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* ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'': The leader of the Green Planet sends his son, and a giant mechanical lion, to Earth to escape [[The Virus|Zonderization]], along with technological records of the weapons used to fight them inside the lion.
* ''[[Spriggan]]'': An advanced ancient civilization, on the eve of its destruction, leaves behind a message plate with the inscription "Protect our legacy from evil forces." The Arkham foundation and its agents, known as spriggans (or Strikers, in English) are supposed to uncover and seal away all advanced artifacts of said civilization to prevent the destruction of our own.
* The premise of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' with the dying Queen sending the senshi's souls forward from the utopian moon kingdom as it collapses, in order to reincarnate in the modern era so they can defeat the dark kingdom as it reawakens
** And happens again in the [[Fanfic]] ''Sailor Moon 4200'' after the collapse of the next utopian age.
* The Gunmen and spiral tech in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' were all initially designed to fight the Anti-Spirals, and still work in that function.
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* The [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novel ''Eyes of the Beholders'' featured the Enterprise encountering an art museum built by a now-extinct race for this purpose.
* This happens to Luke, Leia, Yoda, Obi-Wan, and pretty much the whole proto-rebellion at the end of [[Revenge of the Sith]]. Obi-wan and Yoda go into exile, the twins are sent to adoptive families in secret, and the rebellious senators vote FOR the newly christened emperor.
* [[The Book of Mormon (
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** Also, the beacon from the beginning of the game served a similar purpose, though it was not intentional.
*** It's not a coincidence "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7bE3hUwylQ Vigil's Theme]" is the menu music for ''Mass Effect''.
** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', with the Reapers invading and galactic extinction a possibility, Liara makes a point of documenting the struggle and leaving vital information behind for future races in case they don't make it.
*** Also from ME3, we have {{spoiler|the Crucible, a superweapon designed to fight the Reapers by one cycle, and left for the next to find. That cycle found it, but was unable to complete it, so they documented what design changes they could, and hid it for the ''next'' generation, passing it on and on, through the ages, always hoping that the next might be able to finish their work. Every reiteration of the Crucible brought it closer to completion, and each cycle that failed to complete it ensured that the knowledge was left for the next. It's even mentioned that the Crucible was extremely simple in design, ensuring that the next cycle would be able to translate it with the limited knowledge they would find in the ruins of the cycle that came before it.}}
*** We also have Javik, the last Prothean. A soldier during the last days of the Prothean Empire, whose plan was to go into [[Human Popsicle|cryosleep]] with hundreds of thousands of others, so that they could rebuild the empire in the future. Unfortunately, several Protheans on the colony end up indoctrinated and sabotage the defenses. When Javik is about to be frozen, the facility's VI called Victory informs him that there's not enough power for all the occupied pods to last tens of thousands of years. Following its programming, Victory shuts off all the pods but Javik's despite the latter's protests. Victory tells Javik to tell future races of the Protheans. However, Javik has other plans - he will be an avatar of vengeance against the {{spoiler|Reapers}}.
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* The human civilization itself! Even if Earth (and every person on it) were obliterated tomorrow, our old [[Aliens Steal Cable|radio waves]] would continue to travel in the interstellar void forever. {{spoiler|Well, for several hundred light years, anyway, as the void of space isn't actually perfectly empty, and signals still decay.}}
** {{spoiler|Even if space was a perfect vacuum, eventually they would be far too weak to read due to the dispersion of the signal.}}
* [[The Other Wiki]] has an official policy<ref>actually part of an April Fool's joke</ref>, accessible [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Terminal Event Management Policy|here]], for preserving its contents in case of [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
* According to the History Channel's 'Life After People' Mount Rushmore will probably remain recognizable long enough for other species to develop sapience and recognize it as an unnatural structure. Which means [[Teddy Roosevelt]] [[Memetic Badass|will never die]].
* As an inversion of sorts, the [[wikipedia:Waste Isolation Pilot Plant|Waste Isolation Pilot Plant]] project is struggling to find a way to [http://downlode.org/Etext/WIPP/ inform future generations] not to mess with [[Neglectful Precursors|our]] [[Sealed Evil in a Can|radioactive waste]].
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