3125 Scale Gorn X-Ship Advanced Battle Destroyer

The Gorns are six-to-seven-foot-tall, 350-pound, cold-blooded, egg-laying, reptilian humanoids bearing a superficial resemblance to a T-Rex or Raptor. Despite the fearsome visage, they are actually quite civilized people who run one of the few democracies in the galaxy. The Federation and Gorns met in a border incident in which two hot-headed captains shot first and faced embarrassing questions later. (A Federation corporation built an unauthorized colony outside of Federation territory. The Gorns saw a few Vulcans and thought the colonists were Romulans (with which they had fought wars for over a century). Diplomats smoothed everything over and the Gorns became the most stable ally of the Federation. The Gorn legislature’s reluctance to spend money or join the Federation’s war limited this alliance during some periods. (Note: The dinosaur-based names are Federation “reporting names” because few in the Federation could pronounce the Gorn names for them. Shown books on paleontology, the Gorns were reportedly honored and amused by the naming convention.)

Rather than convert the inadequate destroyer to X-tech, the Gorns chose the larger battle destroyer design for conversion. While most “war destroyers” could not be converted to X-technology due to their weak internal structure, the battle destroyer was an exception because it was based on the conventional destroyer. Wartime construction simply added a rear bubble to the destroyer design. Many X-battle destroyers were conversions of the X-destroyers foisted on the Gorn Navy by their parsimonious legislature. The Federation reporting name for the ships was Ceratosaurus-X. Known names include Shockforce, Starforce, Strikeforce, Fireforce, Excessive Force, and Battleforce.

This ship is available in a variety of materials. Ships are unpainted, use standard flight stands available from many sources, and, while designed for gaming, make fine display pieces.