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If the entire planet were all one city, no oceans or any bodies of water, then you could have that high population on a planet. We Aesir support our wildlife because it's tradition to hunt. We can't hunt if we overpopulate a planet and destroy all the wildlife, can we? It also helps with saving civilian lives when defending systems as no planet has too high a population to evacuate. Not too much invested into planets also means not much lost if we were to lose one unless it's a craft world.

  It's much harder to conquer a highly populated world, though, too.

Actually, if it's only populated by people who don't fight back, it's quite easy. If it's scarcely populated by people who do fight back and can hide in the environment, it's much harder.

  Romulans are fiercely patriotic and xenophobic so... 

You can resist in your political ways. But don't worry! I have bullets for all of them.

Ah, politics. The Laurentian weapon of choice.

Romulan Star Empire
The Factbook Continues...

Spacecraft and Starbases

Civilian Spacecraft

Though the civilian fleet might not receive as much funding as the Romulan Star Navy, they really do not need to.  Most trade is handled by a few major corporations within the Empire, most notably the Romulan Trade Federation and the Imperial Corporate Continuum.  They both have rather large trade vessels at their disposal, and also have been accused of converting vessels into warships to extract trade concessions from numerous worlds.  Of course, these corporations both vehemently deny these claims. 

RTF Ring Carrier

The RTF Ring Carrier is officially classified as the Capitalism-class RF-3312 Heavy Freighter.  These massive cargo vessels are capable of transporting 25 million metric tons of cargo across vast intra-imperial hyperspace routes.  They are generally crewed by 1500 personnel of the RTF and are capable of defending themselves with their armament of 28 Quad-laser cannons.  They have onboard provisions for 500 days, but the general trade tours that they take are usually no more than 300 days.  They are equipped with heavy deflector shields and a class 2 hyperdrive.  Some captains have also installed backup Warp 7 capable warp drives, but these modifications are quite rare. 

ICC Cargo Cruisers

The Imperial Commerce Continuum is an organisation that devotes nearly 90% of its annual profits towards expanding itself, and its fleet is the largest in the empire as far as number of vessels go.  The ICC also owns more than 300 worlds in systems within the empire that are rich in minerals and heavy metals.  ICC mines produce nearly 70% of ore employed throughout the Romulan Star Empire.  ICC Cargo Cruisers come in four versions of the same basic design.  The most numerous are the 550 meter long Aurum-class Ore Transports, which ship ICC ore throughout the empire and beyond, even trading into the Wintreath Remnant. Next are the Viator-class Passenger Cruisers, capable of transporting 30,000 to 80,000 passengers from planet to planet, depending on the duration of the journey that they have been modified for as well as the class of the passengers.  Thirdly, there are the Denarii-class Traders which, as their name would suggest, create profit for the ICC through the purchase and sale of various goods throughout the empire.  Finally, the ICC operates Legium-class "Payment Recovery" Cruisers.  These vessels hold nearly 25,000 battle droids, are armed with 26 Heavy Disruptors, and are armoured by ablative adamantium in to complement their already upgraded heavy dual-deflector shielding.  Legium class vessels are generally enough to make any debtor pay up, and if they cannot repay the ICC, they are awarded employment on a mining rig on an ICC world or asteroid. 

Vulcana Banking Frigate

  Heavily armoured and highly maneuverable, Vulcana Banking Frigates are the transport of choice of Vulca, the empire-wide Bank of Vulcan.  The frigates are approximately 800 meters long and carry crews of approximately 700.  Most vessel functions are mechanised though.  Note:  Though these ships are mechanised, all control is wired through the bridge, so the crew onboard may override any external commands (except those dispensed by the Vulca Fleet Command with dual-encryption and a series of top secret file selections).

Military Spacecraft

  The Star Navy is the most well funded institution in the empire, with almost 80% of heavy industry being military starship construction.  Approximately 15% of the Annual Romulan GDP is poured into the Star Navy, and not even a penny of that is wasted.  The result of this massive, and some in the empire would call illogical, spending is one of the most modern, capable fleets in the galaxy. 

