The Precursors: World Building Project

Stonehenge not as a ceremonial or religious monument, but as the surviving fragment of a vast, technologically advanced civilization that thrived during the Neolithic and Bronze Age transition. The Precursors were not primitive builders shaping stones with rudimentary tools, but engineers of a forgotten age who possessed fuel-powered vehicles, energy manipulation, and knowledge now erased by repeated cataclysmic cycles.
In this project I am aiming to reconstruct their world: to visualize the environments they lived in, the structures they erected, and the vehicles that defined their movement and power.

Narrative Foundation
• Stonehenge as an Energy Nexus:
Instead of a religious monument, Stonehenge functioned as a convergence reactor, a site that channelled and distributed energy across the landscape. The massive stones acted as harmonic stabilizers, designed to resonate with forces buried beneath the earth and captured from celestial alignments.
• Civilization in Transition:
The Neolithic-Bronze Age society wasn’t advancing toward technology, it was declining from it. The Precursors inherited tools and vehicles from a golden age now lost, desperately repurposing them while natural disasters and internal conflicts led to their downfall.
• Vehicles as Relics of Power:
Fuel-powered machines existed, though not in abundance. They were hybrid creations: part functional technology, part ritual object, blending engineering with symbolic design. Imagine crude-looking, wheeled or crawler vehicles, but ornamented with metal engravings so they would harmonize with the structures they serviced.

My entry for the "Create Your Own Reality" challenge.