Question: Who is more powerful than the Old Ones in the Palladium Books?
Context: In the various game settings of Palladium Books, Alien Intelligences are fictional, vastly powerful beings of unknown origin that are stated to be a combination of equal parts spirit, magical energy, and physical flesh.  They are said to exist on different planes of existence simultaneously, and in the Palladium hierarchy of powers, most Alien Intelligences, apart from the Vampire Intelligences, are more powerful than the mightiest Gods in Palladium.  In fact, some of the most powerful Gods of the Palladium Megaverse were themselves spawned by the Alien Intelligences. The Valley of the Pharaohs is a role-playing game written by Matthew Balent and published by Palladium Books in September 1983.  Released several years before Palladium established the Megaversal system, uniting all of its game lines under a single ruleset, the mechanics of "Valley of the Pharaohs" differ in many respects from the one currently used in Palladium role-playing games.  It has been out of print for more than 25 years. Bill Coffin is a writer of novels and role-playing games in the fantasy and science fiction genres.  Perhaps best known for his work at Palladium Books from July 1998 through May 2002, he made significant contributions to several of Palladium's game series, most notably "Palladium Fantasy", but also "Heroes Unlimited" and "Rifts", and created his own game, "Systems Failure". The Old Ones (sometimes referred to in Palladium Books publications as the Great Old Ones or the Unnameable Beings) are a fictional race of Alien Intelligences within the megaversal setting of Palladium Books' game module PFRPG.  The Old Ones are the most powerful forces ever to have existed in the various Palladium game settings, and their power dwarfs that of 'ordinary' Alien Intelligences, beings which are in general far more powerful than the gods themselves. The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) or Weird Tales from the Old Ones is a webcomic by François Launet, which chronicles the "daily" lives of the Great Old Ones, including Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and Yog-Sothoth, among others.  It takes a lighthearted view of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos to inspire laughter rather than the more usual soul-blasting horror.  The comic was used as the basis of the second expansion set to the Cthulhu Mythos themed version of Steve Jackson Games' card game "Munchkin". This is a list of all the antagonists and protagonists in "The Power of Five" series by Anthony Horowitz.  The series chronicles the war between the Old Ones and the Five Gatekeepers.  The Five are Matthew Freeman/Jesus, Pedro/Inti, Scott and Jamie Tyler (Flint and Sapling) and Scarlett Adams (Scar, or Lin Mo, the Chinese goddess of the sea).  The Old Ones ruled the world for eighty years at the dawn of humanity, but the Five defeated them, and threw them into Hell, causing the demons to await their return for millennia.  Two gates were built in between Earth and Hell to keep the Old Ones out - these are the focus of the series and consist of Raven's Gate, and the Nazca Desert, which is the second gate. In the Buffyverse, the Old Ones are the extremely powerful, pure-breed demons that once dominated Earth before humankind appeared.  Illyria is one of these demons (though its real form was revealed only in an illustration) while it's more than likely that Jasmine and her kind (The Powers That Be) ascended to their higher plane because of the growing malevolence of these warring demons.  It's also possible that the Powers that Be were part of the same race but shared a different philosophy than the other Old Ones. The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game (often shortened to Palladium Fantasy or PFRPG) is a game produced by Palladium Books.  It is set in the Palladium world (use of the unofficial name "Palladia" is discouraged by the publisher) some 10,000 years after a great war between the elves and dwarves.  First published in July 1983 as "The Palladium Role-Playing Game", the "Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game" saw a second edition in April 1996.  The two are largely compatible, though the second edition uses a later iteration of Palladium's ruleset to be more compatible with the rest of their Megaverse. Scaphyglottis is a genus of orchids native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America and parts of the Caribbean.  The current concept of this genus is the result of combining several genera which have been described at various times.  The concept is characterized by the growth habit: not only are new pseudobulbs added at the base of the old ones (as is typical of sympodial orchids), but new pseudobulbs also grow at the apices of the old ones.  Many species are quite similar and difficult to distinguish, but some are clearly distinct.  A few have showy colors.  The genus comprises nearly 70 species. Heroes Unlimited is a superhero role-playing game written by Kevin Siembieda and first published by Palladium Books in 1984.  The game is based upon the Palladium Books Megaversal system and is compatible with other games that use the Palladium system.
Answer: Vampire Intelligences,