Ancients
Ancients noun - People who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe).
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- After Dink receives a visit from a local wizard and Dink's mother and house burn in a fire, Dink begins his epic and snarky journey to save the kingdom from cults, rogue knights, goblins, famine, and an ancient who destroyed all other ancients.
Source: Video Game / Dink Smallwood -
Both of those races had reached intergalactic flight technology (with at least the Ancients even having traveled to galaxies outside their original local cluster long before their technological peak) before the Goa'uld even got off their original planet.
Source: Low Culture, High Tech
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