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Ported to OBJ from the fan created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original design by Stephen V. Cole and the Amarillo Design Bureau (ADB) for the Star Fleet Battles (SFB) tabletop sci-fi war game. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The Hydrans were created for SFB back in the day in order to add more variety to the alien species in the game, and were carried over when SFB was used as the basis for the SFC video games. They are humanoid, with their physiology having both amphibian and mammalian elements but they are also methane breathers, which means they can't exist in the same environment as humans and vice versa. They can normally be found living in the atmosphere of gas giants either on specially built structures or native planetary constructs ("floating continents," et al) that exist within those atmospheres. They have three eyes, three arms and legs (like an Edoan), three genders (male, female, "matriarchal"), and as might be expected almost everything in their culture revolves around everything being in triplicate. They are always at war with their neighbors, the Klingons and Lyrans, who both covet and desire to possess certain parts of the territory that the Hydrans claim as their own. They are an advanced spacefaring species in their own right who discovered time travel technology long before the Federation and the Klingon Empire (although they have studiously avoided its use) and their chief weapon is the hellbore, a fusion cannon type weapon of great power that was slower-firing than photon torpedoes but had the potential to cause greater damage due to the enveloping nature of its detonation upon impact. They were conquered twice in the past by joint Klingon-Lyran expeditions and were at one point subjugated under Klingon rule for about five decades, but the Klingons found them difficult to govern given that they were methane breathers and had to rule from a distance, which gave the Hydrans enough space over time to build up the necessary resources to revolt and successfully expel their Klingon overlords. With regards to the present small Hydran spacecraft designs suitably adapted for the natural environments of other species are one of their more popular exports, given their ruggedness and durability, and elements of their unique starship technologies and weaponry have also been copied and adapted for use by other interstellar powers (with the Hydrans doing so in turn, nudge-nudge).

Unlike the standard freighters of many other interstellar powers, which were usually built around two (or more) of their largest standard transport containers, comparable Hydran fleet freighters were solid complete transport vessels from bow to stern. The above image is of a typical classic Hydran fleet standard small freighter of the late TOS/TAS era.

This is semi-canon, as it comes from the SFB gaming continuity.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the fan created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original design by Stephen V. Cole and the Amarillo Design Bureau (ADB) for the Star Fleet Battles (SFB) tabletop sci-fi war game. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The Hydrans were created for SFB back in the day in order to add more variety to the alien species in the game, and were carried over when SFB was used as the basis for the SFC video games. They are humanoid, with their physiology having both amphibian and mammalian elements but they are also methane breathers, which means they can't exist in the same environment as humans and vice versa. They can normally be found living in the atmosphere of gas giants either on specially built structures or native planetary constructs ("floating continents," et al) that exist within those atmospheres. They have three eyes, three arms and legs (like an Edoan), three genders (male, female, "matriarchal"), and as might be expected almost everything in their culture revolves around everything being in triplicate. They are always at war with their neighbors, the Klingons and Lyrans, who both covet and desire to possess certain parts of the territory that the Hydrans claim as their own. They are an advanced spacefaring species in their own right who discovered time travel technology long before the Federation and the Klingon Empire (although they have studiously avoided its use) and their chief weapon is the hellbore, a fusion cannon type weapon of great power that was slower-firing than photon torpedoes but had the potential to cause greater damage due to the enveloping nature of its detonation upon impact. They were conquered twice in the past by joint Klingon-Lyran expeditions and were at one point subjugated under Klingon rule for about five decades, but the Klingons found them difficult to govern given that they were methane breathers and had to rule from a distance, which gave the Hydrans enough space over time to build up the necessary resources to revolt and successfully expel their Klingon overlords. With regards to the present small Hydran spacecraft designs suitably adapted for the natural environments of other species are one of their more popular exports, given their ruggedness and durability, and elements of their unique starship technologies and weaponry have also been copied and adapted for use by other interstellar powers (with the Hydrans doing so in turn, nudge-nudge).

Unlike the standard freighters of many other interstellar powers, which were usually built around two (or more) of their largest standard transport containers, comparable Hydran fleet freighters were solid complete transport vessels from bow to stern. The above image is of a typical classic Hydran fleet standard small freighter of the late TOS/TAS era.

This is semi-canon, as it comes from the SFB gaming continuity.