Gorn ✮ Master Starship Book Table of Contents

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

(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.

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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 different stages of development. concerning their common border, and a Federation-Gorn Ghdar (known to the Federation as Ghdar I) had reached the alliance was formed. The Federation-Gorn Alliance seems to point of interplanetary space flight. Geydar (known to the be the only one that is based on mutual trust and respect and Federation as Ghdar II) was in the early industrial stage of a common desire to end all military aggression. Other development, equal perhaps to the early 1900s on Earth. Alliances in the Alpha Octant (Federation-Kzinti, Romulan- Gihdahr (known to the Federation as Ghdar III) was an Iron Klingon, etc.) are based on political expediency. Age society, equal in some respects to Third Century Rome The Gorn fleet is small compared to the Romulans, but of and in others to 12th Century England. high-quality ships. Before the General War, the Gorn ships were typified by relatively few heavy weapons. This was adequate against the sublight Romulan ships, but proved marginal against warp-capable ships, such as the Klingon- type battlecruiser (R4.4), the Romulans acquired from the Klingons beginning in Y160. The Gorns refitted their ships with more and heavier plasma torpedoes beginning in Y170, greatly increasing their combat power. SampleMost Gorn ships have a Federation reporting name (often file with an added “variant identifier”), a sort of “nickname” by which it could be cited in reports and studies. These names were first assigned during a time when the Gorns were on less than friendly terms with the Federation, and the fact that the practice continued may indicate something about the