Lore:Hydral

The Hydrals are the player race in The Last Federation. The protagonist is the last surviving Hydral.

Backstory

The Hydrals were one of the oldest races in the solar system, and the first to attain spacefaring capability. They then used their technological advantage to prevent the other eight races from developing spacefaring technology, destroying any manned space launches from their planets. They justified these actions by depicting each of the other races as too dangerous or unfit to be permitted interplanetary agency. The protagonist found this objectionable, and stole the knowledge of spaceflight to give to the other races, along with a ship.

The Evucks secretly used probes with advanced technology to dry out the Hydral homeworld, a water planet. The Hydral population plummeted from 40 billion to just a few thousand as a result, and the survivors assembled in space for a retaliatory attack. Shortly thereafter, however, a moon launched by the Acutians struck the planet, destroying it and killing all the Hydrals. Only the protagonist survived, crash-landing on a planet belonging to one of the eight races (which one is determined by the player at the start of the game).

Taken prisoner, the Hydral carefully concealed his strength until his captors achieved spaceflight. Once that was done, he escaped, stole the prototype flagship, and set about forming the Federation.