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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] [QUOTE]My whole point about Varley being a moron is that if he'd just left the issue alone, the Romulans would have never gotten involved.[/QUOTE]You don't know that. Varley may have had reason to believe that the Romulans were close to locating Iconia. It's not unlikely to assume that both sides probe the Neutral Zone on a regular basis - meaning that the non-discovery of Iconia up to that point had been a fluke. Perhaps the archeological dig that Varley saw was being monitored by the Romulans as part of their intelligence network (it makes sense that the Romulans would monitor worlds in the Federation that border the Zone ) - meaning it would've been very possible for Romulan Tal'Shiar to work out what Varley worked out and realize "Oh Crap!" Hell, for all we know, there were Starfleet standing orders to the effect of "We think the Iconians are just myth, but if they're not, drop everything..." As I said before, if Varley was able to figure out where Iconia was how he did, it is really quite plausible to believe that similar artifacts are located on worlds within Romulan territory, worlds which might have archeological expeditions in progress too. You say "The Romulans would NEVER have found out", but how do you know? You don't. You assume that the clues which led Varley to Iconia are the only clues that exist. If the Romulans had located Iconia, it would have meant war - a war waged with Iconian technology that the Federation would have lost. Varley made the right decision - better to lose everyone on the Yamato, better even to risk conventional war with the Romulans, then to allow them access to Iconia. [QUOTE] The Romulans investigated after a bright shiney Galaxy class battleship violated the Zone and they were right to investigate too.[/QUOTE]Actually, I think there's more to the story than that. The Federation's most powerful class of ship enters the Zone - and the Romulans send ONE warship? A second of the same class enters the zone, and the Romulans send - the same warship, without backup? No, that warbird was already in the Zone for whatever reason - even possibly looking for Iconia. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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