Ashes and Remnant

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Ashes noun - The portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed.

Usage example: a new and more splendid city was built on the ashes of the old

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Remnant and ashes are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Remnant" instead a noun "Ashes".

Remnant noun - A remaining group or portion.

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Ashes and remnant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ashes" instead a noun "Remnant".

Happens lots of times in David Weber's Empire from the Ashes, as the omnicidal Achuultani, themselves a last remnant from a campaign of genocide by a hostile power in their own galaxy, have nearly wiped out humanity several times.

Source: Genocide Backfire
To detail on the (chronologically) last part: the Mughal Empire started out as the remnant of an empire rising up from the ashes of the Mongol Empire (thus being the vestigial empire of a vestigial empire), until they overran the Delhi Sultanate and replaced it.

Source: Vestigial Empire

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