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Well "Romii" would seem to be a contraction/corruption of "Romulus II," meaning presumably that it is a binary sister to Romulus (I). These being stars, not planets.
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i think the Futura looks much more authentic for Fleet readouts and maps and such.. the other font (seen on the HULL PRESSUR COMP'TS or whatever graphic from TOS) sems to fit better only for technical schematics..
and history and biographical data seems to be limited to not typewriter fonts, but definitely typeset looking black text on white screen.
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Nice TAS reference, all the same.
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and the other planet, the one that was missing.. i was gonna comment on why there were other star systems only a few AUs away.. although i suppose they could be light years distant.. just 'under' the 2D plane of the map..
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Was it BoT that established the RNZ at about one light-year wide? If so, and if that band on that map is supposed to be 1ly thick, then "Romii" or "Rom II" or whatever is definitely not in the same system as Romulus.
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The 1 lightyear thickness is conjecture based on 1 lightyear squares on that BoT map. And it doesn't make much sense anyway that Romii and Remus would be the same. I mean, if Romulus and Romii on that map are planets, where's their sun?
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Those squares don't say 1 ly - it just says 5000.
What could the 5000 be? Kellicams?
The thing about there being no star - maybe this again fits with my theory above that this is a solar system map - and that the Earth Outposts are either on Asteroids in the Romulus system or on Kuiper belt objects. Romulus and Romii are close planets. The Neutral zone might run through the system (maybe between the last planet and the kuiper belt objects.) And this is why the Romulans didn't need FTL. AND why there was a comet... with a TAIL!
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"The Alternative Factor" had Starbase 200 in it. There were only supposed to go up to about 17, but sometimes writers didn't know. Thus Starbases 200 & 27.
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