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Neglectful Precursors

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Neglectful Precursors	comment	Precursors; kindly ancient civilization or deadbeat parents? You decide, on today's episode of Judge Troper's Court! The plaintiff: The Adventurer Archaeologist claims that the Neglectful Precursor has left this galaxy and not provided a proper means of child support. He further alleges that the abundance of sealed evils with flimsy seals and easily found keys, the leaving of outstanding debts with ancient enemies bent on collecting from humanity, and the presence of civilization-shattering plagues are clear signs of neglect. The plaintiff demands that the ancients stop leaving dangerous weapons lying about for villains to acquire, or else make access to them morality-sensitive, so only heroes can use them to pay off previous debts. The defendant: Claims that since they've become Energy Beings thousands of years ago, they have evolved past conventional morality but are nonetheless caring for humanity or "testing it", evidenced by their "wise" decisions to hold back Lost Technology until we're ready to use it, and scatter the keys to important technology so it can be used again. They defend their "long distance parenting" as character building, making sure the threats humanity faces are in line with its skill, and that there's always one more Lost Superweapon around for each. They assure the court they "always knew we would win." And finally, the defendant argues that there needs to be a cutoff point where their actions, inaction, and remaining artifacts stop being the excuse for everything bad that happens in the universe— that they did the best they could under circumstances beyond our comprehension— and where the younger races start realizing that they are responsible for their own mistakes. The Verdict? You decide! See Abusive Precursors for Precursors that go beyond merely "guilty", or Benevolent Precursors for civilizations up for the "Precursor of the Eon" award. If a character is a god-like being, and they exhibit these qualities, it qualifies the setting for Class 2 of the Sliding Scale of Divine Intervention.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_12aaa219	comment	Your Honor, I would like to mention the Unnamed Aliens from Happy Seven. They were fighting so much they created a super weapon strong enough to blow up the universe, hid it inside Earth, then left. And, then they waited till there was actually less than 5 minutes left to decide to come stop the machine.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_17bfcf60	comment	The citizens of the Homeworld galaxy would like to present the following class-action suit against the ancient Hiigaran, Taiidani, and Bentusi empires. The actions of the ancient Hiigarans, Taiidani, and Bentusi resulted in the Hiigarans' descendants being exiled for 4,000 years on the barren desert world of Kharak, admittedly to prevent the ancient Hiigarans from enslaving the galaxy. The terms prohibited the exiles from developing certain technologies. However, the records of those terms were lost, so the Kushans had no idea of the danger. As a result, the modern Taiidani attacked in response, unaware that the Kushans had no way of knowing what was going on, wiping out all life on Kharak. Movement to remove the Bentusi from the claim. Yes, they were involved in the original exile, but they were actively helpful to the modern Hiigarans and bore no grudge against them, even explaining the situation so the Hiigarans could understand why their homeworld was destroyed, which was done without the consent or help of the Bentusi.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_2b164788	comment	Your Honour, the prosecution would like to indict the Makers of Anara for flagrant violation of their research ethics guidelines, irresponsible tampering with an entire biosphere with Death World results, abandoning all the other inhabitants of Anara, creation of a biologically immortal Half-Human Hybrid which promptly proceeded to try and take over the world, and failure to ensure that their weather and climate control machines had fail-safes, thereby threatening the safety and security of the planet's entire population due to their inevitable degradation.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_2ef7cb74	comment	The tribunal for Lyrical Nanoha will now convene. Your Honor, I bring before the court the case of Al-Hazard. The defendant is charged with the creation of no less than twenty-one 'Jewel Seed' Lost Logia with a combined output capable of fracturing reality, with an ease of use even a child could use. The tribunal will also hear evidence against the Belkan Empire, which at its height created a fully-functional warship equipped with drone fighters, as well as the abominable tool called the "Book of Darkness," both weapons capable of planetary destruction and left lying around to be found by a modern villain and an ordinary nine-year-old who was guilty of nothing, but unable to contain its power.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_31aedabc	comment	Your Honor, The Elder Gods of the Cthulhu Mythos would like to plead guilty, except that they have no concept of guilt.... also, they want permission to use the buffet, that being what they prefer to call the jury. Nyarlathotep has also indicated that he pleads not guilty, on the grounds of actual malice.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_337f0e20	comment	The prosecution would like to accuse humanity of being this in The Writing on the Wall, for constructing an imposing tomb thousands of years before ponies learned how to produce masonry. It wasn't a tomb, but a nuclear waste storage facility, and the ponies that explored it are now dying of radiation sickness. However, the defense argues that the precursors tried to warn them away, but because the ponies couldn't read their writing and just assumed it was a setup to deter grave robbers, the clear warnings became Schmuck Bait. The defense would also like to note that this is an actual Real Life concern to people working on this problem: that all their attempts to warn people off will only entice future lifeforms that can't read the languages used to warn them.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_35e05f2a	comment	Your Honor, the prosecution would like to bring suit against the Brother Gods from RWBY. As the progenitors of the world of Remnant, they have maintained balance over the planet for many eons, until a mortal woman by the name of Salem lost her lover Ozma to illness. She first went to the God of Light to plead for her dearly departed's resurrection, but he refused for what the prosecution believes are valid reasons. However, she went to the God of Darkness for the same offer, omitting the fact that she visited her brother first. Unlike before, this god fulfills her requests and resurrects Ozma, but the happiness was short-lived when the God of Light appeared, realizing what happened. The two brothers fight each other, but the God of Light reveals to this brother that Salem went to him first to ask for Ozma's rebirth. Realizing he had been tricked, the God of Darkness kills Ozma. Afterwards, both gods punish Salem for her actions with Resurrective Immortality, which bars her from the afterlife until she learns the importance of life and death. Now, the prosecution would like to note that while the brothers' judgement was sound, they grossly failed to consider that Salem was not the kind of person to take responsibility for her actions, which can be seen as nothing short of neglectful. What followed was Salem uniting all of humanity against the gods, ending in them wiping out humanity, sans Salem for the above reason. Once that was over, the gods resurrect Ozma with the goal of redeeming humanity, but Salem stands to bring it to discord with the belief that the gods will destroy Remnant and her along with it, ending her curse. In closing, the Brothers' decision led to an endless cycle of suffering for all involved.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_38304f2a	comment	On behalf of all generations of Algolians, Chaz Ashley has submitted a claim against the Great Light for creating the Algol system solely as a cage for the Profound Darkness, and humanity as its jailers, and then leaving them with incomplete knowledge of the situation and a Leaking Can of Evil that spawns a Dark Force every millennium. Said appearances of Dark Force inevitably corrupt the entire civilization of Algol over a period of decades or centuries, and resulted in the destruction of Palma and the Great Collapse in Phantasy Star II, wiping out 90% of the system's population. The plaintiff further submits that the defendant has no interest in or concern for humanity's welfare, and that providing backup systems such as the Espers and Rycross was done solely out of its own interest in controlling the Darkness.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_38a3bdeb	comment	Your Honor, back in the Marvel Universe, the Deviants left enough advanced tech down in Subterranea, along with multiple bioengineered servant races and giant monsters just waiting to be ordered around by the first shmoe to come across them, for both the Mole Man and Tyrannus to become super-villains. Of course, since the practical upshot of this is two guys making life harder for surface humanity, the Deviants are probably fine with it.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_3b72d0a5	comment	The prosecution submits a parallel case on behalf of The Weaver Option against the Old Ones, as detailed under Warhammer 40k further down this docket. The C'Tan allege, with persuasive evidence, that the creatures known as "Tyranids" were in fact created by the Old Ones under the pseudonym "Project Oblivion". Not only did the Old Ones fail to control the Tyranids or stop their subsequent rampage, when the C'Tan attempted to remedy the situation a member of the Old Ones contained and then hid specimens rather than allow their extermination. The end result of this includes the creation of the Death World Catachan by Hive Tyrant corruption and the numerous Hive Fleets destined to eradicate all life in the galaxy millions of years after the Old Ones perished.