Thraddash
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The Thraddash are a fictional race of beings featured in the sci-fi Star Control computer game series.
In general the Thraddash are an aggressive lot, respecting brute force over most things, smoking their cigars and making much more noise about themselves than they would be wise to. Seemingly ready to do battle (and promptly get blasted to bits) with the slightest provocation, combat and aggression practically defines the race.
The Thraddash history is a series of sequentially numbered cultures. Each culture is eventually overthrown in a violent manner by a new one, that considers itself somehow better than the one that came before. As you meet them in Star Control 2, they are going at Culture 19. It has been suggested that the Thraddash are actually extremely capable creatures, and that they would have the potential to be extremely advanced if they could kick the nasty habit of bombing themselves back to stone age as every culture ends in a revolution, every time setting them back some five hundred years (or as in the case of Culture fifteen, "Two, maybe three hundred years, tops.")
The puny Thraddash Torch is a relatively weak, yet interesting ship. The main guns fire low-damage projectiles with a very long range, and the secondary weapon in the form of the ship's afterburner (accidentally stumbled onto by the Thraddash researchers in a freak accident involving fuelled engines and a discarded live cigar stub) allows Thraddash to travel faster than any other ship in the game. The afterburner also leaves behind a "vapour trail" of superheated gases that will damage enemy ships on contact.