Gornar Hegemony

For the primary universe counterpart, see Gorn Hegemony.

Emblem of the Hegemony.

In the Kelvin timeline, the Gornar Hegemony was an interstellar nation-state, the empire of the Gorn in the 23rd century. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 3")

History and culture

The Gornar was a hereditary kingdom led by the Hegemon. Its capital was Gornar in the Tau Lacertae system, homeworld of the Gorn species. A domesticated species, the trum War, I, were kept in the royal kennels. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 2")

In 2259, the Federation planet New Vulcan was invaded by the Gorn Armada, an extragalactic nation unrelated to the Gornar Hegemony. (TOS video game: Star Trek)

In that year, Federation Doctor Leonard McCoy helped deliver Gorn octuplets. (TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek Into Darkness)

In the 2260s decade, the hegemon was an elder statesman. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 2")

In 2260, the Gornar Hegemony appeared on political maps of the Beta Quadrant reviewed by Yuki Sulu and another operative of Section 31 on Earth. (TOS - After Darkness comic: "Part 3")

Soon after, a peaceful clan of Gorn Armada rebels settled on the Federation world Parthenon 559, which became a protectorate. (TOS - Star Trek, Volume 6 comic: "IDW Star Trek, Issue 24")

A Gorn pirate.

In 2262, the struggling Neutral Zone colony Denna requested help from the Independents against Gorn raiders. An Independent operating from Home Base investigated the latest attack on Denna in the Kepler-018 system. The Gorn marauder, leader of the pirates, taunted the Home Base mercenary, and a battle ensued between the Gorn's hostile interceptor and the mercenaries. (ST video game: Fleet Command mission: "Gone Too Far")

Emblem

The emblem worn as patch by the Gorn marauder in 2262 resembled the emblem of the Gorn Hegemony in the primary universe from the 2280s decade. (ST video game: Fleet Command mission: "Starfleet Academy: Strategic Command")

Spectrum War

By the year 2262, the hegemon's son Glocon had resented his father for holding on to the title for 1.000 cycles.

Soon after, an extradimensional energy ring, representing rage on the emotional spectrum, arrived at Gornar and slipped onto Glocon's claw, infusing him with the ring's power and his outfit transformed into red armor, emblazoned with the sigil of the Red Lantern Corps. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 2")

After killing his father, Hegemon Glocon declared destiny smiled on him and that soon the entire Milky Way Galaxy would kneel before him.

The new hegemon was not as powerful as Atrocitus, leader of the Red Lantern Corps, who had followed the ring's signature and confronted Glocon. Garron intervened before Atrocitus could kill Glocon, and introduced himself as the humble advisor of the new hegemon. Glocon and Atrocitus entered a partnership.

At the border between the Alpha and Delta Quadrants, Glocon destroyed the unsuspecting Federation Constitution-class flagship USS Constellation. Glocon intended it to be a declaration of war against the Federation, commencing the Spectrum War. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 3")

The Hegemon declares war.

His first official act defined by violence, the new hegemon was accompanied by Atrocitus to Starbase Stavitskaya in the Gamma 400 system. The Red Lantern pair brought no additional Gornar Hegemony support with them. While they attacked the Federation starbase, General Chang, Emperor of the Klingon Empire and his Sinestro Corps associate Sinestro arrived with a fleet of Klingon bird-of-prey ships. The Klingon forces were powered by fear-based energy rings. Their battle was soon joined by Hal Jordan's ring-bearers and the Constitution-class USS Enterprise. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 4")

Similarly, the Battle of Starbase 12 was complicated by the arrival of Decius, Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire, his master Larfleeze, and their fleet of Romulan bird-of-prey ships. Unlike the fear-powered Klingon forces, these were powered by avarice and glowed orange.

With the arrival of Green Lantern Corps reinforcements, the four-way battle's stalemate was turned in favor of the Federation. Jordan's ring-bearers and the Enterprise departed the battle to battle Nekron at a resurrected Vulcan, leaving the hegemon and other leaders behind at Starbase 12-Savitskaya. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 5")

When Starfleet Commander Spock began manifesting the Life Entity by controlling the emotional spectrum within him, the leaders' rings left their chosen ones and spirited light-years away to Spock. Left unprotected in space, Glocon quickly succumbed to the vacuum.

Starfleet found the remains of the dead ring-bearers. With the leadership of three empires suddenly replaced in coup d'états and then killed hours or days later, the Federation had to remain vigilant in the politically destabilised galaxy. (TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 6")

Glocon was only the eldest of the old hegemon's brood. Garron had remained on Gornar, too.

Territory

Map of the Hegemony (grey) in 2260.

The Gornar Hegemony was located in the galaxy's Beta Quadrant, wedged between the territories of the Federation, the Klingon Empire and the Metron Consortium. Cestus was a Federation system on the border to Gorn space. (TOS - After Darkness comic: "Part 3")

The borders generally resemble those of the Gorn Hegemony in the 2370s decade of the primary universe. (ST reference: Star Charts)

All Section 31 maps in After Darkness, Part 3 were based on Star Charts.

Planets and systems

• Tau Lacertae system
  • Gornar