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===Early Hydra and the First Empire===

[[File:HydraFOB.png|middle|middle|thumb|Hydra Hanger (Fortress II), constructed by macro26 and trooper306 (c. 2015)]][[File:Hydra_Main_Operating_Base_Pre_2015.png|left|middle|thumb|Hydra Island, Pre-Colonization (c. 2015)]]The founding members of the first Hydra crew joined PirateCraft in middle to late-2015. These included names such as dpex81, macro26, trooper306, Spock1101,

and RebornSparta. At this time, the crew tag ‘Hydra’ was claimed by a different group of inactive players. For this reason, the founding members took the name ‘Reich’ under the crew description ‘The Eternal Empire of Hydra’.  

The first Hydra base was constructed on the east of the map at x:4550, z:-2300. The base consisted of an open-air stone castle with 10-20 block high walls and two wet docks. At the time, this was near the world border, which was later expanded.

Initially a rather peaceful crew, the members of Hydra were quickly turned sour due to relentless attacks from a group of players led by dagersh (also known as the cup pisser). Hydra thrived here only briefly, losing most of their resources to dagersh. After vain attempts to report this player for harassment, Hydra had abandoned its claims to the castle by September 2015, never completing it. This would be known as Fortress I.

As a result of this discouragement, Hydra would break into two groups to establish firmer positions on the PirateCraft server. The main group, consisting of macro26, trooper306, and Spock1101, moved north to the nearest desert at x:4600, z:-2800 and constructed the infamous pair of Hangers. The main Hanger sported 7 block thick walls and two enclosed wet docks, and served as Hydra’s main base of operations. Together these would be known as Fortress II. Shortly after their construction, early Hydra would be joined by Lamborewski, Sir_Ninja_Knight, and ObamasRightNut. All three recruits would go on to be banned in November 2015.[[File:Old hangers.PNG|right|middle|thumb|Hydra Hangers (Fortress II), complete construction: last appearance in Hydra recruitment video (c. 2016)]]Fortress II served early Hydra in defense against several months of onslaught from dagersh and his conspirators. In one of Hydra’s most famous achievements, dagersh would go on to be killed in a siege on November 2nd, 2015. His armor and sword, ‘his mighty donger’, are buried to this day deep below the Statue of

Tyranny on Hydra island.

In response to dagersh’s attacks back in September 2015, dpex81 split off from the other members and constructed another bunker on a lightly populated island far away from Hydra’s birthplace, near x:3150, z:-4325. This bunker would be known as Fortress III, and the new Hydra island would later become home to the infamous Hydra Box, Fortress IV.

Nearing the end of this first season of success, the early Eternal Empire of Hydra abandoned Fortress II and moved all of its resources into a vault deep within Fortress III, known commonly as the Resurrection vault. Fortress II would later be unclaimed and detonated in a synchronized explosion.

===The Birth of Sleeper Agents and the Second Empire===

Hydra’s unrelenting strength is the result of its members being friends offline first and online second. At the height of their power in early 2018, this rule would be violated in the befriending of several players in the server community including Cysteen, Nahadoth, Smokeyriver and notably The_Network, who met with Hydra in person in Chicago during the summer of 2018. In Hydra’s only moment of weakness, some anticipated drama would occur between the aforementioned players resulting in Nahadoth and Mystictitan glitching into the Hydra box. This was done using knowledge illegally gained by downloading a schematic into singleplayer. After a series of rapid and unexpected events, and despite his best efforts to administer punishment, The_Network would go on to be banned from PirateCraft under questionable circumstances as a scapegoat for others’ crimes. Once again disgusted at the server’s community, Hydra would briefly abandon their position and vow to return again in full power never yet seen in PirateCraft history.

===The Third Empire, the One After the Second===

In February 2020, the core members of Hydra, not including any current sleeper agents, held a meeting to discuss Hydra’s official resurfacing on PirateCraft. Several plans were drafted for both raiding and construction projects, to occur over the next several months. Mild activity returned under the continued effort to perpetuate the illusion of Hydra’s demise to the rest of the community. In May 2020, Hydra was approached by its newest sleeper agent, TulipsAndDeath, who infiltrated and successfully built trust in the crew Rome over the remainder of 2020. In December 2020, Hydra executed its largest raid in history, with 12 agents involved in clearing out the crew from over half a million items.