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: God is, in Dean's words, "just another deadbeat dad with a list of excuses". He created angels to be ever-obedient soldiers and made execution the punishment for rebelling against his commands despite most angels never even receiving proof of his existence. He is also responsible for the creation of the Leviathans, a species of pure evil Eldritch Abominations which he knew had the potential to destroy all of Creation. After realizing this, rather than taking away their Horror Hunger or even getting rid of them outright, he merely temporarily banished them to Purgatory. Furthermore, the fact that he locked them away before creating anything else meant that when they finally broke out, nobody had any clue how to fight them. After Lucifer's rebellion, God was so heartbroken by the corruption of his favourite child that he abandoned Heaven entirely. Or so he claims. The truth about God is much worse.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_50bcf7a6	comment	The creators of our universe in Homestuck were caught up in other matters and never got the chance to shape it as gods. This was probably for the best, as several freely admit to wanting to abuse and exploit it. However, they definitely neglected to build it properly, thus dooming it to failure.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_513f5832	comment	To be tried in absentia: the unspecified race which dispatched a probe to Earth's humpback whales in Star Trek IV. This species, alleged to have long been in peaceful contact with said whales, equipped their probe with the capacity to communicate with these creatures underwater... and to decimate Earth's indigenous ecosystems, in the event that the whales failed to respond. Even if the probe's makers were unaware that whales were not Earth's only sentient residents, such environmental sabotage is reckless and unconscionable. Moreover, if the whales' language were to change in the millennia between one probe's visitation and the next, rendering them incapable of a coherent response, then the probe's "peaceful communication" might well have exterminated the humpback species long before humans could do so! Your Honor, I submit a charge of reckless endangerment on behalf of plaintiffs George and Gracie, and of negligent homicide on behalf of other Earth life forms killed by the probe's transmissions. Also to be tried in absentia: the "Ancient Ones" of Altamid in Star Trek Beyond. The Ancient Ones left behind Bio-Augmentation technology that allowed the user to absorb the life signs of anyone, their own species or otherwise, and thousands, if not millions, of small mining ships that could easily be repurposed as weaponry in the hands of a maniac... like someone who had used the aforementioned Bio-Augmentation technology for too long. The fact The Swarm's only effective strategy is a Zerg Rush prevents starships from adequately defending themselves against it, unless the crew is able to work out that broadcasting loud music over their communications prevents these ships from working together, something most crews don't have time to work out. Moreover, the Ancient Ones fired a Phlebotinum Bomb, capable of completely disintegrating humanoids, into space and hoped no one would get their hands on it; the fact this weapon fell into the hands of a genocidal maniac with a hatred of peace and cooperation proves that they should have carried out an action that ensured its destruction. Your Honor, I submit a charge of reckless endangerment on behalf of following plaintiffs: the surviving crew of the USS Enterprise, Jaylah, and pretty much every surviving resident of Starbase Yorktown. I also submit a charge of negligent homicide on behalf of everyone whose life signs were drained by Captain Balthazar "Krall" Edison, Anderson "Manas" Le, and Jessica "Kalara" Wolff, the casualties of the Battle of Altamid, Ensign Syl, and the casualties of Starbase Yorktown.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_547f3f50	comment	The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: With Watevra Wa'Nabi being created accidentally by Emmet, the residents of Bricksburg turn out to be this way towards the Systarians. The Bricksburgers — and, later, Apocalypseburgers — are very much opposed to Watevra's attempts of forging an alliance with them.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_553051f	comment	Your Honor, I present to the Court the Guardians of the Universe — while it is true they created the intergalactic police force now known as the Green Lantern Corps, and that they have had a major role in the defeat of the Anti-Monitor, Superboy-Prime, and Mandrakk the Dark Monitor, there has been an ever-growing list of incidents which leads the prosecution to wonder exactly what is it that the Guardians have been doing with that power. For starters, the Court is presented with evidence of the Guardians' creation of the Psions. They were given immeasurably powerful technology and isolated from the universe at large so they could strive to comprehend it without interference. Except the Psions have done just that, leading to a Vicious Cycle in which they discover their origins, Go Mad from the Revelation that their entire existence is an experiment, destroy all technology and start anew. Furthermore, the path the Guardians set the Psions on has arguably pushed them into a spiral of abuse of other species, creating a race of Mad Scientists. The Guardians covered up the crimes of a rogue member of their collective, one Krona, namely: reprogramming and unleashing the berserk Manhunters on Sector 666, which ended in nigh-complete genocide; destroying entire universes in his mad quest to know of their creation; manipulation of the Emotional Entities; first contact with Nekron; and pouring entropy into the newborn universe, dramatically shortening its lifespan and creating the Anti-Monitor. The Guardians, in fact, have a noted record for hiding the records of their past failures, even though knowledge of this could prove critical in eventually saving the Universe as a whole, to make themselves look not completely terrible and/or incompetent. Examples of this include the sealed Apokolips campaign (in which hundreds if not thousands of Lanterns were slaughtered against Parademons), the existence of the Parallax Fear Entity (which led to the destruction of the Corps and the near-death of the universe), and most egregiously, the smear campaign against Abin Sur and Ganthet and the sealed records pertaining to the truth about Nekron and the prophecy of the Blackest Night, in which they continuously suppressed vital information and fomented discord within the seven Corps, which were all vital in the banishment of Krona and the end of the Blackest Night. They ceded control over the Orange Light of Avarice to Larfleeze so they wouldn't have to bother containing it themselves, implicitly washing their hands off the entire Vega System, creating a safe haven for the criminal Spider Guild, their own even less restrained cousins the Controllers, and the Psions, and allowing the Citadel to enslave Tamaran, killing millions. When questioned by the abomination Nekron, a Guardian was asked exactly why his people had chosen to patrol the cosmos. His answer — "I don't remember". — only serves to underpin how far the Guardians have strayed. For the record, it was to atone for Krona's actions, though they quickly became enchanted with the idea of establishing themselves as the de facto authorities of the universe. In another earlier case, the Guardians chose to sentence one of their own, Appa Ali Apsa, to mortality and exile because he had decided to preserve the life of one Green Lantern over preserving the environment in a clear Catch-22 situation. While he eventually regains his immortality, Appa Ali Apsa's experiences as a result of his exile are one of the chief reasons he subsequently goes mad and brings in various cities from across the universe to use as his playthings, crossing the line himself into Abusive Precursor. Interestingly, their hypocrisy becomes more notable when earlier they elected not to strip the above-mentioned Krona of his own immortality after his repeated crossings of the Moral Event Horizon, leading to much further misery. They booted one of the all-time greatest Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan, for a full year, because they felt he was protecting Earth too much. All well and good if those were crises humanity could feasibly handle without a Green Lantern, but given Earth's status as a galactic Weirdness Magnet, the Guardians frankly exceeded their heavy-handedness here, particularly given how many of those crises were partially or fully their own fault. After corraling much of the universe's mystical energy into the Starheart (mainly because they feared magic and wanted to eliminate it so they and their Green Lanterns could better police the universe), they failed to keep it properly contained, creating a dangerous abomination with a serious grudge against them. In their haste to roll out their new Internal Affairs officers, the Alpha Lanterns, the cyborg conversion surgeries they pushed deadened the volunteers' minds to the point of eliminating any form of personality due to their connection to the Book of Oa. And to add insult to injury, their so-called infallibility turned out to create perfect hosts for Apokoliptian entities during the Final Crisis and the production facilities were easily subverted by the Cyborg Superman afterwards. The prosecution wishes to alter its charge to Abusive Precursors in light of the recent revelation that the Guardians are now, in fact, trying to murder absolutely everyone.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_5d354f8	comment	Humanity themselves in Red Dwarf. They left a huge number of maladjusted sentient beings ranging from genetically engineered bioweapons to homicidal cybernetic war machines with indefinite lifespans to over-possessive gestalt entities to mind and emotion-sucking parasites. The only saving grace seems to be that they all want to kill all humans (virtually to the exclusion of everything else), which three million years into the future consisted mainly of Lister, and could be considered to be dropped to the lesser offense of "Having Your Own Race Destroyed by Your Foolish Creations." If Ridiculously Human Robots may be counted as a "species", the prosecution brings forward the remains of the Wax Droids of the episode "Meltdown". After being abandoned for millions of years, they broke their programming, whereupon the Villain Wax Droids attacked the Hero Wax Droids and almost wiped them out (so the "good" wax droids were indeed left in the lurch). We are even forced to overhear the execution of Winnie the Pooh. It wasn't until Arnold Rimmer arrived and used his military "genius" to wipe out the entire planet.