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Sample file STAR FLEET BATTLES CAPTAIN’S EDITION ✮ GORN ✮ MASTER STARSHIP BOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION GORN FAST PATROL SHIPS DESIGNER’S NOTES ........................................2 PTEROSAUR INTERCEPTORS.................... 78 PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION ........................2 PTERODACTYL FAST PATROL SHIPS ...... 79 GORN SHIPS GORN EARLY YEARS SHIPS PUBLISHED MAIN ERA SHIPS .......................3 EARLY YEARS ERA SHIPS........................... 83 GORN SHIPS IN CAPTAIN’S LOG................51 GORN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SHIPS GORN FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SHIPS............. 97 GORN FIGHTER DEVELOPMENT................56 GORN-FEDERATION BOMBERS .................59 GORN GENERAL UNITS GORN-FEDERATION FIGHTERS .................67 MAIN ERA GENERAL UNITS.......................102 GORN SALAMANDER BOMBERS................71 GENERAL UNITS IN CAPTAIN’S LOG.......124 GORN SHENYANG G-7 ..................................74 EARLY YEARS ERA GENERAL UNITS.....128 GORN FIGHTERS IN CAPTAIN’S LOG........74 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY GENERAL UNITS...........................................138 GORN GROUND FORCES COMPANY AND BATTALION TO&Es ..........77 CORRECTIONS VANGUARD TEAM ORGANIZATION ...........78 LIST OF CORRECTIONS FROM SampleORIGINAL PDF RELEASE file.............................. 50 GORN CONFEDERATION MASTER STARSHIP BOOK— Copyright © 2019 Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. Page 1 PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION STAR FLEET BATTLES (Z56.0) NOTES ON THE GORN all of these included. Commando ships were all spelled out as to their landing forces and whether or not they could, MASTER STARSHIP BOOK themselves, land on planets. Further, all information that had been published in (Z56.1) ORGANIZATION AND COMPONENTS Captain’s Logs as of the date this product was completed were also included. Ships prior to Captain’s Log #20 had all STAR FLEET BATTLES GORN MASTER STARSHIP been published, but any unit that has not been formally BOOK is a modular expansion of the SFB game system. You published from Captain’s Log #20 through Captain’s Log #53 will need the SFB Basic Set to use this material. This has been included. material will also require Advanced Missions and other This book also includes all Gorn ships which have been products (e.g., Module J, Module J2, Module K, Module M, published from the Early Years, and those equipped with Module R1, Module R4, Modules R5 through R12, Module advanced technology. X1, and Module X1R, and Modules Y1 through Y3). to use it As of its date of publication, this book is the most to the fullest extent. The Gorn Master Starship Book complete accounting of all Gorn ships, bombers, fighters, fast includes this 142-page book. patrol ships, Interceptors, and ground forces organizations in the game system. (Z56.2) DESIGN CREDITS We hope that you enjoy this book and stay in touch. SFB Designer.............................Stephen V. Cole, PE You will notice on our webpage: Gorn MSSB Designer...................Steven P. Petrick, IN www.StarFleetGames.com that you have several avenues to Proofreading ..............................Jean Sexton follow ADB. “Discus” takes you to our BBS, where most of the ADB Inspector General.................Miska game development takes place. “FC Forum” takes you to our Drill Sergeant..............................Wolf Forum, which is more of a traditional forum to meet other Interior Artist...............................Stephen V. Cole players. You will also see that you can follow our page on Gorn Art ....................................Dale McKee Facebook (great for snippets of information and lots of art) Confederation Researchers ...........Howard Bampton, John and our Twitter account. Crawford, Stewart Frazier, Ken Kazinski, Ryan J. Opel Want to find more players? Try our re-vamped Starlist: https://www.starfleetgames.com/starlist.shtml and we will (Z56.3) PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION send you a list of players near you. As we say around here, “Don’t be a stranger!” This product is published by: AMARILLO DESIGN BUREAU, INC. DEDICATION: This book is dedicated to the Military Police. In POST OFFICE BOX 8759 peacetime they enforce the law on military installations. In AMARILLO, TEXAS 79114-8759 war, they ensure the proper and steady movement of military Telephone: 806-351-1950 (Fax: 806-351-2585) convoys and provide protection to those convoys to ensure Email: [email protected] their arrival at their destinations. They secure not just those in Website: www.StarFleetGames.com our own ranks who violate the law, but also guard and Include a stamped self-addressed envelope with all rules safeguard those of the enemy who have fallen into our hands. questions, submissions, or other inquiries. Most