magical, the species (whose name has been lost) placed strong importance on family ties, the strength of 'genetic purity' to enhance magical power, and the righteousness of their legal system (which was of course heavily biased towards magic users). Leadership of the Collective was tenuous at best, with the average reign of the 'elected' leader being about 20 years in length. But those short periods were long enough for leaders to push whatever agenda they felt like - war, peace, and revolution all danced in a perpetual cycle until the Collective eventually fragmented under external pressure from multiple wars and civil unrest. The Free Collective would eventually break up into several sucessor empires, none of which lasted long.

Lunar Foundation (Lost, Presumed Dead)

The Lunar Foundation is a presuambly corporate civilation which seemingly only 'settled' moons. Technology-wise they ere masters of nanotechnology, and tended to consume all available resources on moons, leaving them powdery balls of rock and dust mined out to their cores. They were primarily composed of humanoids of various species, and created semi-intelligent weaponry which would bond with their wielders and steadily alter them to be more optimal in combat over time.

While they consumed countless moons over their ten-thousand year lifetime, they only created permanent settlements on two worlds. Their scientific research towards the latter days of their reign seemed to be focused on controlling 'luck' as a scientific concept, however they show no inclination towards magic or psionics according to records that remain.

The Foundation eventually died out due to a lack of population, having turned procreation into a heavily-regulated taboo to the point where they could not maintain a sustainable birth rate. Their civilization lives on through nanotech weaponry encoded with lingering decayed memories from their empire.

Nightlords (Ancient, Presumed dead until recently)

While their status as 'dead' is a matter of some debate following the appearance of one in Sirius in 2030, for all intents and purposes these extradimensional entities are considered classifiable under this category for the time being. However, rumors abound that they are stirring to action once more and beginning to set things in motion behind the scenes. They are the most likely suspect for the uplift of the Nightcallers which led to the Nightcaller Conflict.

Xodut Confederacy (Lost)

Not much is known about the Confederacy aside from their predeliction for organic technology. Historians classify them as lost due to the fact that artifacts traceable to them continue to turn up with signs of recent manufacture.