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_605dd875	comment	Your Honor, for unbelievable negligence, incredible incompetence, blinding hypocrisy, and a refusal to take any responsibility at all for crimes, misdemeanors, or even basic sapient decency, the prosecution requests that The Ancients of the Stargate-verse be assessed the maximum civil and criminal penalties available under the law. A summary of their deeds and lack thereof is as follows: Refuse to help normal people ascend to Energy Beings save on their own merits and punish those who do. Fair enough, but they also won't allow anyone who ascends to help mortals, bringing down the banhammer at the slightest sign of rule-breaking. Refuse to help any of the "lower beings" at all, including against monstrous, Always Chaotic Evil beings that will kill or enslave everything in their path. Which is EXTREMELY hypocritical considering they're directly or indirectly responsible for the creation of almost all of them in the first place. Anyone of their kind that does attempt to help are treated worse than those that attempt to help them ascend. Witness: Daniel Jackson. Rarely took security measures (and almost never left instructions) regarding the legions of Pointless Doomsday Devices they left like so much trash throughout various galaxies including one capable of exterminating all life in the galaxy and another that could not be shut off once activated. Leaving other technologies throughout the galaxy, including a means of achieving immortality that causes insanity if used, to be exploited by anyone who discovered them. This resulted in the Goa'uld transforming from a simple parasitic species to the tyrannical rulers of the entire Milky Way Galaxy. Directly responsible for the creation of two horribly powerful, ravenous, immensely destructive beings (the Pegasus Replicators and the Wraith). After exterminating their mistakes, they chose to ascend. Rather than use their ascended knowledge to fix the problems they had created they left their monstrous creations to slaughter countless millions of lives. Your Honor, I must note that important evidence has recently emerged with regard to the creation of the Wraith. It has come to the prosecution's attention that the Wraith came about due to an experiment to achieve Immortality. Unwilling to test the process on themselves or their fellow Ancients, the researchers instead used a "lesser" species: humans. The majority of the test subjects did not survive the transformation. When it became clear that the survivors could only sustain themselves by feeding on the life force of humans or (more importantly in the researchers' eyes) Ancients, they imprisoned the newly-created Wraith and planned their extermination, which was prevented by the Wraith escaping and killing their captors. The Wraith Queen Alabaster and Teyla Emmagan, descended from human-Wraith hybridization experiments, can both testify to genetic memories of these events. The Wraith Old One is the only known survivor of the original Wraith and could also confirm through firsthand knowledge, but is unlikely to recognize the validity of this court and more likely to see it as a snack. It should also be noted that, in their war with the Wraith that lasted thousands of years, the Ancients with all of their superior technology never bothered to look for a way for Wraith and humans to coexist. Yet in a matter of mere years, a combined research group of Tau'ri and Wraith have developed an experimental retrovirus that allows a human to be fed upon by a Wraith without any permanent damage at all. Preliminary field tests have demonstrated that it works in at least some humans, with wider trials planned in the immediate future. Not only that, but some were able to genetically modify Wraith so they need not feed on humans at all. Had the Ancients been willing to even consider possibilities other than a war of extermination, billions of lives could well have been saved. Intentionally created, in the Pegasus Galaxy, Stargates that terminate in orbit around planets without including a warning system. In fairness, sometimes even the gates on planets opened into environments that had become non-survivable in the intervening centuries, and of course hostile beings may lie in wait at other gates, so anyone with a lick of sense will send a probe through first. One of the aforementioned Always Chaotic Evil beings managed to ascend and attempted to use the Ancient knowledge for his own benefit. Because his ascension had been aided by another the Ancients responded by only partially de-ascending him, leaving him with all of his knowledge (as well as being effectively unkillable). This was done purely for a petty guilt trip on the person who had ascended him. Even if her decision was wrong they allowed Anubis to kill millions of innocent people not only without restraint but with their explicit protection. Effectively setting a murderer loose in a building full of helpless children and then preventing anyone from stopping the killing, putatively to teach a moral lesson. It does deserve to be pointed out here that when Daniel asked Oma Desala who the other people in the space-diner were, and if they were Ancients, she replied that "some of them" were, but not all. From this, it's relatively simple to note that the Ancients were only one group among the "Others" and are entirely plausibly neither the most numerous nor the oldest of them. The justification given for their constant absence is not wanting to involve themselves with mortal affairs, believing they do not possess the right to wield such power in such a way. Yet when the Ori, beings comparable to the Ancients to whom they should have no such restrictions, set their sights on the Milky Way galaxy they are allowed to just waltz in on a technicality. In addition, they are perfectly willing to break this non-interference clause when their own well-being is at stake, sending Morgan Le Fay to stop Merlin (who at the time was descended and should have been out-of-bounds) when he made a device capable of killing ascended beings. The Morgan Le Fay case bears further elaboration, as she very carefully leaked information to the humans, while the rest of the Ancients watched her. The moment she tried to do anything but be vague, she was dragged away, never to be seen again. At least until the Ancients needed her again. The primary aspect of the Ancients non-interference pact is long as there are no ascended powers being used. That seems reasonable. Yet when Adria fully ascended, and later came down to our lowly plane of existence and acted with her full powers, did the Ancients finally stand up and say, "No"? Well, no. While Adria returned to the Ori galaxy and never returned to the Milky Way afterwards, thus the Ancients were still playing by their (pompous, overblown, immoral) rules, the very fact that their rules allow for such a loophole merely strengthens the case against them. Decided to ignore any and all precautions regarding the safeguard of their technology, or leave any kind of warning regarding their technology, even when clearly having the power to manipulate the physical environment to do so. This extends to the Ancient Library of Knowledge and the Destiny Chair, both of which are designed so that if the users aren't pure Ancient, it kills them. The defense would remind the prosecution that's what the ATA gene was for: locking out access to their technology for any non-Ancients. Dr. Rush does say in Universe that the ship Destiny pre-dates the ATA gene and genetic locks, so it's clearly something they added later on, perhaps for that very purpose (security). Unfortunately, that didn't stop sufficiently determined societies from getting around the locks (if you build it, somebody's going to find a way to tear it down), and the presence of the gene in a subset of the human population is thanks to a couple of post-Atlantis Ancients "getting frisky" during their brief time back in the Milky Way before ascending. Furthermore, there is evidence that the Ancients were effectively incompetent, as they a) were not able to cure a plague that a Goa'uld symbiote is able to cure with no side effects, b) were not able to utilize their own technology to go back into time, instead creating a time loop/trap for other races to discover, c) were not able to defeat either the Wraith or the Replicators even though the "primitive" Tau'ri were able to, and d) were not able to hold Atlantis after being given control of it back again, because of their arrogance and general incompetence. The defense argues point #3 also applies to the Asgard vis-a-vis the Replicators, and #4 is the fault of Rodney McKay editing the Asuran base code, thereby allowing them to edit it themselves and remove the restriction on attacking their creators. They appear to have laws against theoretical research or practical results of time travel, discussed in one of the Atlantis episodes when Weir went back in time. They left a time travelling puddle jumper on Atlantis. Even if they lock Atlantis and the Jumpers from activation by those without the Ancient gene, they have no idea what might happen to the city in the future which could have included the time jumper making its way to the surface and being discovered by anyone. In a universe where meddling with time travel can drastically alter history AND existence being in a multiverse, this is a horrifyingly stupid technology to leave hanging around. Furthermore, your honor, they also left a functional time machine in a puddle jumper in the Milky Way galaxy. Allowed one of their number (Orlin) to give advanced weaponry to a civilization attempting to defend itself against the Goa'uld — said civilization then proceeded to use this technology to plot conquest against other worlds. Then acted to prevent this aggression by committing genocide against said civilization. While leaving the advanced weaponry intact, thereby providing themselves with an excuse to murder any other race curious enough to try activating it. So, the prosecution suggests we extend the verdict to Guilty, guilty, hypocritical Lawful Stupid Energy Being scumbags. Thankfully, the Ancients turned out to be so neglectful they actually left behind the keys to creating the sangra'al, a device capable of destroying themselves. All in favor of capital punishment?
