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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cargile: [QB] Allow me to extropolate on the starship advancement idea. I take only canon sources into consideration. We know the Romulans were once part of the Vulcans, but seperated during a dispute of which they knew they could no longer co-exist peacefully. From what we know, the ships they left on were sublight. This tells us that they were advanced enough to understand space travel, yet not advanced enough to grasp warp physics. The descandents of the original Vulcan seperatist arrive at what is later dubbed Romulus by the humans. Let's say that a hundred years from now a simular dispute and war erupts on Earth with some of the population leaving on advance starships toward the Alpha Century system. Generation ships are going to suffer a withdrawl of technologic placement with each generation born on the ships. This will happen through inadaquate training, and complacency and dependancy upon technology not to breakdown. We have lived with televisions for decades, but how many out there can repair a faulty television? Also such space travel must prioritize what they deem more important for survival. If the ship is advanced enough, it can take care of itself with little manual intervention. This happens to be the kind of ship you would want for a Generation starcruiser. "We have more problems with enviromental systems than the automatic propulsion system, so we will focus out efforts on the enviromental systems." In a sense, with such an advanced ship, less propulsion studies will be taught to the next generation, unless it is faulty. And if it is faulty to an extreme it must not be that great of a ship. Since we know the Romulans reached their new home, we know the ships they traveled on was superior work. Now when a race finds a new home, stellar propulsion advancement is not a high priorty. We found a home, now lets put our efforts to making it OUR home. Here technology in space travel suffers as people focus their attentions to settling a new world. Settling Romulas and Remus had to have taken a great toll on the colonist. Their spendature of energy on making those planets home would have taken from the energy that could have been spent on developing a faster star drive. I hope you can see the common sense in this. If not, I don't how else to say it. This allows for the Vulcans to continue their star drive project, while retarding the Romulans theirs. So that by the Romulan War, they still have no warp drive, but they do have a prototype that is eventually successful by 2158, and put into use during the war. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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