Sen hadn't lied about one thing: they were an old race.

Before human civilization, for there were races far older than Man.

Kukulkan who came to them from still an older race.

They're an old race and much of their will to succeed has vanished.

The blood of the old fair race was strong within her.

But I have told you that we are a very old race and a long-lived one.

They had been an old race ten million years before.

And the old race had been unable to withstand it.

The problem, you see, was that one member of the old race enjoyed playing God too much.

Each old race received at least one new unit, sometimes several.