The Mystery of the Romulan Free State
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2020
- The destruction of the Romulan Star Empire left a power vacuum in the galaxy. But what's been going on since then?
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I prefer Star Trek Online's cannon where the Romulan goverment partly survived and is now a puppet of the Tal Shiar with a number of independent refugee colonies spread out across former Romulan space. which form a Romulan Republic fighting a civil war against the empire with federation and Klingon support.
"Greater Romulan Union"? Well, now, that's a silly name. Who would call their nation that?
Poor Romulans fell victim to poor story telling and the great devour named "mystery box"....
"If knowledge is power then to be unknown is to be unconquerable"
For the record, PIC's pilot episode establishes that it was the Romulan sun itself that went supernova, not the Hobus system as in the original EU. That would explain how it decapitated the Star Empire so quickly and thoroughly.
Wouldn't it be astropolitical instead of geopolitical? Since it's between stars, not on Earth.
There's probably several competing states, including some kind of Klingon-backed faction, possibly a Cardassian-backed faction, and so on. The Romulan Free State might be trying to curry favour with the Federation.
Just an observation, that in the same way that nations that call themselves "The Democratic Republic of
Personally I’d like it if the Romulan Republic from STO were made canon. I enjoyed that storyline the most and I think it opens the way for a lot of new ideas to explore. Yes the Federation needs rivals but I don’t like a whole species being just the bad guys with only a few exemptions. The idea of an underdog group of former baddies trying to build something new while trying to redeem themselves in the eyes of galaxy, having to defend their idealism from their own more traditionalist brethren, it sounds really interesting to me.
Reason for the supernova : ICONIANS
"They're trying to claim it when it'd advantageous and deny it when it's not"
"Ah, the romulans so predictably treacherous"
I wouldn't be surprised that after the destruction of Romulus, the Romulans had themselves a civil war that probably still wages on. Without Romulus to unite them, the various factions and colonies would've found others to join and consolidate their power while others would try to take over what remains of the Empire.
I think it's likely that the Free State is competing with other Romulan factions. I'm rooting for whichever one that Sela's running :P
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I see the Free State as a precursor to the Romulan Republic from STO. The Free State just has a hell of a lot more problems to iron out before it can reach that level.
I prefer the STO version of events, the Tal'Shiar clame the Romulan Star Empire name and the breakaway moderates are the Romulan Republic.
I think you've put more thought into this than the last 10 years of writers have
I really wish none of this was canon, but I guess we have to make do. I’ll just keep imagining that Star Trek ended with janeway coming back and it’s been happily ever after since then
There are probably other Romulan factions fighting each other for supremacy like Romulan Republic or Romulan-Cardassian Alliance. The Free State just happens to have the Tal Shiar in their ranks.