Romulan

The Romulans, a fictional race in the Star Trek universe, are descended from Vulcans and are characterized as being deceitful, cunning, and treacherous. They are the dominant race of the Romulan Star Empire, one of the larger empires in the Beta Quadrant of the Milky Way galaxy.

Romulans in the Alternate Universe

In the alternate Star Fleet Universe, the Romulans had a long-standing rivalry with the Gorn Confederation, with the old series Romulan ships no match against the advanced Gorn warships. (Indeed, the Romulans would have been subject to a full-scale invasion - and likely conquest - by the Klingon Empire - who had launched devastating raids against Romulan frontier bases and squadrons, leaving no survivors - had the Tholians not arrived in the region of Klingon space where the invasion was being prepared. The Klingons chose to keep these events a secret from the Romulans for quite some time afterwards...) The post-Smarba KR (old Klingon vessels sold to the Romulans and converted to Romulan technology) and new series fleets, along with the extensively refitted older vessels, were of a far more dangerous order of magnitude and soon found ample opportunity for combat when the Romulans joined the Coalition on the Day of the Eagle, 4 January Y173 by invading the already-besieged Federation, after the Klingon Ambassador Thad Vak Kaleen persuaded the Romulans to enter the General War, and sweetened the deal with a C9-series Klingon dreadnought. They were eventually driven back to their own borders despite significant advances into Federation space, and suffered a devastating nuclear winter on the world of Remus.

Related Topics:
Star Fleet Universe - Gorn Confederation - Tholians - Coalition - 4 January - General War - Remus

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After the General War, the Romulan empire erupted in Civil War, had their border stations destroyed in the course of the ISC War of Pacification and subsequently aided in resisting the Andromedan invasion of the galaxy from Y188 to Y205.

Related Topics:
ISC War of Pacification - Andromedan

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Star Fleet Universe Romulans of the early 23rd century were reliant on older series vessels converted to carry primitive warp engines (as opposed to totally lacking warp technology as was mentioned in earlier additions of the games) until the Treaty of Smarba with the Klingon Empire in Y159 supplied the Romulans with advanced warp engines and a number of mothballed Klingon vessels, which were refitted with Romulan weaponry and cloaking devices. This technology allowed the Romulans to develop a new series of vessels which proved to cause significant headaches to the enemies of the Star Empire in the General War.

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