Precursors

Description
The Precursors are the Ancestors and former empire of Humanity. They existed sometime a million or so years ago, but that is unconfirmed; As a matter of fact, not much is known about the Precursors besides the legends that are among other races, as the official written history was lost in the oncoming wars. What is known is listed below. The rest is left up to speculation and legend. It is said that after the Precursors began attacking their own systems, they became violent and unpredictable, attacking and destroying entire star systems for no reason at all; Eventually moving onto systems not within their own territory. The Galactic Council quickly waged a galaxy spanning war on the Precursors, and decimating thousands of systems in the process; after centuries of fighting the last fleet of humanity fell. Soon after, the council voted to take the surviving humans and de-evolve them to a prehistoric point, and then stick them on their home planet of Earth. The Teltens, favored for their effort against the human scourge, were put in charge of monitoring humanity's evolutionary journey via several listening stations.
 * The empire had vastly superior technology compared to what the Protectorate holds. They are comparable to the Jeltic
 * They uplifted multiple races but it is thought that the Teltens were the first.
 * At some point they engaged in war with a much larger species and Won. But quickly became isolated and refused to speak to any alien race.
 * Soon after becoming isolated, they began to randomly invade their own planets, destroying their central government buildings. The populations quickly began to move onto large fleets and away from their current planet.



Unbeknownst to the Old Council, many Precursor ships crash landed on random barren planets throughout the galaxy, forming colonies and using the technology left behind, terraforming each one for their needs. Each one with a varying amount of success. However, as certain conditions on the planet could not be changed and over time and generations, the knowledge on how to manipulate such technologies used in keeping them safe began to dwindle a steady yet noticeable evolutionary change occurred; this formed many different species around the Galaxy. The currently discovered former Precursor societies are: Many other races of the former empire do exist, but not all have been discovered yet.
 * The Maerians
 * The Protectorate
 * (Possible) Jeltic
 * George
 * Draicid