Iconians

The Iconians are an ancient, highly advanced interstellar civilization known primarily through surviving technologies—portals/gateways, automated control consoles, and remote probes—whose artifacts in the current material act as autonomous threats able to rewrite ship functions, enable instant travel, and emit defensive energies. Cultural memory applies mythic epithets (e.g., 'Demons of Air and Darkness') to the Iconians, framing them as terrifying aerial/otherworldly invaders; this epithet is a cultural descriptor/alias rather than a separate organized body.