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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] Actually, I think he merely said "Warp drive turned a bunch of Romulan thugs into an empire." Then he said something about "a century ago" and the Romulans. This doesn't mean they only got warp capability a hundred years before. I'll give my answers to the questions. I'm sure I'll be repeating what people have already said, but it's easier not to try to filter out all that. Bear in mind, some of this is just my conjecture... 1. They must have had it. The idea that they didn't is from "Balance of Terror" when Scotty says that the Romulan ship has "impulse power only" (or something to that effect). Considering that the thing seemed to have warp nacelles, I think what this meant was that their warp drive was powered by a fusion reactor (like impulse drives). Therefore, they had warp; it just wasn't very good, since they didn't use a M/A reaction and couldn't generate enough power to get high warp speeds. 2. (see #1) 3. I see two possibilities here. One is that they had primitive warp drive when they left Vulcan. Once they settled on Romulus/Romii, wars and other struggles kept scientific advance to a minimum, so they still had approximately the same level of technology at the time of the Terro-Romulan War. The other possibility is that they didn't have warp drive when they left Vulcan and, due to war etc., they didn't develop it until just before the T-R War. This, of course, means the Romulan homeworlds would be rather close to Vulcan. A while back, I was trying to find a star that would meet the conditions for being Romulus, and I settled on 107 Piscium. It's in the right direction, about 24ly from Earth, and a little less than 18ly from Vulcan. It's also of the same spectral class as Vulcan. It would make sense that, when looking for a new home, the Romulans would look for a star similar to their old one. 4. I never really thought about this one... 5. I don't rercall the dialogue you mention from "Homefront". I'd be interested to know what they said. 6. Well, this is completely speculatory on my part, but here's the story I came up with. During an exploratory mission, an Earth ship comes across Romulus. They land and find a bunch of Vulcans (so they think). The leader of the landing party, in an attempt to show that they are friendly, flashes the Vulcan salute. The Romulans realizes they're dealing w/ allies of the Vulcans (w/ whom they are just concluding the war mentioned in [i]Voyager[/i]'s "Death Wish"), so they kill them and everyone on the ship. They manage to translate the information in the ship well enough to figure out where it came from and they go attack Earth. 7. Continuing from my previous answer... I thik the Vulcans are just finishing up their war w/ the Romulans, the one started by "Quinn", as mentioned in "Death Wish". Of course, the Romulans know who they're fighting, but the Vulcans never see the Romulans, so they don't realize that these are their long-lost cousins. Anyway, the Vulcans opt out of Earth's war w/ the Romulans (if you were just about to come to peace w/ someone, would you want to rile them up again by allying w/ their newest enemies?). I think the Andorians, being a self-described aggressive race probably lent a hand, but no doubt they were involved a few conflicts of their own at the time and couldn't do a whole lot to help Earth. The Tellarites... well, we don't really know enough about them to guess what they might do. I'm going to conjecture that they just sat back and watched, just to keep it a war mainly between Earth and Romulus. 8. Well, considering that Earth is the "capital" of the Federation, I think the formation of the UFP was probably the doing of the Terran leaders. They probably formed the alliance so that, if they ever got in another war, the other races would have to help them. Of course, they didn't tell anyone that that was their plan, so everyone thought that the UFP was formed for the greater good of all these groups. Eventually, this became the ideal behind the Federation. Sort of ironic, eh? :-) 9. Well, if you have subspace sensors, you can see a warp ship coming. If not, you won't see it 'til it gets there. Since they had warp drive (see above) and subspace "radio" (see below), I'd say they also had FTL sensors. And I know someone will argue against this w/ the Ferengi thing. Well, I don't think the Ferengi at Maxia Zeta didn't [i]have[/i] FTL sensors. I think they just weren't operational. Perhaps they were knocked out earlier in the battle. 10. If the treaty was negotiated over subspace radio, they must have had subspace radio. Otherwise, they couldn't have negotiated the treaty [i]over subspace radio[/i]. Simple. :-) [/QB][/QUOTE]

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