The Gorn Alliance

The Gorn are cold blooded, reptilian humanoids who inhabit a region of space to the coreward end of the Federation space, sharing a short border with the Cardassian Union and a larger one with the Romulan Star Empire. The Federation has almost totally engulfed any room for expansion that existed around the Gorn Alliance and relations have been somewhat fraught since their initial, bloody meeting at Cestus III in 2267. The Gorn Alliance has been largely reclusive, if somewhat prone to violent retaliation to the slightest infraction against them. Consequently the Federation has largely left the Alliance be.

The vast majority of the information on these pages(especially the language...)  has been developed by myself during play of the Triangle and Mirror campaigns and should in no way be taken as canon (except in those contexts of course ...). Every attempt has been undertaken to keep this within the canon (which given that there is SFA on the Gorn Alliance isn't hard), but influencing factors have been, in descending order of influence

• "Demand of Honor" - A Star Trek : The Roleplaying Game Scenario written by J. Andrew Keith, from which the Gorn concepts of "Gessegrissgir"("Warriors' Code of Conduct") and "Ussegssirr" ("Manifest Destiny") are taken, as well as some historical elements, the basis for naming conventions and Gorn politics, adapted for a three Autarch system.
• "The Sins of Commission" by Jan Michael Friedman - A Star Trek : The Next Generation Novel which is a) rather good, and b) the only one with any amount of Gorn in it. Well worth a read - That's how MY Gorn think!
• "Star Fleet Battles" A Tactical Combat Game by Star Fleet Games set in an interpretation of the Original series Star Trek Universe as outlined in the Franz Joseph "Star Trek Technical Manual". Their ships look like those elegant beasties rather than the FASA Bricks of the RPG. Also, their three (almost equal) home worlds concept appealed. Their Gorn demeanour was almost "British" and I have reflected that in the rank system I adopted.
• "The Worlds of the Federation" By Shane Johnson. Mostly I disagree with what was written in there, but I did like the logo, I've doctored the Gorn figure from their, and Gornar is the World upon which the Gorn evolved, but not the current First World, this being FASA's S'sgaron, the first established colony that was considerably better resourced than the world of their birth. Sss'ics is entirely my invention ... (A planet known for its political conservatism, lax moral standards and intellectually challenged golden scaled females ...)

If we should ever get anything concrete from the current series (DS9 and Voyager) then I shall adjust reality to fit, but I shan't hold my breath (though the mentions of the Federation Colony on Cestus III in DS9 had me salivating a little ...)

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