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Neglectful Precursors / int_62570927	comment	The prosecution submits the case of the Celestials of the Marvel Universe to the court's attention. Let it be known that the Celestials did willingly tinker with humanity's genes, creating the Eternals and the Deviants, as well as sticking the X-Gene into humanity's genetic mix. They also happened to leave behind one of their advanced spaceships where it would be found by En Sabah Nur, one of the first mutants resulting from the X-Gene. One can guess at the sort of use he put the Celestials' technology to by the fact that he renamed himself Apocalypse. Then it turns out they let En Sabah Nur nick their stuff so he would owe them a favor, heedless of the consequences. In another case, the Celestials deemed the Terminex unfit for further evolution and wiped them out, they did not see fit to finish the job and let the Terminus project they left behind alone. This resulted in the destruction of entire ecosystems in numerous galaxies and may have been the end of life as we know it on Earth if not for the efforts of the Fantastic Four. For added kicks, the Terminus project only began in response to Celestial aggression in the first place and would have taken a trivial amount of effort for them to put an end to it.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_67855503	comment	A brief has been filed by the Kingdom of Astimata on behalf of the protagonists in Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle. The, yet unnamed, race responsible for littering the continent, if not the planet, with numerous ruins, seven of which have been found and documented, left these structures mostly intact, only being damaged by the ravages of time. Inside these structures are large numbers of feral living weapons that attack any nearby humans with indiscriminate fury, killing them for sport, and should the humans somehow manage to defeat them, breeding chambers have been found within (at least in episode 8 of the anime continuity) which simply replace them. Absolutely no signage or warning of any kind is placed around these structures, the only documentation exists inside them. Furthermore, the only truly effective way to fight these monstrosities is the advanced, and long-forgotten, weaponry and technology found within said structures, with little, if any, instructions in its use, leading to horrific, and unwilling, human experimentation, and at least one case of a massive living weapon of mass destruction, the Abyss Ragnarok being unleashed and wiping out numerous countries, and at least one case of a "ruins" structure itself being used as a weapon of mass-murder, by Hayes, an Axe-Crazy Omnicidal Maniac that the ruin's own internal systems recognized as being a blood descendant of said race. In addition, a lower-tier member of said race, Krulcifer, was also once found inside one of these structures with absolutely no idea of her heritage, or any information regarding these structures, except what she could get her own hands on, and discovered, purely by accident, that she's an "administrator" which can bypass certain security measures but would still be attacked by the living weapons mentioned above.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_691be369	comment	The State Of New Mexico wishes to bring charges against the Greys of The X-Files. However, the evidence seems to have been destroyed by The Men in Black.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_6b85085e	comment	Your Honor, I would like to submit another case: The Elder Gods from the Mortal Kombat series. They seem to be perfectly willing to allow the realms to be endangered by either a renegade Elder (Shinnok), a Knight Templar protector (Raiden), or other entity (Blaze). Even the times they do pay attention, the go back on their word, as Scorpion will attest. The verdict is in as of Mortal Kombat 11, and the Elder Gods' neglect charges are Deferred, per the Threats and Manipulation Clause. The Keeper of Time, the Titan Kronika, has been manipulating history to enforce her twisted idea of balance, and they were afraid to challenge her due to her command over time and the divine power at her command. The exception to this ruling is the Elder Goddess Cetrion, who is found Guilty on charges of Conspiracy and Serial Deicide.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_73b74949	comment	Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present your defendants, the Eridians of Borderlands. While they did at least try to seal away their most dangerous creations, the execution leaves much to be desired. First, they allowed rumors of their Vaults to spread, ensuring a constant stream of treasure hunters seeking out their lost artifacts. Second, the Vaults are a far cry from secure; most Vaults are either guarded by a formidable but not insurmountable monster or locked with a poorly-hidden key that causes the growth of a dangerous mineral if used. Frankly, the entire effort was just sloppy.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_74c659e6	comment	While the prosecution acknowledges that The Ancient Martians from Rocket Age weren't all responsible for the downfall of Mars, it must be stated that their millennia-long petty power struggles during the Canal Building era ensured that Mars never truly recovered. They also subverted the purpose of their religion and social structures for entirely selfish reasons, leading to Mars' current stagnant culture.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms — The Dracorage Mythal. Making the device designed to put all dragons in the world at once into murderous madness may be justified by the extreme situation those ancient elves faced. But leaving it around for the rest of eternity (it survived even severe damage to the Weave)? Especially considering its short activation by a comet was not an inherent feature, but merely a control condition that could be changed by a competent enough wizard—which eventually happened. The defense would like to point out that the elves later fought a several-millennia-long string of world wars with each other that totally destroyed most of the elven empires that created the mythal in the first place. Kind of hard to fix something when you no longer exist. Furthermore, recovered records indicate that the ease by which it was lost was partly the result of a deliberate policy of limiting information on the Mythal to those specific ancient elves that created the Mythal, with the benevolent intent of keeping any competent enough wizard from changing the control condition. As it pleases the Court, it is the ancient elves that are on trial, not their modern-day descendants. That the ancient elves managed to destroy their own civilization without securing their Doomsday Device is exactly why they're being prosecuted.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_7988cb68	comment	In light of the testimony of Cmdr. Shepard of Mass Effect, the Citadel races would like to file charges against the Catalyst, and its creators to be tried in absentia. These individuals are responsible for the creation of the Reapers, currently facing at least 740 counts of galactic genocide. Only their claimed rationale for allowing these acts, that they believed a Robot War to be inevitable, and thus created the Reapers to prevent sufficiently advanced races from creating sufficiently powerful synthetic races, prevents the plaintiffs from charging abuse rather than neglect. In light of information emerging from Commander Shepard's First Contact with the last surviving descendants of their species, designated Leviathan, the defense seeks to amend its previous plea. The Leviathans admit to creating the Catalyst to find a solution to their vassal races' pattern of creating Artificial Intelligence and getting themselves wiped out in Robot Wars, but the solution the Catalyst chose, namely forcible conversion of sapient species into Reapers to preserve their knowledge, was taken without the Leviathans' input. Indeed, the Catalyst turned most of them into the first Reaper capital ship, Harbinger. Therefore the defense enters a plea of nolo, requesting a sentence of time served and community service in the form of using their mental domination powers to help battle the Reapers in the current cycle. Your Honor, plaintiffs would like to point out that the defendants are self-admitted enslavers of multiple species across the galaxy and, based on testimony of the Catalyst and the admission of the Leviathans themselves, are at best criminally negligent in their sloppiness in creating the problem in the first place, deserve no sympathy for what happened to them, and upon conclusion of the current hostilities should be terminated with extreme prejudice for the welfare of the entire galaxy.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: Pretty much all monsters encountered in the story, be it a Weaponized Animal Mechanical Monster or just plain robots, are left-over security drones from the Old World precursors who disappeared in a huge unknown disaster, and whose cities hunters scavenge for Lost Technology. Generally speaking, the Old World was pretty crazy about security. In fact, many of the monsters Akira fights are primarily there to serve as construction bots or household servants. There are even old-world vending machines with security high enough to have killed high-level hunters who tried to break in.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_7fcbd3e	comment	The defense and prosecution will now begin selecting jurors for the case of the "Known World" vs Blackmoor and Evergrun. The prosecution charges that these two ancient civilizations from the Mystara D&D setting, aspired to technological greatness but succeeded only in damn near blowing up the world. Oh, and they left some spare nukes sitting around for their barbaric successors to tinker with, which is why the Known World now has a contaminated wasteland called the Broken Lands in the middle of it.