Gorn Royal Navy

The official armed forces of the Gorn Confederacy, the Gorn Royal Navy has served the Gorn Crown since the formation of the unified Gorn state and native interstellar flight in the early 22nd Century. Officially neutral during the Gorn Civil War, in reality Royal Navy personnel fought on both sides, each according to their personal beliefs, although the overall status of the Navy remained unblemished and unpoliticised.

Until the mid 2120s, the Royal Navy had been occupied only with fighting internal threats; mainly piracy. First contact with the Paravians in 2123 changed this. A long bitter war ensued, which due in part to the primitive drive systems employed by both powers, lasted nearly 20 years. The nascent Gorn Confederacy emerged utterly victorious from this war, driving the Paravians not only into defeat but into extinction as a species.

From this early conflict right through to their first contact with the Romulan Star Empire in 2190, the Royal Navy had used the same combination of megawatt-range Lasers as Primary Weapons, backed up initially with fusion-tipped Missiles and later (from the 2180s), Particle Accelerator Cannons as Secondary Weapons. The backbone of Gorn tactics throughout the 22nd Century were their Heavy Cruisers, and the Royal Navy fought the forces of the Romulan Star Navy to a stand still in 2190 and 2230 with the power of their Cruisers alone. Both sides realised that superior weaponry would be required to force a breakthrough, and quite separate to one another, both Romulan and Gorn scientists focused on Plasma weaponry as the way forward, acknowledging that this was unlikely however to yield short term results.

By the 3rd Gorn-Romulan War in 2248, the Royal Navy had brought in the Anaconda Class Destroyer for border defence and picket duty, and the Tyrannus Class Battleship, amongst the heaviest warships of her era, as a Capital Ship to break the Romulan lines. The war however, did not go as planned for the Royal Navy, and the Gorn Confederacy lost several important, resource rich systems. The loss led to a rethink of fleet compositions and an increased investment in plasma research, yielding the deployment of the new Type G Plasma Torpedo in 2258. This new powerful weapon system quickly replaced the obsolescent Particle Accelerator Cannon on larger Gorn designs. On smaller designs, power consumption problems prevent it's deployment, and more exotic, Tractor Beam-based weaponry such as the Gravimetric Harmonic Resonance Cannon was required to finally replace the older weapon on these warships.

The Royal Navy was very much a trailblazing organisation in the 2270s and 2280s, introducing the Reptillon Class and Beowulf Class, which would later be recognised as the progenitors of the Torpedo Cruiser and Command Cruiser respectively. The Grendel Class Battleship pushed the envelop of starship design when she was introduced in 2282, although teething troubles marred her entry into service. Cooperation with Starfleet through the Federation-Gorn Alliance led to a number of useful breakthroughs for both powers in the areas of shields, armour and weaponry, including the Quantum Carrier-Wave Beam. The Royal Navy was also one of the few organisations to employ Pseudo-Fighters, even fielding a prototype Pseudo-Fighter Tender, although the majority of their Viper Class Pseudo-Fighters were deployed in a defensive role along the volatile Romulan border.

Royal Navy strategy as of 2292 revolves around Heavy Cruiser Squadrons, supported by heavy Assault Fleets to crack difficult targets, with Battlecruiser Squadrons to strike rapidly at vulnerable targets, much like their Starfleet counterparts.

## Current Gorn Royal Navy Warship Classes (2292, descending class order)

### Capital Ships

King Grendel Class Battleship

Queen Derenesktta Class Pseudo-Fighter Tender

Grendel Class Dreadnought

Basilisk Class Battlecruiser

### Heavy Screen Ships

Beowulf Class Command Cruiser

Reptillon Class Torpedo Cruiser

Saurus Class Scout Cruiser

Euromastyx Class Heavy Cruiser

### Light Screen Ships

Rattlesnake Class Light Cruiser

Anaconda Class Destroyer

King Snake-S Class Scout Frigate

King Snake Class Frigate

### Support Ships

Asp Class Troop Transport

Gecko Class Fleet Repair Tender

Cobra Class Cargo Freighter

Adder Class Mining Freighter

Python Class Colony Ship

Lizard Class Construction Tender

### Shuttlecraft and Fightercraft

Viper Class Pseudo-Fighter

Jaragua Work Bee

## Notable GRN Vessels (2292)

GNS King Grendel

GNS Queen Derenesktta

## Notable GRN Vessels (Former)

GNS Grendel - Destroyed 2286

GNS Gress'sril - Destroyed 2282

## See also

Starfleet

Klingon Defence Force

Romulan Star Navy