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More than a century ago, the Gorn Confederacy was engulfed by the expanding Romulan Star Empire.  It was assumed until the Hegemony appeared that the Romulans had wiped all other Gorn people from existence.

With the warming of relationships with the Romulan Star Empire since their assistance in battling the Dominion in 2407, they have allowed the Gorn Confederacy renewed access to the former Romulan-Federation Neutral Zone.

The Gorn Confederacy is a GOLD Fleet ally.  Most relations with either the Confederacy or Hegemony have been dealt with by the KRIMA Expeditionary Force Area of Operations.  There has been continual development of the Gorn since the re-establishment of GOLD Fleet in 1999/2411 and the subsequent opening of KRIMA.

The Gorn race has always been staunch allies of the Federation, and hated enemies of the Romulans.  Since the first time humans and Gorn met to discuss their differences peacefully, the Federation has had a powerful ally.  The Gorn have always hated the Romulans however, and the two races have been at war since they first discovered the existence of the other.  It should be noted that the Romulans seem to hate the Gorn just as much.  The recent Cease Fire Agreement, which is not a peace treaty or even a non-aggressions pact, is the first instance of any form of peaceful negotiation of any sort between the two races.

Supporters of the Federation during both the First and Second General Wars, the Gorn had their borders with the Federation overrun by the Romulans approximately 100 years after the Second General War.  This provided the Romulans with the opportunity to completely encircle the Gorn Confederacy, which they proceeded to accomplish.  The Romulan Empire devoted significant resources to the total obliteration of the entire Gorn race.  This would have been occurring during the long period in which the Federation heard nothing from the Romulan Empire, and no Romulan ships were seen in the Quadrant.  Unfortunately for the Romulans, their venture into genocide did not succeed.  Although the Gorn Confederacy shrank in size over the course of the most brutal and bloody war the two races have engaged in, the Gorn survived by expanding to other worlds in the Star Systems that were left to them.

With the war at a stand still, and the death toll rising, the Romulan Empire finally turned its attention to other areas.  Eventually the Gorn managed to recapture some star systems, and more recently with the Borg and Dominion situation, they have found the Romulans vulnerable.  Apparently the Romulans arrived at the same conclusion.  Shortly after their initial agreement to join the Federation in the war against the Dominion, the Romulans opened negotiations with the Gorn to end hostilities between their respective peoples.  Although the negotiations took over four years, and the implementation of the agreement took even longer, the two races finally agreed on the following: the Romulans would give back to the Gorn specific planets (not developed) that would restore their border with both the Federation and the rest of the Beta Quadrant (i.e. the Romulans would no longer encircle the Gorn.)  The Gorn would give up certain planets (terra formed already) to the Romulans to compensate for the planets that the Romulans were giving up, a Neutral Zone would be established between the two races respective spaces, and all hostilities would cease (for the moment).

Now that the Neutral Zone has been established and the Gorn have not only taken possession of their new worlds but also terraformed and fortified them, the Gorn race has reappeared in force in the Beta Quadrant.  Quickly reaffirming their association with the Federation, the Gorn rapidly moved to also re-establish their previous ties with other races and solidify the relationships they had made during their exile by the Romulans.  Although the true return of the race to the Beta Quadrant only occurred in 2409, with the startlingly swift recovery the species has made, it almost seems that they were never gone.  In recent months they have also finally begun to deploy ships in concert with Federation forces, signifying their full support of Starfleet and thus the United Federation of Planets.

