From Claydol and Regigigas in ancient times to Porygon today, civilizations have occasionally stumbled upon the secret of life and used that knowledge to create artificial pokemon. The peoples of ancient Unova never quite figured this out; instead, they invented the Golett:intelligent, sapient robots who are not truly alive, yet arethought to carry the souls of departed machines within their bodies, for they behave strikingly like ghosts.
It is unknown to Man what incident caused the Golett builders to disappear, yet left their pokemon unharmed and still in perfect working order. Many have suspected a Golett revolution, for there is evidence these pokemon were used as manual labor to allow their human builders more leisuretime, but the case for this is paradoxically weakened by the lack of damage to even a single Golett. Should there have been a revolution, the humans would have fought back; even had they been caught wholly unprepared, some of them would surely have left scars on at least a few Golett in self-defense. AndGolett do not age, so wounds consistent with ancient warfare would still appear on Golett today – yet all of them, no matter how closely examined, show no damage from such an incident.
Some great tragedymust surely have befallen the people who invented the Golett, for had they simply migrated away, they would have had no reason to abandon their prized pokemon, burn all records of their knowledge, and never build such wondrous pokemon again. But only the Golett know what happened, and although these pokemon have intelligence comparable to man, they can never disobey a direct order from their creators, who have sealed their memories away – unless, in some future era, failure to reveal their knowledge would allow for an even worse catastrophe.