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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knightemplar" data-source="post: 5311105" data-attributes="member: 56260">Walking into the briefing room, there is plenty of seats around the table. Admiral Kiel and Admiral Sa'avik are currently discussing things quietly between themselves in the corner of the room. Lt. D'vassa's hands are moving quite quickly over a communications console in the room.  As Lt. Martinez is the last senior officer to walk into the briefing room, the small discussions between the officers at the briefing table cease. Admiral Sa'avik walks over to the head of the table and nods towards Lt. D'vassa. "Since we are all here now, let us begin.", states Admiral Sa'avik as the display board behind her lights up and shows a picture of a Gorn. "In the last hundred and three years since we have first encountered the Gorn with the attack on Cestus III in 2297, we have not learned that much about this race. The following film is a visual archive from the records of the USS Enterprise and their encounter with the Gorn." The viewscreen lights up and a picture of Captain James Kirk is displayed speaking into what appears to be a log communicator.  "This is Captain James Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. Whoever finds this, please get it to Starfleet Command. I'm engaged in personal combat with a creature apparently called a Gorn. He's immensely strong. Already, he has withstood attacks from me that would have killed a Human being. Fortunately, though strong, he is not agile. The agility and I hope the cleverness, is mine." The board then switches to the Gorn, who seems to be hearing this log entry through his recorder. The Gorn is a large reptilian humanoid that stands close to eight feet tall.    <img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd124/knightemplar/starfleet/gorn_people.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />  The video keeps playing through the confrontation with the Gorn, showing Captain Kirk inventive enough to make a primitive version of gunpowder and a cannon loaded with diamonds. Captain Kirk even though he wins the trial combat, he refuses to dispatch the Gorn captain in a moment of compassion and mercy. Admiral Sa'avik moves back in front of the viewscreen, "One of things learned, was that the Federation built the Cestus III colony in an area claimed by the Gorn as one of their territories. We set up a diplomatic presence on the planet of Clanhaven for the next couple of decades in which diplomats for the Federation and the Gorn tried to work out their differences." "The Gorn have a very complex ideal of honor, called Gessegrissgir, much more complicated than ever found in the Klingons and the Romulans. After the last hundred years, we still do not understand what truly makes up this code of honor. But this ideal is counter balanced by the idea of Ussegssirr, which is an expansionistic attitude that has been nicknamed 'Manifest Destiny' by some of the human diplomats".  "The actual government of the Gorn is ruled by an Imperator, born to the racial species of the Gorn called the Blackscales, which are considered to be a royal bloodline. Beneath the Imperator are two Autarchs, one chosen from the homeworld of S'sgaron and the other from the strongest of their outer colony worlds. Beneath the Autarachs, is a selection of Gorn representatives from each of their worlds in a council."</blockquote>

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