The Gorn Confederacy covers multiple Star Systems.  Originally positioned just above the Romulan Empire, and bordering both the Federation and the Empire, the Gorn Confederacy lost direct contact with it's ally, the Federation, some 100 years after the Second General War.  Its borders with the United Federation of Planets taken over by the Romulan Empire, trade and communication were maintained through third parties.  A recent cease fire agreement with the Romulan Empire has now seen the restoration of the Gorn/Federation border, and conveniently adds a new buffering Neutral Zone between Starfleet and the Romulans.  This places the star systems that make up the Gorn Confederacy in their previous location just above the Romulan Empire, and bordering the United Federation of Planets.  The Gorn Star Cluster is broken into three sectors, each with roughly the same number of star systems contained within. Each sector is then subdivided into three rings (inner, outer, and center), each ring is broken up into three zones, each zone into sections (which are groupings of specific planets that either share a close proximity in space or similar political, military, or economic purpose), and then finally into specific planets and/or moons themselves.  Each of the three sectors of the Gorn Star Cluster has a single capital planet which is considered the center of government for the particular sector that the planet resides within.  Every three years the entire Gorn Confederacy is run from one of these three sector Capital Planets, and during its tenure as the bastion of the Gorn Government, that planet is titled the Capital of the Gorn Confederacy.  The designations of these planets, in Federation Standard, are: Sal'Yskoz, Vraneen Yskoz, and Thizarus Yskoz.  The Gorn race is very advanced in the technology of terra forming, and commonly over half of the planets in most of the Star Systems that they occupy are inhabited.  Usually every moon of each planet is also settled. Despite the smaller size of the Gorn Star Cluster, a higher percentage of inhabited planets per Star System has allowed them to maintain a higher population per Star System than the Federation while actually having fewer people per planet.  The types of planets themselves, as well as the types of Star Systems, vary as widely in the Gorn Confederacy as they do in either the Federation or Romulan/Klingon Empires.  Additionally, there are no other species present in any of the Star Systems that are inhabited by the Gorn race.

The United Federation of Planets and the Gorn Confederacy are most similar in their economic situations.  There is no form of currency in the Gorn Star Cluster, every citizen is provided for equally.  Foreign trade is performed with a variety of currencies and precious gems/metals, including Latinum, that are mined and/or created within the Confederacy itself.  The Gorn race is completely capable of sustaining itself with the natural and Gorn-made resources that exist within the Confederacy.  However trade is maintained with a variety of imports/exports in order to solidify relations with the other species that exist within the quadrant.  Ferengi, Breen, Klingons, Lyrans, Humans, Tholians, Nausicaans, and Bajorans comprise the bulk of their trading partners, but there are a host of other races that they trade with on an infrequent basis.  Until the recent cease fire with the Romulan Empire, all transactions were performed via third party shipping and subspace business dealings.  However the products being traded were severely limited by the Romulan Empire, which searched every ship entering Gorn space.  The Romulans and Gorn have never opened trade negotiations between their two peoples in their entire history as neighbors, and this situation will not change in the foreseeable future.  Of the various raw materials and finished products exported out of Gorn Space, the service most in demand from the Gorn is their expertise in terra forming.  Being completely surrounded on all sides for a few hundred years by their blood enemies the Romulans, and thereby enclosed into a limited slice of space, the Gorn race rapidly developed the technology to expand settlements to the other worlds within the Star Systems that they already populated.  Although aided by the robustness of their own species, which allowed them to survive in harsher climates and required less terra forming, their continued advancements in this field has left the Gorn as the most technologically advanced species in either the Alpha or Beta quadrants, with regards to this process. Prior to the cease fire with the Romulan Empire, the Gorn were limited to exporting information on the topic of terra forming. With their active return to the Alpha Quadrant, now that they can freely move throughout the area, the Gorn have begun offering their highly advanced teams and equipment for terra forming contracts.  Technologically speaking, the Gorns are on an equivalent to slightly more advanced level than the Federation. Centuries of war with the Romulans has caused the development of weapons (personal and otherwise), armor (personal and otherwise),ship design, power, defensive capabilities, and propulsion to be slightly ahead of the Federation in certain areas.  On a larger scale however, they are just short of being the military equivalent of their Federation allies. Medical technology is considerably behind the capabilities of the Federation, most likely due to the regenerative abilities of the species, but Genetic Engineering is noticeably more advanced within the Gorn Star Cluster.  This is most likely the direct result of the goal of Gorn Medicine being to help the body heal itself naturally, as opposed to surgical procedures and drugs. With the previously noted exception of Terra forming, the level of technology in all other areas is about 30 years behind the Federation.  

* The Gorn Confederacy pages were developed communally by the crew of the USS LEVIATHAN and compiled by Gary Dickison.

* Edited by Jeffrey Jenkins.