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Robin, how long does it take for a Thalaron generator to recharge after firing? (Just asking for future reference.)

Depends on the size.  Antipersonnel generators on drone scouts can recharge in around 30 seconds, while the big planet-scale life-destroying ones take at least an hour to recharge, if not more.  (Recharge time increases with weapon scale)

Thandio I think was the industrial one. That's what I was planning on targeting with the bioweapon. The other was the research station. And that had to have a self destruct. Darn it!!

The research station is still operational. It's just the secret base that self-destructed.

Well what remains of the secret base is no longer secret... I believe that even the most primitive sensors could pick up a matter-antimatter explosion.  Whatever they were doing down there must've been using a lot of power...

But either way the Tal Shiar will most definitely scavenge through the entire planet, and even if they can't find any trace of what existed before in the underground bunker, they'll most likely make a new secret weapons lair there.  

Also, prepare for the scientists and engineers at the research station to be enslaved.  Because that's the way the Romulans roll.  Also I might have been influenced by Stellaris. 

Thandio I think was the industrial one. That's what I was planning on targeting with the bioweapon. The other was the research station. And that had to have a self destruct. Darn it!!

The research station is still operational. It's just the secret base that self-destructed.

Well what remains of the secret base is no longer secret... I believe that even the most primitive sensors could pick up a matter-antimatter explosion.  Whatever they were doing down there must've been using a lot of power...

But either way the Tal Shiar will most definitely scavenge through the entire planet, and even if they can't find any trace of what existed before in the underground bunker, they'll most likely make a new secret weapons lair there.  

Also, prepare for the scientists and engineers at the research station to be enslaved.  Because that's the way the Romulans roll.  Also I might have been influenced by Stellaris. 

From what I can tell, an underground antimatter explosion would actually be far more difficult to detect than a nuclear explosion of similar yield. Antimatter releases all its energy in the form of gamma radiation, and produces no other radioactive byproducts (in other words, no fallout at all). The gamma rays would largely be absorbed by the surrounding rock as well, since I depicted the base as deep underground. So as far as I can tell, the only significant sign on the surface would be the earthquake.

An annihilation so far underground would be nearly undetectable.

Robin, heads up, the building Commander Gela is in will be attacked in my next post. She may not survive.

I love how you added suspense with "she may not survive." That's just awesome.

Also, I'm kinda saddened that nobody has said anything about my post. Only Tau has said something, and that was in a PM.

Robin, heads up, the building Commander Gela is in will be attacked in my next post. She may not survive.

Like feel free to kill off her security forces, but keep her intact. She is, after all, my only female lead at the moment...

It depends on her choice, Robin. It's always about choice..

And I like how you made yourself a hateful rapist, Ara :]

An annihilation so far underground would be nearly undetectable.

How far underground are we talking? I'm assuming that they overloaded the research station's antimatter reactors, because building self destruct buttons linked to actual dedicated self-destruct systems is too risky (it could go off accidentally).  So I assumed a bigger blast yield. But in the event that the blast is small enough to be equivalent to nuclear power in scale, then yeah, it'd be a geologic anomaly that would be investigated, probably not initially by the Tal Shiar then.

It depends on her choice, Robin. It's always about choice..

And I like how you made yourself a hateful rapist, Ara :]

And the choice is always to be cowardly, in the case of Romulans

And yeah, Ara, the rape was a nice touch... though it seems these lizards are much too similar to Klingons in their faults— overly aggressive, mysogynistic, constantly infighting. Viking lizard Klingons. I like them though. They seem pretty chaotic, and are a nice random die on the game board of galactic politics.

And yeah, Ara, the rape was a nice touch... though it seems these lizards are much too similar to Klingons in their faults— overly aggressive, mysogynistic, constantly infighting. Viking lizard Klingons. I like them though. They seem pretty chaotic, and are a nice random die on the game board of galactic politics.

The misogyny and constant infighting ends now. Be prepared for a completely honorable unified feminist race of lizards who are still overly aggressive sometimes. And guess who we're teaming up with.

An annihilation so far underground would be nearly undetectable.

How far underground are we talking? I'm assuming that they overloaded the research station's antimatter reactors, because building self destruct buttons linked to actual dedicated self-destruct systems is too risky (it could go off accidentally).  So I assumed a bigger blast yield. But in the event that the blast is small enough to be equivalent to nuclear power in scale, then yeah, it'd be a geologic anomaly that would be investigated, probably not initially by the Tal Shiar then.

Nope, the research station is in a completely different location from the secret base. They're about as far apart as, say, New York and Melbourne. (The secret base is rather small, and in general mostly self-sufficient.) And by small antimatter explosion, I meant small. I was thinking of something on the order of 0.01 to 0.1 grams, which, according to this website is the equivalent of 430 tons to 4.3 kilotons of TNT (in other words, much smaller than even Hiroshima). Then, of course, Nukemap can approximate the size of that explosion. (And much like in Star Wars, antimatter is not a common source of fuel in Wintreath.)

Edit: Yes, I know this could have been easily achieved with conventional explosives, but I decided to follow the Rule of Cool in this case.

And yeah, Ara, the rape was a nice touch... though it seems these lizards are much too similar to Klingons in their faults— overly aggressive, mysogynistic, constantly infighting. Viking lizard Klingons. I like them though. They seem pretty chaotic, and are a nice random die on the game board of galactic politics.

The misogyny and constant infighting ends now. Be prepared for a completely honorable unified feminist race of lizards who are still overly aggressive sometimes. And guess who we're teaming up with.

Romulans don't even need to be feminists because they were never misogynist asshats in the first place!! ( Jk )  Also join the Romulan side.  We have bagels.   

@BraveSirRobin

You have a choice now. One will definitely kill your character, one will definitely result in her living and one might end in her death or might not...

There are other consequences as well.

Choose wisely.....

Decisions decisions. Can I just bring the Romulan ship into the atmosphere and blast the assaulting forces point blank? Or is that not an option?