The D18-class Lara'atan is a type of Klingon starship classified as a destroyer. (FASA RPG: Klingon Ship Recognition Manual)
Background
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Lara'atan is Klingonaase for "protector of brothers", but Starfleet personnel have nicknamed this class "Gull", owing to its appearance. (FASA RPG: Klingon Ship Recognition Manual)
Service HistoryEdit
In 2274, Captain Kresz sutai-Kargon commanded a group of six D18-class ships during a raid on a Federation outpost in the Orion Sector. When the starships USS Kongo, USS Halk, and USS Rome arrived in response to the outpost's distress call, Kargon's forces destroyed the Starfleet ships Halk and Rome losing only two of his ships in the process. (FASA RPG module: Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update).
- The timeline in the Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update claims the Kongo was destroyed as well when it engaged the Klingons. Unless another starship were assigned the name, the Kongo wouldn't have been able to participate in the novel Shell Game or in Operation: Retrieve.
FeaturesEdit
- forthcoming
Known vesselsEdit
IKS Protector • IKS Dark Hand (D18B) • IKS Defender (D18B) • IKS Ganh Wusav (D18B) • IKS Hunter (D18B) • IKS Kaxfiw (D18B) • IKS Ky'jecum (D18B) • IKS Marauder (D18B) • IKS Plunder (D18B) • unnamed Lara'atan-class starships
