Secret Jackalope 2020 - Table of Lost Races

Summary: My entry for the Secret Jackalope 2020 community event over on the OSR Discord. The request in question was as follows:

"A random generator of "lost races": origin, features, technology/magic/artifacts, vice, reason of disappearance/decline, how many of them remains and in what form? Maybe put this on a d6 (or d10) table, with a column for each detail. Pulp, early science fantasy style."

- by evil scientist of Eldritch Fields

I'll be entirely honest, pulpy science fantasy is not my forte. Although I find it fascinating and intriguing, I have severe difficulty crafting solid setting elements and stories for the genre. I ended up making a few adjustments to the request, some bits I skipped, but some other things were added instead (like the "Structural and environmental legacy"). The table ended up rather huge, so I cut it in two separate tables just so that it could fit the width of the blog.

No doubt that this was an interesting challenge, so I hope that a particularly Evil Scientist and the most holy Jackalope will be pleased! Let me know your thoughts.

Two notes regarding specific table entries:

...* - roll "Name" column again

_____* - roll "Social structure" and "Name" column again (re-roll if result is the same as previously rolled)

d10	Social structure	Name	Origin	Description
1.	Roaming Tribes of ...*	Xia-Hes	Ambrosia-9 Cluster	Cyan-skinned humanoids with 7 eyes
2.	The Last Colony of ...*	Hoogluk	The floating rings of the Dark Star	Invisible cyclopean giants with four hands, two heads and three brains
3.	The Discovered Society of ...*	Omega Prime	The Tri-Moon Constellation	Telepathic mantis-men with angelic wings of blue cobalt feathers
4.	The …* Molecular Raiders	Zuoqosz	Decomposing Plains of Shaghar	Benign ephemeral humanoids with spider heads
5.	…*, The Solar Cabals	Terra Peregrinator	The Boiling Swamplands	Beings of pure dark matter made flesh
6.	Shattered Clans of …*	Ghu-rlok	Underdeeps of Molten Nova-45	Sentient Star-Rocks sculpted as a caricature of the human form
7.	Consolidated Nations of ...*	Wyrloom	The Inner- Plannar Void	Centipede-folk with human hands on each limb and the head of a shrimp
8.	Lunar Hordes of ...*	Ska^thar-i	The spawning vats of _____*	Gaseous organisms wearing space suits with polycarbonated spheroidal dome helmets
9.	…*, The Sprawling Hive-Mind	Gweedonyans	Wastes of the Purple Sands	Feline anthropomorphs heavily enchanced with Psyberware
10.	The Drifting Fleets of ...*	Fei-tryn^a	Dried Reefs of the Evaporated Sea	Adamantine techno-primates controlled by C.S.N.M. (Central Synaptic Network Mother)

d10	Reason for decline	Remaining	Architectural and environmental legacy	Technology/Artifacts left behind
1.	Annihilated in a nuclear civil war	Completely extinct, some things are simply beyond salvation	The Inverted Gardens of Spi-ur	FleshGrafter-395 gun
2.	Slowly whithered away over time, due to an elder curse cast long ago	Splintered and assimilated into various other tribes	The Apotheosis Frequency Antennae	Semi-functional historical archiver drone with 36% memory fragmented correctly. Pass-key required
3.	Self-sacrificed to repel a non-euclidean ancient being	Last living member ascended to godhood	Hanging Luminous Spires of the planetar underbelly	Bio-Vat Capsules
4.	Mass suicide, reason unknown	Exiled from the star system	The White Spiral of the Abscess Forest	CO3 Life ray cannon
5.	Vital parts of natural habitat tainted beyond repair	A handful of wandering elders	The Derelict Hovering Sky-City	Dark Matter Manipulator beam
6.	Exterminated by _____*	Unknown, but occassional violent encounters have been logged	Splintered Dome of the Southern Frost-land	UNIVAC-0 machine with label “Codex Terranicus”
7.	Ripped out of reality after a botched attempt to artificially create a wormhole	Extinct and almost entirely erased by time	No structures, instead they left massive gravitational distortions across the entire planet	The Translucent Radio Emitter 707
8.	Collective apotheosis of the majority of members, at the expense of others who perished	Last surviving pair of the species is protected by _____*	Floating orbital debris around the Hexatonal Mountains	None, they despised their own inventions
9.	Collateral damage as a result of a conflict between _____* and _____*	Presumed extinct, but a sighting of one member of the race has been reported on Delta-12 Moon	The only legacy left is an unleashed toxic vapor storm which harbors all kinds of mutated viral contagions	A decaying space-suit with a faintly buzzing, undecipherable radio transmittion in its headset
10.	Self-inflicted societal collapse, reasons unknown	Enslaved and decimated by _____*	A series of protective vibrating rings around a wormhole orbiting the planet	The Voidling Star-Seeds