Precursor Race

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==Summary==
Note: This profile contains spoilers for Subnautica: Below Zero
The Precursor Race (also known as the Architects in Subnautica: Below Zero) is a highly advanced space-faring species that arrived on Planet 4546B nearly a thousand years before the events of Subnautica, and are indirectly responsible for setting the plot of the game in motion due to the Aurora being shot down by the The Quarantine Enforcement Platform. While traveling, they came across the seemingly incurable Krar Bacterium, to which they would move from planet to planet looking for a cure, eventually finding it in the eggs of a Sea Emperor Leviathan. However, they were unable to synthesize a cure due to the eggs' long incubation period, so they opted to quarantine the entire planet, with Enforcement Platforms firing down any prospecting spaceships nearby.
In Subnautica: Below Zero, a member of the species is featured prominently in the story, calling itself "Al-An".
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: | to , with the Quarantine Enforcement Platform and for 4546B facilities overall | At least , possibly 
Key: Precursors/Architects and Bio-engineered Organisms | Most Technology/Weapons | Doomsday Device
Civilization Type: Interstellar Civilization
Name: Precursor Race, the Precursors, the Architects
Origin: Subnautica
Classification: Unknown Space-Faring Race/Civilization that formerly colonized 4546B
Kardashev Level: Type 0, likely higher
Age: At least several thousand years (Strongly implied to have visited the Earth in Mongol and Ancient Chinese Dynasties)
Population: Unknown, likely numbers in the billions
Territory: At least several Solar Systems (Visited both Earth and 4546B, implied to have colonized many more planets in many other Solar Systems after that)
Technology/Abilities: Spaceflight, Universal Translators, Bioengineering entirely new organisms (Can develop creatures with Bioluminescence, Teleportation, Portal Creation, BFR, Longevity/Immortality (Types 4 and 9. Architects can pass their consciousness like data to other storage units and stay there for millennia, and if destroyed can always use subservient technology to build a new body for them), Radar, Resistance to disease, heat, and Time Manipulation. Al-An claims his kind can travel through space and time.), Self-Aware AI and Nanotechnology (Al-An can manipulate technology in such a fashion, being even capable of creating a ship that can take interstellar journeys), Telepathy (Al-An could enter Robin's mind), Various Ionic and Nuclear-Based Energy Weapons that can destroy matter, Cyborgization (Animals they have created such as Warpers are partially composed of technology), Holographic Projectors, Sonic Deterrents, Forcefields (Almost all of their facilities' entry ways are protected by forcefields. In an early version of Below Zero, the Architects had the technology to surround the planet with a barrier strong enough to deter rockets, as a simple quarantine measure.), Planetary Destruction Devices, Teleportation, Various forms of radar, disease tracking, sonar, etc
Attack Potency: Wall level (Animals they have engineered, such as Warpers, can easily harm The Survivor. Al-An's body should be on this level by virtue of size) | Small Town level+ to Town level (Much of their technology is powered by one or more Ion Crystals, which contain the equivalent ionic energy of 5 kilotons of TNT). City level+ with the Quarantine Enforcement Platform () and Mountain level for 4546B facilities overall (When compared to all the energy being manipulated on 4546B, the Quarantine Enforcement Platform only uses 35% of the total energy, which would translate to 285.7 megatons) | At least Planet level (Stated that it would easily obliterate an entire planet), possibly Solar System level (Stated that the blast would also take out much of the Solar System along with it)
Power Source: Ion Cubes, Thermal Energy, Presumably Nuclear Energy
Industrial Capacity: Extremely High (Can develop new species as the Warpers and nanotechnology in relatively short amounts of time)
Military Prowess: Unknown (Was implied to have a military or armed force, however the size would be unknown)
Notable Individuals: Warpers, Alien Robots, Al-An
Weaknesses: May have weaknesses in dealing with sufficiently advanced diseases, as they couldn't find any cure for the Kharaa Bacteria for nearly a millennia
==Gallery==
Artifact_Statue_Deep_Lilypads.png|A statue
StatueIcon.png|Another statue
Al-An.png|A member of the species in a replacement body (not its original appearance) dubbed "Al-An" as seen in Subnautica: Below Zero
==Notable Matchups==
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