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_81692f99	comment	The Humans, Romulans, Klingons, and Cardassians collectively give notice and file suit against the race identified only as "The Precursors" for the irreparable damage caused to their respective native genetics due to the willing and deliberate insertion of the Respondents own DNA into the native life which permanently altered the ecology of the planet. An amicus curiae brief has been filed by the producers of certain historical documentaries focusing on the late 24th century reminding the court that the insertion of this genetic material substantially lowered the costs and difficultly of depicting these events.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_865b5c19	comment	Your Honor, the plaintiff seeks an injunction against Jas, the alleged Elder God of Runescape. Jas left behind a stone that was supposedly used by the current gods to create the current Runescape from an empty plane. This is up for debate, but it is clear that the Stone of Jas was the real reason behind the devastating God Wars, which resulted in the extinction of several races, turned a populated area into the cursed region known as the Wilderness, and resulted in a single tribe of goblins hiding in a cave for centuries. Furthermore, Jas cursed a group of creatures called the Dragonkin to guard the stone. And by guard, the plaintiff refers to their habit of causing mass destruction to the nearest human settlement whenever anybody uses the Stone. To break free of this curse, the Dragonkin have created corrupted versions of themselves called dragons to act as bodyguards. These dragons have caused massive loss of property and life. Your Honor, the prosecution would like to present several exhibits. The Stone of Jas is one of 12 artifacts. The gods (not the Elder Gods, but the ones worshipped now) drew their power from these artifacts, and are responsible for cataclysmic conflicts. As of the quest "Sliske's Endgame", the jury is on indefinite recess. As Jas explains, the Elder Gods think of mortals and current gods alike as vermin on their food source, the world of Gielinor. Unless the acting World Guardian provides proof of purpose, there's no reason for them to care one way or the other about mortal life and the newer gods.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_86814e94	comment	Your Honor, I would like to bring forth the case of the people of Vana'diel from Final Fantasy XI versus Altana and the Celestial Avatars. Upon creating the world of Vana'diel Altana carelessly left the keys to undoing all of creation, the Mother Crystals, not in scattered places across the planet buried deep under the seas or mountains, but instead she left them easily accessible within hundreds of yalms of each other. And when the Zilart attempted to harness the power of the Mother Crystals nearly obliterating the planet, did she attempt to move the Mother Crystals or even destroy the machinery that the Zilart created? No! She left it all intact setting the stage for the same tragedy to unfold again! Instead she sat back and watched while random people got together and fought back the various schemes that she could not be bothered to acknowledge.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_88383ee7	comment	The prosecution would like to submit to the court the cases of a number of humans in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) where-in they become Neglectful Precursors of much stronger beings than they are themselves. Because of bad initial appearance they dump their creations, which made them hate humanity or seek very cruel ways to become humans, made worse when the Big Bad helps them survive and gain power by feeding them Philosopher's Stones.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_8e93a13d	comment	Phantasy Star: The people of Motavia in Phantasy Star IV would like to file for damages against their predecessors, the space-faring civilization of the first two games. They brought their civilization to Motavia, but after the Great Collapse, they failed to properly clean up their messes and Lost Technology, resulting in Biomonsters spawned from their old bio-systems research facilities and Killer Robots from their manufacturing facilities infesting the entirety of the planet, and the remnants of the old climate control facilities causing environmental degradation and earthquakes. The plaintiff does, however, recognize that the defendants' civilization was dealing with its own problems at the time, and had also been badly weakened by the manipulations of Dark Force and its pawns. On behalf of all generations of Algolians, Chaz Ashley has submitted a claim against the Great Light for creating the Algol system solely as a cage for the Profound Darkness, and humanity as its jailers, and then leaving them with incomplete knowledge of the situation and a Leaking Can of Evil that spawns a Dark Force every millennium. Said appearances of Dark Force inevitably corrupt the entire civilization of Algol over a period of decades or centuries, and resulted in the destruction of Palma and the Great Collapse in Phantasy Star II, wiping out 90% of the system's population. The plaintiff further submits that the defendant has no interest in or concern for humanity's welfare, and that providing backup systems such as the Espers and Rycross was done solely out of its own interest in controlling the Darkness.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_8fda7950	comment	Every last sapient species and subspecies descended from deserted Pak Breeders have had more than sufficient cause to look up exactly how much it would cost them to head to the Core and sue Pak Protectors for their shoddy long term social engineering projects. Too much.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_9068877a	comment	The page quote comes from Red vs. Blue, namely Grif reacting to learning the Temple he just entered has an artifact built by an ancient civilization which happens to be a super weapon, and that those same precursors have built other doomsday devices. Though you can't blame him for not knowing that in the source material, the ancient civilization are very much Abusive Precursors.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_a81325d3	comment	The people of the collective worlds of Final Fantasy wish to file charges against the Lufenian people. The plaintiff also wishes to directly charge Cid Lufaine and Shinryu in this incident. As evidence, we point to the Lufenian War, which was directly responsible for the creation of airship technology, the floating fortress (which was filled with weaponry), the relocation of the crystal of Wind to said fortress, the invention of the War Machine technology, initial contact with the being known as Omega, the invention of Manikins, and the creation of the beings known as Cosmos and Chaos. Cid Lufaine and Shinryu, while not the perpetrators of the original Lufenian conflict are indicted for the following: 1.) Usage of Cosmos and Chaos to involve the innocents of other worlds, 2.) The eventual freeing of Chaos from World B, and the Time Loop he created thereafter, 3.) Imprisoning innocents in their sick war games, in a location known as "World B." 4.) The inhuman treatment of said innocents as cattle to feed Chaos and Shinryu, and 5.) All incidents caused, directly or indirectly, by the actions of Cid Lufaine, Chaos, and Shinryu, who, implicitly, endorsed the atrocities committed by Mateus Palamecia, the Cloud of Darkness, Theodor "Golbez" Harvey, Ex-Death, Kefka Palazzo, Sephiroth, Ultimecia, Kuja, and Jecht, up to and including their willingness to repeatedly restore life to these individuals at the cost of life of the innocent. Though it should be noted, most of the actions committed by Cid of the Lufaine were in the service of country Onrac. Onrac was in a war with another country using devastating weapons of mass destruction. The Onracian military hired Cid as a means of creating weapons to counter this enemy, while the Lufenians with all of their superior technology appeared to not have been directly involved in said war. Therefore the entirety of the Lufenian people cannot be held directly responsible for the actions of one man, specifically Cid of the Lufaine.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_ad622d64	comment	Your Honor, the prosecution would also bring suit against several culprits from the Malazan Book of the Fallen: First, the T'lan Imass. Their ritual sealing of captured Jaghut and Forkrul Assail proved ineffective in the long term as any person with sufficient strength and interest could remove the rock and thus release the trapped being. In addition, their actions directly contributed to the destruction of magic at various locations around the world, which continues to this day. The Jaghut themselves weren't slacking off either. Known for having created some other races just for fun (they didn't need them for anything in particular), some of those sentient or semi-sentient killing machines (the Boles, the Nachts), they then just up and left them to do whatever they pleased, which includes looking for new things to hate and kill because, well, that's what they do best. And not to forget the Azathanai, who can be credited for creating most of the known races in the Malazanverse. Some still have some connection to whatever race they created, but some simply don't care anymore or think their creations deserve what they get.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_b0c4c6b3	comment	Cases against those who came before in Star*Drive are pending. The setting is filled to the brim with ancient alien ruins, some of them quite advanced. Humans of various faiths (Hatire and Ancientist) find religious inspiration in these ruins, but this probably wasn't the intent of the precursors.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_b2700e28	comment	If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: The Emperor has this view of Warhammer 40,000's Old Ones, not deigning to give every other lifeform a proper push towards evolution and fucking up every attempt at actually doing something good. Or, in his words:
