Progenitor

A Progenitor was a member of a now extinct race that build the Jumpgates for faster-than-light, interstellar space travel. The Progenitors also built the artificial, mechanical race of robots called Golems.

Progenitors, according to the Golem robots, were divided into three basic factions: the Monotheists, the Neoatheists, and the Henotheists. The Progenitor religious systems have influenced the faiths of the modern-day Seven Races, including Golems, Humans, Dwarfs, Elfs, Ratlings, Oni, and Orks.

Progenitors were tall humanoids with pale white skin and bald heads. They were believed to possess psionic powers of the mind, and at some point in their history ceased producing offspring by natural sexual intercourse and natural births and replaced it with artificial cloning.