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Saying the Romulans couldn't have had FTL drive in the war is a joke. Remember how the Klingons outgunned the Enterprise was when it didn't have warp drive?
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Heck, DS-9 only had thrusters and it managed to go FTL, a quarter of a light-year.. why couldn't a Romulan ship that had 'simple impulse power'?
The warp field is the key... look at the Warbirds in TNG.. they didn't have a M/MA warp core, they had some sort of artificial singularity... implying totally different ways to make a warp field.
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The Romulans had to have FTL before the War. They should have had FTL when they left Vulcan. It would have been cool if they'd have given the Romulans an alternate sourse of FTL like soliton wave riding or jumpgates or one of those "slingshot arrays" like was seen in Voyager.
That way the Romulans could have had FTL without their ships necessarially being FTL equipped.
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quote:Originally posted by TheWoozle: Heck, DS-9 only had thrusters and it managed to go FTL, a quarter of a light-year.. why couldn't a Romulan ship that had 'simple impulse power'?
The warp field is the key... look at the Warbirds in TNG.. they didn't have a M/MA warp core, they had some sort of artificial singularity... implying totally different ways to make a warp field.
On both of these I'm going to have to mention a little detail. I don't remember DS9 going FTL, I remember it getting up to impulse speeds by creating a subspace bubble and pushing the thrusters to max.
On the Warbirds, they make a warp field the exact same way that the E-D does except for the power source. The process before plasma interacts with the warp field coils can be different, but the process afterwards is a straight forward process. How they create the plasma is of no concern to the process, only that more higher energy plamsa = more speed.
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