ZENTRON

The Zentron are a race of geneticly egineered soldiers, built by a long dead race, formerly living on Tirol. The Zentron themselves are inteligent, strong, and very very large (50 feet tall, average). On the down side, they were designed with a fail safe, should they ever turn against their masters: they can not build new, nor effectively repair their technology. While they can patch things up, they lack the ability to reproduce materials and so on... so when they loose a ship, they have lost it for good. Furthermore, they can not physicaly reproduce (rather, they have no 'basic instinct', and thus have no incling of sex, or such maters). This is an obvious problem, but not as noticable, as their femail cloned counterparts (the Maltrai), are not only in command of gender-segrigated space fleets, but equaly unaware of this basic physical drive.

The Zentradi are an interesting mix of very advanced, and primative technology. They have Space-Folding drives on all of their capitol ships, extremely high energy band shields, and massive 'main guns' (on massive ships: average is 5 miles long and are as large as 20) capable of desimating planets in a few barages. On the opposite side, they have only chemical drives for non FTL maneuvers, no FTL units capable of 'traveling' (Folding simply places a ship at its destination at some eratic point in the near future), their standard weapons are sub-par with Phaser/Disruptor/Torpedoes (Really just high powered lasers), and, while they have huge fleets laying around, their communication systems are non-FTL based (i.e. they usualy have to send ships as couriers instead of using sub-space). They have been engaged twice in the UCIP. First, the Romulan fleet stumbled into Tirol's system, and took over the planet with little confrontation (though their ships were there, they were disorganized for some reason the Romulans could not determine). Following that, the Romulans sent a small encursion unit ahead, and were wiped out by the next, more alert Zentron unit they encountered. The KDF, while attempting to encircle the RSR during the last war, ran head long into a border fleet, and was handed its arse on a platter. Since, neither the Romulans nor the Klingons have dared breech the Zentrons space.