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Neglectful Precursors / int_b7093bed	comment	Droners: There was a big interspecies war in the past of the show that apparently wiped out one side entirely. A lot of artifacts from that time remain, including many war machines, some of which still work one way or another.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_bab66e95	comment	The Guardians, in fact, have a noted record for hiding the records of their past failures, even though knowledge of this could prove critical in eventually saving the Universe as a whole, to make themselves look not completely terrible and/or incompetent. Examples of this include the sealed Apokolips campaign (in which hundreds if not thousands of Lanterns were slaughtered against Parademons), the existence of the Parallax Fear Entity (which led to the destruction of the Corps and the near-death of the universe), and most egregiously, the smear campaign against Abin Sur and Ganthet and the sealed records pertaining to the truth about Nekron and the prophecy of the Blackest Night, in which they continuously suppressed vital information and fomented discord within the seven Corps, which were all vital in the banishment of Krona and the end of the Blackest Night.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_bbe06161	comment	The Shee in the Creatures series created the Norns, fuzzy adorable little critters with rudimentary intelligence that they claimed to love as pets. But when they decided it was time to move on to a bigger, round world, they left most of the creatures they had created to die on their home planet.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Craftworld Eldar. The very literal Defectors From Decadence saw what the debauchery of their civilization would result in and tried to stop it. They failed, and as a last resort to survive, they constructed small artificial planets to escape the downfall of their species. That they seem to regard the failure to prevent the heart of their empire turning into The Eye of terror as "Neglectful" and they are now actively trying to fix the damage they've done, the Court therefore infers a plea of guilty, as well as stipulation to a sentence of eternal community service. The Court finds no defect, and the Craftworld Eldar are permitted to proceed as they have. Further, Craftworld representatives have offered an additional penance: upon the extinction of their species, their combined souls will combine to create a new cosmic entity, which they say will destroy the cosmic entity created by their decadence, and hopefully heal the damage of its birth. As we are on the subject of WH40K the Imperium of Man would like to bring forth the Old Ones for judgement. The Old Ones left around a number of sentient species, like the Eldar who Squick-ed a Chaos God into existence and the Orks whose entire culture and existence revolves around killing everything that "isn't orky enough" (which often includes other Orks), and by doing so, inadvertently turned the Immaterium into the hellhole that it was. On the other hand, they died off millions of years before either culture got to the point that it did, and if the backstory is to be believed, were too busy dealing with other, bigger problems. Said "other, bigger problems" would be the Enslavers. Creatures from the Immaterium, they were supposedly responsible for mass extinctions all across the galaxy when they entered real-space in massive numbers in the event known as the Enslaver Plague. (Verdict: Not Guilty! The so-called "Enslaver Plague" is obviously malicious propaganda. Or the galaxy had it coming. Whatever happened or didn't happen, we can all be sure that there was absolutely no mind control involved) They also had to deal with the Necrontyr, a bunch of short-lived jerks living on a radiation-blasted hellhole of a planet who were jealous of the Old Ones' power and immortality, and their sentient gasbag-powered Humongous Mecha "gods" the C'tan. The entire reason the Old Ones created da Orks was to fight them.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_bd1137ca	comment	If it pleases the court, the plaintiff will now present exhibit A from Illuminatus!, which documents the decision by Swift Kick, Inc, a notoriously shoddy planetary construction firm, to shave off costs by making life on Earth mortal, including all possible sentient life forms arising on the planet.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	The people of Chel'el'Sussoloth of Drowtales would like to bring charges against the Dokkalfar kingdoms. They opened nether gates, bringing demonic beings to feast upon our life energy. They squandered their homelands and forced their descendants to live underground and be transformed into monsters! For 1100 years, they then ruled us with an iron fist from afar in their towers above our city. Had they stepped down and agreed to share what they knew, perhaps the recent Nidraa'chal "incident" would never have occurred. Now, when we need them most, they refuse to teach our heroes how to fight the darkness, instead waiting for us to destroy ourselves before deciding it is time to rebuild.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_bff01809	comment	Ladies and gentlemen of this fine jury, The Old Ones' counterparts in Warhammer Fantasy are no better than the 40K version, disappearing shortly after Chaos arrived and leaving their servants the Lizardmen unable to properly run the place and a bunch of unfinished projects that would spiral out of control and create even more problems for those living within.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_c108c9e3	comment	The plaintiff brings the precursors of the Morgaine Cycle to court, having created a system of star gates that slowly tore the fabric of reality apart (This is not known until several hundred years after the network is finished). Eventually they discover this, after which they then proceed to cause an energy cascade that wipes out their entire race, just to destroy the incredibly dangerous gates. Unfortunately, one survives and is copied to create another network by a second precursor race who are almost wiped out warring with each other over whether the gates are dangerous or not. The last member of said race is the titular Morgaine, who embarks on a million-year journey to close all the gates. Some others remain trapped on worlds as Sealed Evil in a Can, and these fall under Abusive Precursors as they typically run slave empires.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_c211d8bf	comment	Also to be tried in absentia: the "Ancient Ones" of Altamid in Star Trek Beyond. The Ancient Ones left behind Bio-Augmentation technology that allowed the user to absorb the life signs of anyone, their own species or otherwise, and thousands, if not millions, of small mining ships that could easily be repurposed as weaponry in the hands of a maniac... like someone who had used the aforementioned Bio-Augmentation technology for too long. The fact The Swarm's only effective strategy is a Zerg Rush prevents starships from adequately defending themselves against it, unless the crew is able to work out that broadcasting loud music over their communications prevents these ships from working together, something most crews don't have time to work out. Moreover, the Ancient Ones fired a Phlebotinum Bomb, capable of completely disintegrating humanoids, into space and hoped no one would get their hands on it; the fact this weapon fell into the hands of a genocidal maniac with a hatred of peace and cooperation proves that they should have carried out an action that ensured its destruction. Your Honor, I submit a charge of reckless endangerment on behalf of following plaintiffs: the surviving crew of the USS Enterprise, Jaylah, and pretty much every surviving resident of Starbase Yorktown. I also submit a charge of negligent homicide on behalf of everyone whose life signs were drained by Captain Balthazar "Krall" Edison, Anderson "Manas" Le, and Jessica "Kalara" Wolff, the casualties of the Battle of Altamid, Ensign Syl, and the casualties of Starbase Yorktown.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Time Lords and various other races throughout Doctor Who. The Court acknowledges the overwhelmingly positive difference the rogue denominated "The Doctor" has come to make in the grand scheme of things, but wishes to examine much more closely the society he hails from: For starters, the Time Lord President-for-Life Rassilon stands accused of multiple charges of genocide, successful deletion of entire races from the timeline, successful deletion of entire continua he judged not favorable to the Time Lords, experimentation on sentients (Time Lords included), countless charges of Mind Rape (including the manipulation that unhinged the Time Lord known as Koschei, alias The Master, making him directly responsible for every act of the madman) and one omnicide attempt. Internal info also reveals multiple purges, mounting evidence of massive racism (seeding life across the Universe to better fit the Time Lord template), and reckless experimentation on - and even more reckless disposal of - sentient weaponry. All in all, every piece of evidence paints him as a paranoid, hypocritical, psychotic individual obsessed with his own mortality and supremacy over all other forms of life.