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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Blue387: [QB] Hello, all. I'm a longtime lurker (five years!) and finally got around to registering an account. I've been throwing around some ideas on the origin of the Romulans and want to see what you think. For about two years, I was writing up ideas for a post-Voyager/Dominion War series involving the Romulans but ultimately shelved it. Using real-life Earth situations, I've mixed in canon information with some of my speculation. The Romulans were the descendents of genetically enhanced supersoldiers created by the Vulcans before the arrival of Surak over four thousand years ago. Like the Jem'Hadar, the Vulcans created the Romulans as foot soldiers to fight the Andorians and they were intended to be the future of Vulcan society where physical and mental imperfections were to be removed by eugenics but the project failed to control emotions. With the rise of logic and widespread support for Surak's teachings, the Romulans had no future purpose and were seen as a threat to society. The Romulans rebelled but their rebellion was suppressed. In response, the Vulcan High Command placed the surviving Romulans aboard sleeper ships to be launched into a distant star. Like Adam and Eve being forced out from the Garden of Eden, the Romulans were sent away from Vulcan. However, the Romulans managed to commandeer the stasis ship and, aware of their fate, decided to search for a new home world where they could build a new society. They landed on what became Romulus. In three hundred years, the Romulans conquered Calder II, Dessica II, Draken IV, Yadalla Prime and Barradas III. Over time, the Romulans conquered and liquidated various alien species in their zeal to overpower the Vulcans by imperial strength. The ruthless and rapid expansion by the Romulans led to tensions with the Klingons which led to intermittent war with the Romulans by the 22nd century. The Romulans maintained an empire with a parliamentary government with a chancellor and an emperor but was replaced in a military coup led by General D'deridex who merged the positions of emperor and chancellor into the office of praetor; on Earth, Adolf Hitler merged the offices of chancellor and president of Germany into Fuhrer. The new office assumed new powers and reduced the Senate to a symbolic but powerless rubber-stamp legislature. Most of the real power lies in the military, the praetor and the Continuing Committee; for example, warbirds are named for emperors, generals and praetors. The Continuing Committee resembles the Politburo Standing Committee in the People's Republic of China as a small clique of individuals with power, reducing the Romulan Senate to a symbolic but powerless rubber-stamp legislature. (There may also be a judicial branch of some sort.) Organization of Romulan government: [list] [*]Praetor (one) [/list] [list] [*]Continuing Committee (seven to nine members) [/list] [list] [*]Senate (44 senators, as seen in Nemesis, representing 44 regions and/or planets) [/list] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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