GHS Marianela


 * In, Gorn Hegemony ships were fitted with the prefix GHS in the same fashion Starfleet added USS before a ship's name.

Originally constructed as a Prime Industries heavy enforcer, its architecture was likened to that of a Gorn freighter, hence its boxy design. The ship had a career of looting unsuspecting ships in the southern segment of the Neutral Zone and the northwest border of the Klingon Empire. Its Romulan reporting name was Marianela and it meant Ravageosaur in Romulan. By 2376, though, it has been captured while operating in Gorn border zones. Her crew was allowed to operate the ship, under a Gorn captain, on the promise to loot from pirates rather than from civilians.

Since its Prime Industries builders didn't seem to name their ships, the Gorn Space Command adopted the Romulan reporting name, because using "dinosaur"-ish names displeased the Black Crest at the time, even more so when the Federation reporting name was Ravageosaur.

Background
The GHS Marianela has been named after the book and the character of the same name created by Benito Pérez Galdós.