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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Since "Balance of Terror" doesn't have explicit references either for or against the Romulans having had warp drive in the old war, I've been pondering ways to make the warp-less alternative work. GeneK had plenty of good arguments at news://news.startrek.com/startrek.expertforum.ricksternbach either way, and I've shamelessly adopted the idea that the Romulan Neutral Zone actually only encloses a single star system, with Romulus and Remus co-orbiting a star named Romii. This system also features at least one comet that loiters out to the RNZ, which is a thin bubble perhaps one AU thick but one lightyear in exterior diameter. And this bubble is only a couple of dozen lightyears away from Vulcan or Earth, easily reachable by STL ships within a century or so. For Vulcanoids, that wouldn't even require generational ships. Were this true, then Romulans certainly wouldn't need warp drive for "Balance of Terror" to work (except as the drive system of their plasma weapons - manned warpships might be more difficult to create than unmanned warp weapons). So could the Romulan Star Empire have lacked warp drive until the TOS era and the alliance with Klingons? One argument against that is the existence of offshoot colonies in "Gambit". But those could have been founded by sublight ships, similar to those the Romulans would have used in a migration from Vulcan to Romulus/Remus. "Gambit" states that some of these colonies are in different sectors, but perhaps sectors in the vicinity of Romulus are very small for historical reasons (dating back to the times when ships were slow so space had to be divided into smaller volumes for organizational purposes). And the planets need not be full 20 ly away from each other to be in different sectors, even if sectors are 20x20x20ly^3. Also, the Encyclopedia makes some veiled remarks about the ancient Romulans having "spanned the quadrant". What would be the exact "Gambit" reference used as the source? And could this simply mean "quadrant" in the sense the word is used in, say, STII (apparently 1/4 of a sector)? If the "Gambit" references can be explained away, then I can't think of any other evidence that would require the pre-TOS Romulans to have been warp-capable. I don't even remember clear evidence that the RNZ would have to be bigger than 1 ly across overall, or house more than one system - has another Romulan star system ever been mentioned besides the Romulus/Remus/Romii one? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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