For the native Milky Way counterpart, see Gornar Hegemony.

In the Kelvin timeline, the Gorn Armada was an extragalactic nation-state, an aggressively expansionist empire of the Gorn in the 23rd century. (TOS video game: Star Trek)

History and culture[]

Like the Gorn of the prime universe^[1], these Gorn consisted of different, related species or castes. Each type of Gorn performed a particular role in the Armada.

Over eons^[2], fleets of Gorn ships, consisting of Gorn motherships and smaller escorts, would travel to every star system and planet within reach to exterminate native species when they resisted, and subjugate them as slaves when they didn't. When motherships operated in pairs, one would pummel a planet with concussive energy blasts that subjected the targeted hemisphere to an infernal conflagration. Next, the Gorn deployed shock troops.

Shockwaves emanated from conquered star systems, displaying on an interstellar level the expansion of the Gorn Armada.

Conquered species included the Lymax. Unable to cross intergalactic space, the Armada was confined to its galaxy.

In the year 2259, the Vulcan Helios Device opened a rift between the Helios-1 space station in the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Gorn Planet in the Armada's galaxy. The Commander's mothership passed through and emerged at New Vulcan, in the Beta Quadrant.^[3] The Gorn Commander's forces raided New Vulcan Colony and stole the Helios Device.

The Federation starship USS Enterprise rescued Vulcans from Helios-1 and defended New Vulcan before being boarded by the Commander's forces. Commander Spock learned about the Armada's nature by mind-melding with a Gorn lieutenant.

Enterprise pursued the Commander's mothership and traversed the Rip on stardate 22259.33. A landing party tried to recover the Helios Device from the Gorn Planet, which Spock had seen in the mind meld. The Rip would close within six hours. Captain, James T. Kirk and Spock boarded the mothership, rescued the abducted Vulcan scientist T'Mar, and destroyed the Helios device. The Gorn command was killed in the process, and his mothership exploded. The Enterprise escaped the Armada galaxy before the Rip closed for good. (TOS video game: Star Trek)

The Beta Quadrant was also home to a Gorn culture native to the Milky Way galaxy, and organised in the Gornar Hegemony. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 2")

Not all extragalactic Gorn left. In 2260, a peaceful clan of Gorn Armada rebels who had hitchhiked on the Commander's mothership, settled on the Federation jungle moon Parthenon 559. Henderson, local representative of a mining company, attacked the Gorn campsite, killing nearly half their number. The Gorn rebels countered with a massacre of the mining settlement. The Enterprise rushed to the planet. Commander Spock estimated that Starfleet would be unable to withstand a full-scale invasion by the Armada. Investigating Parthenon 559, Spock and his captain figured out the chain of events and made peace with the Gorn rebels. The planet was declared off-limits for now, and granted protectorate status within the Federation. Spock concluded that the mining company's interest in the planet would have to be answered with coexistence to avoid further bloodshed. (TOS - Star Trek, Volume 6 comic: "IDW Star Trek, Issue 24")

Territory[]

The Gorn Armada was confined to its own galaxy, which existed at an unknown distance from the Milky Way Galaxy. This galaxy was suffused with red light, and appeared red when perceived from outside.

Planets and systems[]

• Gorn Planet
• Parthenon 559 (Gorn rebels)

Armada races and cultures[]

• Gorn: non-humanoid reptilian species
  • brute: limited intelligence, armored and physically strong
  • champion: 2.4 meters tall, burly mutant
  • commander: 3m tall, military leader
  • guardian: purple-skinned guards
  • henchman: second-in-command, personal camouflage
  • initiate: 1.8m long, quadrupedal, unarmored front-line soldiers
  • lieutenant: armored squad leaders for initiates
  • rusher: unintelligent, unarmored shock troops
  • scout: personal camouflage, unassisted wall-climbing, unarmored
  • sentinel: 2.7m tall, commanders' subordinates
  • warrior: genetically-enhanced initiates with basic armo
• Lymax: non-humanoid subject species

Ships and technology[]

• arc drivers: carried by sentinels and warriors
• energy axe: carried by guardians
• mothership
• shuttle
• pillager: carried by henchmen and warriors
• ravager: automatic rifle, carried by initiates

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