Ancients Foundation

The Ancients Foundation is an Imperial research agency that coordinates and directs study of the more technologically advanced precursor society of the Ancients, of which whom the being known as Yaskoydray was the most eminently well known member.

• It is a secondary office branch of the Emperor's Concerns.
• It is tasked with study and consolidations of knowledge of the Ancients.

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Please refer to the following AAB Library Data articles for related information:
Xenoarchaeology:

• Ancients
  • Ancients Foundation
  • Ancients Site
  • Archeologicals
  • Artifacts
  • Biofact
  • Ecofact
• Precursors
  • Ascendants
  • Die Back World
  • Extinct Species
  • Primordials
  • Transcendents
• Sophontology
  • Extilligence
  • Intelligence
  • NIL
  • Protosophont
  • Sapient
  • Sentient
  • Sophont

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Description (Specifications)

The foundation is funded by the Third Imperium and is an important part of the Offices of the Emperor, a part of the Imperial Bureaucracy.

Eminent Domain of Artifacts

No information yet available.

Classes of Artifacts

No information yet available.

• Class A Artifact
• Class B Artifact
• Class C Artifact
• Class D Artifact
• Class E Artifact
• Class X Artifact
• Class Y Artifact

History & Background (Dossier)

Even the earliest Emperors knew of the technological miracles of the Ancients as did their predecessors in the Ziru Sirka and Rule of Man. It is not certain exactly when the Ancients Foundation was founded, but every Emperor clearly desired these advanced technologies.

Most historians believe that Artemsus founded the first official Ancients Foundation and brought it out from secrecy into the public eye. Of course, much of the foundation's work is still conducted under conditions of the utmost secrecy, but many parts of it involve public researchers from across Charted Space and that includes massive coordination of interstellar efforts across the major races done by the Educational Institutes.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science