The Great Builders are an ancient, advanced race believed by the Choblik to have existed a long time ago. They are believed to have been responsible for the Choblik's cybernetic enhancements. Additionally, the Choblik attribute a great number of unexplained phenomena to the Great Builders, similar to the way that races such as Humans and Bajorans attribute unexplained phenomena to gods. However, the Choblik believe only in empirical evidence as a method for understanding of the universe, and they consider their belief in the Great Builders to be more empirical than the beliefs of other cultures. The actual identity of the Great Builders is unknown. (TTN novel: Orion's Hounds)