The Old Culture were an ancient civilization that existed within the galaxy thousands of years before the rise of the United Federation of Planets. The history of the species was unknown with only artifacts left behind as proof of their existence. One of their colonies was the cold dead world called Faramond. Archaeologists examined the ruins and wondered why the ancient civilization made a base on the planet. There were no structures of any kind on the planet that supported a spacefaring civilization which further added to the mystery.