From page 49 of Excavator Monthly Compendium. In this commonly held story, new era people believe that the ancient ones destroyed their civilization when the ultra rich swept away national control, removed democracy, and caused a Great War to dominate those who would not be their slaves. Things didn’t go as the globalists expected, with the rise of mutants and murderous machines, all fell to ruin. Some of those elites went underground, and even two hundred years later, they once more work toward mastery over the surface dwellers. Learn more about this 260 page source book here: https://www.outlandarts.com/TME-excavator-monthly-compendium.htm