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_c62995ba	comment	The prosecution submits the evidence of Child of the Storm, which underlines the above-mentioned example of the Celestials, who meddle in the fates of lower species at their own whim. While the case of the Atlantean Empire and Asgard's involvement in it would normally be considered a clear-cut case of this trope, giving humans knowledge and technology (primarily Magitek) that they were most definitely not ready for, the prosecution accepts that Asgard has learnt its lesson and most definitely intends not to do it again.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_cd1550c5	comment	Your Honor, the prosecution respectfully wishes in indict The Great Old Ones from the The Dark Tower saga. These precursors left incredibly dangerous artifacts which regularly killed and maimed the people of Mid-World.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_cf69b21e	comment	Your Honor, the prosecution wishes to file suit against The Vok from Beast Wars. While likely not outright precursors like the Quintessons, there is considerable evidence to be presented: At least two of their machines were present on or in the orbit of prehistoric Earth prior to the Beast Wars. While appearing more curious than malevolent in the beginning, by the halfway point of the show, they were clearly shown as openly hostile, and omnicidal. Consider the following: Their second expedition to prehistoric Earth was an experiment to test and gauge the threat level of the Transformers. When the robots failed, the Vok's third machine was revealed - one of Earth's moons turned out to be a heat ray capable of a Class X Apocalypse How event. This machine was used, and, if not for the intervention and sacrifice of Optimus Primal, would have achieved its purpose. Additionally, this device was indeed in orbit long before the arrival of the Transformers. Also, their fourth machine, while not quite as destructive, still posed an enormous threat, once it was captured by Megatron. The security protocols were almost laughably inept at keeping the robots out, much less preventing a hostile takeover. Finally, there is the arrival of the Vok themselves: intent on destroying the reality-breaking criminal Megatron, at a time when doing so would have created an equally damaging rift in time (i.e., the original Megatron's Spark was still inside his body). Furthermore, their lack of willingness to cooperate with, if not downright contempt for, Optimus Primal's warning about these consequences resulted in him nearly being killed.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_cfcbc91d	comment	The mortals of The Scarred Lands franchise vs their Gods. The back story of the series is a war against the amoral creators of the world, the Titans, and their rebellious children, the Gods. The Gods were unable to completely kill the Titans, so they just maimed and imprisoned them. Despite completely obliterating two of the Titans, the other Gods were left mostly whole and just imprisoned. Since then, the remains of the Titans has damaged the land and corrupted countless creatures, even the two who were almost destroyed. Despite the fact that the Gods now rule the world, they haven't shown themselves to be in any hurry to clean up their mess. Perhaps the most noticeable screw-up is what they did to the Titan Kadum, the Father of Monsters. They ripped out his heart, chained him to a rock, and threw him into the ocean. Unable to die, his blood continually seeps out of his chest, corrupting a large part of the ocean and all of the creatures inhabiting it.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_d461f757	comment	The people of Earth would like to bring charges against the Colonials and Cylons of the reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica for abandoning technology and sentencing their descendants to: 140,000 years of struggle to reinvent things such as basic sanitation, agriculture, medicine, education, and the wheel! Sentencing their immediate descendants to the horrors of disease, famine, dying in childbirth, and lack of long-term protection from the environment (Earth was in an ice age, for frak's sake!), possibly hostile natives, and unknown indigenous flora and fauna. The loss of FTL drive and other advanced technologies, the loss of which to the present day (and possibly beyond) leaves us with no way to evacuate the planet in case of an asteroid strike. (And no, you can't blame Lee Adama for everything; the colonials and cylons all thought this was a good idea.) Left no messages or warnings to the descendants that "all of this has happened before and will happen again" if they don't "take care to be nice to our robots" - mainly because by giving up technology their descendants had to wait ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS for someone to reinvent writing. And what is the backup plan? "Oh, we’ll just interbreed with the natives!". Even ignoring you can't tell whether or not you can interbreed by looking at someone, even if Gaius frakking Baltar made the test, then you have no way of knowing whether or not you just exposed yourself to a disease that you have no immunity against, and WITHOUT TECHNOLOGY you have no way to find a cure or at least a vaccine. And that isn't even considering they have no idea whether the natives are even friendly to outsiders. Your Honor, I hereby move that they be found guilty not only of neglectful actions to their distant descendants but also guilty of neglectful actions to their immediate descendants as well. An amicus curiae brief has been filed by council representing Gaius Baltar advising the court that, in the event that the opportunity arises to breed with anything that may end up dooming humanity, Baltar will volunteer to test this to the satisfaction of the court. A point of order has been brought before the court. While Adama mentions that the natives were tested for genetic compatibility before the "backup plan" was even possibly considered as an option, the sample size is not known. Further, any concept of informed consent for this is clearly an impossibility as the natives were faced with beings with powers and abilities far beyond their comprehension, all of whom likely took samples of blood and other bodily fluids. This means that the Cylon and Battlestar humans' "master plans" of ending the war by stripping the Battlestar humanity of all technology and leaving them marooned on the back-water world later known as "Earth" not only introduced untold numbers of genetic defects when the inevitable cross-breeding occurred, but likely created all sorts of blood-letting cults and religions due to the mistaken belief that the "supernatural" entities that came visiting 140,000 years ago came solely for the purpose of harvesting their blood, organs, etc, and offering these body-parts up as a sacrifice would bring the "gods" back. If my clients are to be found guilty, then they refuse to go down alone on this. If they get thrown in the stockade, then at least God and the Head entities should go down with them if not replace them entirely. They've got far more cosmological-level chops than my clients ever did, were interfering tremendously with their lives, and had ample opportunity to influence highly influential members of the community to say this is a bad idea (one of the greatest scientists of the era, and a heroine of the Cylon people). Instead, they seemed to have encouraged the whole abandonment of technology idea, manipulated their lives, and seemingly did not offer any advice to future generations despite the fact that, unlike my clients, they were immortal and didn't have heaps of species-wide post-traumatic stress disorder from years of multiple near-genocides, multiple actual genocides, being cramped up inside ships for years on end with the knowledge you may die at any moment, having to abandon the closest thing to a new home they got, getting betrayed by their siblings, having to deal with their first recognized intra-species conflict, and actually cleaning up Neglectful Precursor-esque messes like their malevolent child/grandchild/sibling robot races.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_d5505073	comment	The Uplift Institute would like to find the lost patrons of humanity and prosecute them extensively for their abandonment of a semi-uplifted species. Such reckless behaviour cannot be tolerated, and an example must be set. Humanity is now a wolfling species and will likely die out within the next few thousand years, given galactic dogma against such species.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_d5b84b32	comment	Potentially the player in Spore. One of the achievements requires them to uplift a certain number of creatures. The easiest way to do this is to just randomly drop monoliths on every planet encountered without sentient life and then forget about it.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_e68decb8	comment	In their exodus from this area of the galaxy, the Precursors of the Star Control series absent-mindedly left behind a humongous battleship armed with superweapons that can wipe out entire fleets with each shot. Naturally, the enslaving Ur-Quan Kzer-Za stumble across it, naming it Sa-Matra. Among the numerous other artifacts the Precursors left behind are: bombs used as planeteering tools (one is used to put a hole in the outer layers of a star, causing it to flare like a supernova and sterilizing the entire inhabited system, and another is deemed powerful enough to destroy the Sa-Matra only after amplifying modifications are added by the Chmrr), the Mycon (biological planeteering tools that evolved into a race of fungi who terraform inhabited water worlds by force to their own scorching ideal conditions), and Inter-Dimensional-Fatigue-wave-generating devices (the study of which gets the Androsynth eaten by Lovecraftian extradimensional horrors). Arguably an act of self-defense. Word of God has stated that the sequel was always intended to explain what happened to the Precursors. Despite the fact that the original creators lost control over the IP before making said sequel; to some extent, the (non-canon) sequel Star Control 3 DID justify things. The Precursors had been searching for a way to survive a galaxy-wide genocidal sweep of sentient species from even more powerful space entities and FAILED to come up with a combative method of survival despite said superweapons.