Romulans
Romulan Star Empire
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To outsiders, the Romulans are an enigmatic race. To the Romulans, however, other races have hardly any mystery left, for their talented intelligence agency, the Tal Shiar, has solved each of those mysteries. Romulan interests are protected by a veil of secrecy and covertness, just as their ships are hidden from prying eyes by powerful cloaking technologies. Their ships move undetected in groups until they are close to their unsuspecting victim, before decloaking and destroying their target in the ambush. Reports on Romulan society show it functions on exceptional research achievements; their industry and mining efforts are not quite as effective, however. The basic supply of energy and food for the populace is sufficient to meet day-to-day needs, and is rigorously regulated to be resource-saving, as are their fleet maintenance costs; Romulan fleets expect to decimate the enemy before they have any chance at mounting a defence. There is therefore little need to equip their vessels with expensive armour plating. This should not be seen as a weakness however; Romulan ships are known equally for their manoeuverability and heavy weapons, and for their ability to disappear at will.
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 Tal Shiar Headquarters
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"The Romulans are a Beta Quadrant race from the planet Romulus, but are biological cousins of the Vulcans, as they are descended from those who rejected Surak's reforms during the Vulcan Time of Awakening approximately sixteen hundred years ago. The Romulan Star Empire is the Romulan state, and is one of the major powers in known space. Some theorize that the Vulcans - and therefore also the Romulans - are descended from Sargon's people, a race who possibly colonized the planet Vulcan some six million years ago. This theory, however, was later contradicted by the discovery of ancient humanoid progenitor remains on Vulcan. When Surak's reforms of embracing logical principles and rejecting emotion spread rapidly across Vulcan in the 4th century, a minority rejected Surak's ideals; they chose to depart Vulcan rather than accept his teachings. Some of the descendents of these exiles are known to have established settlements on the planets Calder II, Dessica II, Draken IV, Yadalla Prime and Barradas III. These planets later formed the core worlds of the Debrune Empire, but infighting and lack of resources quickly took their toll, and the fledgling Debrune Empire collapsed. At some point, another group settled on the twin planets that came to be known as Romulus and Remus. Whilst both planets were habitable Minshara-class planets, Romulus was stable and inviting, but Remus was tilted on an unusual axis that resulted in half of the planet being bathed in perpetual sunlight, whilst the other was shrouded in perpetual darkness. The only truly habitable zone of the planet was found near the boundary between night and day, and even in this region, conditions are harsh. But the Romulans encountered the native Reman race in this habitable zone, and quickly learned to exploit the Reman people as slaves and fearsome ground troops. The later discovery of abundant dilithium deposits on Remus eventually allowed the Romulans to develop interstellar capabilities, and solidified the union of the twin worlds. This union eventually became the foundation of an interstellar Empire that has since expanded to many worlds, reaching across much of the Beta Quadrant. That power eventually came to be known as the Romulan Star Empire."
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