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INTEL REPORTS

Forty years ago, there was a Gorn colony on Beta Scorpii III, a mineral rich planet totally intolerable to either Gorn or Tholian life, so the colonies are all under force fields, pressure domes, and, in some cases, underground. A Tholian squadron, however, attacked and destroyed the colony, killing all of the Gorn on the planet. The Tholians then built their own atmospheric domes on the surface. The Gorn declared war but the hostilities dragged on for over two years until the fighting just died out. No resolution was ever reached, and the Tholians kept the planet reasonably well-protected to keep the Gorn away. In the time after, the Gorn were too busy fighting among themselves, and assessing blame for their failure to defeat the Tholians to commit a large part of their resources to fighting a protracted conflict. The Tholians, on the other hand, wisely kept from attacking the Gorn so that they would not unite against a common foe.

Recently the Gorn sent a task force of ships to retake the planet, which succeeded mainly due to the cooperation from the recent alliance of the Gorn clans.

This series of on-again/off-again fighting has been loosely called The Tholian/Gorn Conflict. Despite facing the superior firepower possessed by the Gorn Navy, the Tholians were able to defend their new conquests, using their superior mobility and superior numbers to basically surround and capture/destroy lumbering Gorn starships which are not known for their manoeuverability. There have been at least 7 or 8 distinct "skirmishes" in this conflict to date.

Both the Tholian Holdfast and the Gorn Hegemony have since asked for the Federation to mediate the conflict.