The Iconians are an ancient race and one of the oldest known space faring civilizations save for the Precursors. They had once served the Precursor race known as the Dread Lords until the Yor, advanced cybernetic beings created by the Iconians, revolted upon them and purged them from their homeworld of Iconia. They have only recently resurfaced as the Iconian Refuge, a relatively small faction made up of once-nomadic Iconians that had escaped the carnage that befell their homeworld.