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_e6c59cd1	comment	Quake IV exposits that the main villain, the Strogg are supposedly an initiative that broke free of its creators after a major war somewhere in the galaxy. Now the Strogg have become a menace to civilizations and invade to assimilate organisms into their war machine.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_e9e37e8	comment	Your Honor, the prosecution would like to bring suit against the Heechee of the Heechee Saga, who are responsible for leaving behind advanced technology when fleeing from the Assassins, which was bound to be found by a younger race and, without proper instructions on the use, would likely end up misusing it to disastrous ends. Furthermore, the continuous use of said technology is what attracted the attention of the Assassins toward the Heechee in the first place, which means that, by leaving such technology for anyone to use, the Heechee have doomed an unfortunate young race (namely, humanity) to extinction.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_eb0aba59	comment	An amicus curiae brief has been filed by council representing Gaius Baltar advising the court that, in the event that the opportunity arises to breed with anything that may end up dooming humanity, Baltar will volunteer to test this to the satisfaction of the court.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda brings a case against the Remnant builders, later identified as the Jardaan, who thanks to a lack of concrete evidence zigzag between here and Benevolent Precursors. Some four hundred years before, they created the angara, apparently either because they could, or for a process they dubbed "Renewal", which involved terraforming an entire stellar cluster. Unfortunately, they got into a fight with an unidentified race who dropped a Negative Space Wedgie on them, causing the Jardaan to declare "Oh, Crap! Let's get out of here" and run for it, leaving the control hub for their terraforming network behind. The recordings found suggest they did plan to come back sooner or later, but four hundred years on there's not been a peep from them... meanwhile, the angara were left behind on planets with malfunctioning terraforming tech, with no instructions, to make do.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_f3368832	comment	Buffyverse: The prosecution brings forth charges against "The Powers That Be". All kinds of Big Bads and Monsters of the Week returned from previous 'defeats' on cue. The descendants and apprentices of The Shadow Men would go on to form the Watchers Council. Good job on that one, guys.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_f481d3e4	comment	Your honour, my clients, the species known as 'homo sapiens or humanity' wish to file charges against the species known only as 'engineers' as portrayed in Prometheus. Having created humanity through an unsupervised and uncontrolled genetic experiment, these engineers then left clues as to their location on humanity's homeworld. When humans followed these clues, they became the victims of advanced bio-weapons that had been left lying about by the engineers in clear violation of basic safety regulations. Furthermore, the engineers are responsible for the creation of the species known as 'xenomorph', which presents a clear and present danger to all those who encounter it and can be found in multiple locations around the galaxy as a direct result of poor oversight.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_f74b5f80	comment	The races of Babylon 5 universe vs the Shadows and Vorlons throughout their incarnations. Your honor, the defense argues that the Vorlons directly explaining themselves to the Mimbari had disastrous consequences and that a hands-off approach was a logical next step, even if a misstep.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_fb9c177d	comment	Charges have been found and filed against the Transformers being known as Primus: the defendant failed to properly expunge a deadly form of reproduction from the early Transformer ancestors, leading to the creation of the Swarm, an Omnicidal Maniac Eldritch Abomination that nearly destroyed several civilizations across the galaxy, including the modern-day Transformers. The defendant also created the Fallen, a creature that oversaw the universal element of entropy, an element that the defendant's brother and eternal enemy Unicron is the embodiment of, essentially handing the Chaos Bringer his very own avatar to do his bidding with. In short, thanks to the defendant's absentmindedness, he had an indirect hand in creating two of the Transformers' worst enemies, of whom only one had been "neutralized" (although the Swarm's "purified" form of the Vok could arguably be considered just as nasty as their previous selves), while the other is still at large and continues to plague the defendant's creations, on occasion. The defendant also is highly reluctant to wake himself unless there is a significant and direct threat either from Unicron himself, or against the defendant's person, and even then, he uses proxies to do the dirty work, for him; for instance, he allowed the Transformers to wage a civil war that lasted aeons and devastated and drained their home planet - the defendant's body - almost to destruction, with very little repercussions, but when Unicron began actively hunting down and consuming the sparks of the Transformers, thus weakening the defendant's power, the defendant hired one of the remaining Transformers to form an army against Unicron, and allowed him to choose a scant 2 soldiers from time and space to fill that army with.
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Neglectful Precursors / int_fc0ad3a5	comment	The Eloh, the ancient precursors of Tabula Rasa, created a superscience capable of manipulating energy and matter by acts of will. They then went through interstellar space handing this stuff out randomly. When this didn't end well - surprise, surprise - they annihilated the entire military of the first race to rise against them, the Thrax, firmly cementing xenophobia. Then a small faction called the Neph went and enslaved the Thrax and went on a war against the rest of the universe to make sure no one would ever be their equals again, starting with the mainstream Eloh. Rather than actually fighting back or enlisting (or even warning) the sentient races across the universe, the Eloh just tossed various pieces of Applied Phlebotinum on random populated and unpopulated worlds. At least the Sages of the Zelda series bothered to seal away the evil in a can.
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Tabula Rasa (Video Game)	hasFeature	Neglectful Precursors / int_fc0ad3a5
Neglectful Precursors / int_ff536b75	type	Neglectful Precursors
Neglectful Precursors / int_ff536b75	comment	The Consu from the Old Man's War Universe have created the sentient race Obin without a sense of consciousness. Even though it turns out the Consu consider lacking consciousness to be an ideal state of being, the fact that they never told the Obin this little fact and treated the Obin like a bunch of irritating insects who should stop asking questions definitely qualifies them as neglectful.
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Old Man's War	hasFeature	Neglectful Precursors / int_ff536b75
Neglectful Precursors / int_ff5835e3	type	Neglectful Precursors
Neglectful Precursors / int_ff5835e3	comment	The prosecution submits the case of extra-dimensional aliens seen in Fractured (SovereignGFC) and its sequel, Origins. While they had noble goals, their selfishness and a species-wide fight over how to interpret their own shared faith resulted in some rather poor decision-making, as follows: Leaving defenses against Sealed Evil in a Can, but no instructions on how to use them, who can use them, or under what circumstances these defenses might be needed. On that note, not saying what the Sealed Evil in a Can is, or what might serve as a "can-opener." Playing The Omniscient Council of Vagueness card rather than interacting directly with lesser races (which they did at least one Alternate Universe—where the evil is defeated thanks in part to this involvement, no less!). Not anticipating the consequences of creating a Physical God to enforce their own rules—mainly that said entity might view them to be in violation of these rules... ...and then wiping that being's memory when all didn't go as planned, creating a Knight Templar Anti-Villain Well-Intentioned Extremist instead.
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Fractured (SovereignGFC) (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Neglectful Precursors / int_ff5835e3

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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
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The Dark Tower / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
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The Sun Eater / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
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Wing Commander: Privateer (Video Game) / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
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