The Ancients

The Ancients were one of the five Great Civilisations created by the Celestials in the Dawn of Life. They were the only one of these that was not left completely alone by their creators, rather the Celestials stayed on the their homeworld of Y'hi for at least 4 billion years. This meant that they inherited a lot of knowledge and power from their creators.

Although the Ancients advanced quickly, they were held back by their rather primitive monastic society structure. They continued to spread around the Universe, educating other civilisations and spreading the Word of the Universe, making them the Universe's first home-grown Type 6 civilisation. Eventually, the Ancients met their demise thanks to the ruler of the Darians, Guret the Great, who massacred the entire population in the Great Purging (the First Space War).

All that remains of their civilisation is the thousands of documents that are left behind in the worlds they visited, which still to the day are taught in the schools in Remian societies.