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* ''{{VideoGame/Warframe}}'' has the [[AbusivePrescursors Orokin]] - they had achieved the greatest technological level that humanity ever reached in practically all fields, to the point that the original 'Prime' variants of weapons and Warframes are [[SuperPrototype significantly stronger]] than their modern recreations - they also basically ran an extremely classist feudal society where the nobility held all power and hoarded all technology for themselves and used it for hedonistic reasons like extending their lifetime indefinetly or creating entire slave clone races to serve them. They were also extremely suspicious and wary of machines capable of working on their own, opting to use hordes of previously mentioned inbred slave clones for automation or [[AndIMustScream digitizing the brains of humans to turn them into AI assistants as punishment]]. The higher ranks of the Orokin nobility are almost universally depicted as sociopaths that have completely divorced themselves from things like human empathy or even pragmatical governance. The one time they did try creating autonomous drones in order to colonize other solar systems (because they were slowly but surely destroying the Origin system), their fears ended up being correct and the drones rose up in rebellion against their creators...but only because they gained sentience and realized that their creators would ''[[SelfFulfillingProphecy also ruin other worlds]]'' if left unchecked. Despite all their advanced technology, they had regressed humanity to a culturally more barbaric and selfish era, and the consequences of their actions still affect the system in the present. [[AssholeVictim Their destruction is mourned by almost nobody]].

* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Some of the civilisations of Skartaris have access to advanced Atlantean technology, but no understanding of how it actually works.