Hyades is a free space strategy game. There are no battle boards or special battle engines; all battles take place in the same 3D space that ships travel through from star to star. It features realistic game mechanics and multiplayer oriented play.
Hyades is a strategy game set in a 3D universe with realistic physics. Hyades is a multiplayer oriented 4X space strategy like "MOO2", "Stars!" and "Space Empires IV". The alpha version is planned for release in
The seven daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward.
A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
The Hyades (ÆΥάδες also known as Melotte 25 or Collinder 50 or Caldwell 41) is an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus. Its brightest stars form a "V" shape along with the red giant Aldebaran, the brightest star in the field of view, which is not part of the cluster. The Hyades, at 151 light years from Earth, form the nearest star cluster (disregarding the Ursa Major Stream).
In Greek mythology, the Hyades (Eng. /ʼhaɪədiz}}/ Gk. Ὑάδες), meaning "the rainy ones" are a sisterhood of nymphs that bring rain. They do not appear in Roman mythology,"Taurus’ face gleams with seven rays of fire, which Greek sailors call Hyades from their rain-word." (Ovid, Fasti, v.164.
