The Dread Lords are a great and terrible precursor species from the turn based strategy game, Galactic Civilizations 2: Dread Lords. They are an aggressor species who had battled another precursor race, the noble Arnor, in a terrible war many years ago. Before the Dread Lords could claim final victory, the Arnor sealed the entire Dread Lord fleet into a great Arnorian Device, which had allowed the younger races to ascend to space over the millions of years.