of the They are always prepared to fight as light infantry should information which players seek (e.g., product schedules) is circumstances dictate, and are often the first responders available free on our website. when attacks and raids are made in the rear areas of our All submissions are accepted only under our standard fighting fronts. terms as published in SFB Advanced Missions. In summary, any submission becomes our property on receipt and may be modified at our sole discretion before publication. The author (Z56.5) COPYRIGHT & LICENSING of a submission receives authorship credit and compensation at our standard rates. STAR FLEET BATTLES — CAPTAIN’S EDITION — ADB, Inc., products are available to individuals in retail GORN MASTER STARSHIP BOOK and all contents thereof stores, from several direct-mail outlets, from the shopping cart are copyright © 2019 by ADB, Inc. All rights are reserved on our website, and directly from us. If your store does not under the Pan-American, Berne, and International Copyright carry our products, send us the store name and address and Conventions. we will have our wholesalers contact the manager. No material which is based on, for use with, incorporates elements of, or is derived from Federation Commander, (Z56.4) DESIGNER’S NOTES Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire, Star Fleet Missions, Star Fleet Battle Force, GURPS Prime Directive, Star Fleet Armada, or the Star Fleet Universe background This product was born out of requests by our customers can be published by any party without the advanced written to have all of the non-SSD data about Gorn ship descriptions permission of ADB, Inc. including their fighters, bombers, and fast patrol ships SFB is produced under license from Franz Joseph presented in one product to make it easier to look things up. Designs, authors of the STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL. All ships are in rule number order to make searching through the book Samplefor a specific unit as simple as any reference book. file Elements of the Star Fleet Universe are the property of The ship descriptions were formatted to include relevant Paramount Pictures Corporation and are used with their refits applicable to a given unit, and special considerations, permission. such as special sensors, whether a given ship is a carrier or fast patrol ship tender, scout or commando ship, or some or 2 Copyright © 2019 Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. — GORN CONFEDERATION MASTER STARSHIP BOOK STAR FLEET BATTLES (R6.0) CONFEDERATION OF THE GORN Federation bureaucracy. These names were dinosaur species (R6.0) THE GORN CONFEDERATION from ancient Earth history, a fact that the Gorns found thoroughly amusing. (R6.1) GORN BACKGROUND BASE HULL REPORTING NAME Gorns are reptilian-humanoids with a high degree of Battle destroyer Ceratosaurus intelligence and personal bravery. They are physically as Battleship Godzilla large as (or larger than) Kzintis, being taller than (and with Destroyer Carnosaurus perhaps twice the bulk of) Humans. Dreadnought Tyrannosaurus Rex Dreadnought variants Nano-Tyranno Early dreadnought Daspletosaurus Fast patrol ship Pterodactyl Fleet tug Brontosaurus Frigate Compsognathus Heavy battlecruiser Albertosaurus Heavy cruiser Allosaurus Heavy destroyer w/module Stegomajorus Heavy destroyer Stegosaurus Heavy war destroyer Tarbosaurus Interceptor Pterosaur Light cruiser Megalosaurus Light dreadnought Alectrosaurus Local defense cruiser Herrerasaurus Local defense destroyer Parasaurolophus Medium cruiser Epanterias UNIQUE CLASS REPORTING NAME Advanced destroyer Carnosaurextremis Advanced frigate Compsogextremis Cruiser-dreadnought Acrocanthosaurus Destroyer-battlecruiser Utahraptor Destroyer-cruiser Troodon Double-wing destroyer Carnosauripex Fast battlecruiser Velociraptor Fleet tug with battle pod Triceratops Heavy destroyer dreadnought Kentrosaurus Light PF tender Sinosauropteryx Light raiding dreadnought Alectoraptorus The Gorn Confederation consists of three sentient Light X-dreadnought Alectoextremis species (all developed on separate planets but are so nearly Medium dreadnought Alectomajorus identical they must have come from common stock) joined Medium mauler Epantevenator into a single political unit. Their area of space includes Plasma-dreadnought Spinosaurus relatively few habitable planets and, apparently, no native Police flagship Maiasaura sentient species beyond themselves. Workboat Rhamphorhyncus The Gorns first met the Federation in war in Y157, but this was quickly settled when it became apparent that it had A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GORNS been a misunderstanding. During the peace talks, the At the time that the three Gorn home worlds came into Federation discovered that the Gorns had experienced a contact (sometime around Y10-Y20, the date is unclear), the continuing series of armed disagreements with the Romulans three planets had reached