Strike Craft

  Romulan Strike Craft are generally built to be easily disposable and cheap to build in large quantities.  As a result, most Strike Craft deployed by Imperial Warships are piloted by onboard computer systems that are designed to attack any non-Romulan vessel designated as hostile by their host ship.  They come in the following classes:

Talon-class Drone Interceptor

The primary Romulan space superiority craft, Talon-class Drone Interceptors are capable of four hours of continuous combat without the need for refueling.  Talon Drones communicate with their host ship's central computer for orders, but in the event the central computer cannot be reached, all non-Romulan vessels are considered hostile targets by the Talon's programming.  They are mass produced in foundries across the empire and are generally deployed in swarms.  They are carried aboard most Romulan vessels and on all Romulan Space Stations.

Scorpio-class Drone Strike Bomber

The Scorpio-class Drone Strike Bomber is the most widely deployed Strike Bomber in the Empire, and it is most often employed in squadrons of seven to hunt down illegal smuggling operations within Romulan space.  As a result, they have the capacity to operate within programmed mission guidelines and have more sophisticated programming than the Talon-class Interceptors.  They each carry two wing-mounted plasma disruptor pulse cannons and a load of ten photon torpedoes.

Gladius-class Manned Superiority Fighter

The primary manned Romulan space superiority craft, Gladius fighters are slightly more heavily armed and armoured than their drone conterpart, the Talon-class, and capable of flying combat missions for approximately 6 hours before refuel is required.  They are carried aboard most Romulan warships. 

Javelin-class Manned Heavy Strike Bomber

The most widely employed space-based heavy bomber in the imperial arsenal is without a doubt the Javelin class.  TBC

Dominia-class Shuttlecraft

Standard Shuttlecraft.  TBC

Charon-class Runabout

Often employed as a personnel transport or a light scout vessel, Charon-class Runabouts are capable of Warp 7. 

Romulan Cruisers

There is a lot of variation in the appearance and function of Romulan light and medium warships.  Because the Star Navy views specialised battleships and heavy cruisers are inefficient, they prefer to make their lighter, less expensive warships more specialised. 

Terminus-class Light Warship

The smallest warp-capable vessel in the Romulan Star Navy, the Terminus-class Light Warships are approximately 130 meters long, crewed by 85 personnel, and commanded by a Centurion.  Terminus-class vessels are generally employed only for routine customs inspections, quelling minor rebellions by miners in uninhabited systems within the empire, or for scouting enemy territory.  Their armaments include four disruptor banks and two forward and one rear torpedo launch tube.  They also carry cloaking devices, as they generally are no match to any vessel greater than 150 meters in length.  This vessel design has been in service for over a century.

Janus-class Interdiction Cruiser

  Quite aptly named by the Star Navy, the Janus-class allows entrances—and exits, provided that they're cleared by the Tal Shiar.  Crewed by 600 Tal Shiar personnel and armed with a gravity well projector in addition to standard armament, Janus-class vessels are generally used to spring traps on unsuspecting enemy fleets, prohibiting their escape as the other Romulan forces close in for the kill. 

Harpy-class Close Fire Support Cruiser

Romulan Harpies are heavily armed and rather compact, generally being employed to screen vulnerable capital ships with overwhelming firepower.  They are approximately 350 meters in length, crewed by 510 and also assigned a 80 strong Security Contingent.  They are capable of cloaking and very numerous throughout the fleet, and favoured commands.  Their desirability might stem from their often long assignments away from the rest of the fleet on enemy cargo raiding patrols, where the Commander and the crew are generally awarded 60% of the captured goods.

Talon-class Transport Attack Ship

A relatively common vessel in the Romulan fleet, Talon TA ships are approximately 750 meters long and are crewed by 1,080 soldiers.  They can cloak, carry class 1 hyperdrives, backup warp drives, and are optimised for assault on smaller troop and supply transport vessels.  Their primary weapons systems are pulse disruptions, quantum torpedoes, and traditional shipboard disruptors. 

Draco-class Destroyer

One of the sleekest vessels in the fleet, Draco-class Destroyers are crewed by 335 and approximately 160 meters in length.  Their armament consists of six heavy disruptor banks, 16 Talon-class Interceptors, 8 Scorpio-class Bombers, 4 Dominia-class Shuttlecraft, and five torpedo tubes (Three forward, two rear).  Their defenses include standard deflector shielding and a cloaking device that can operate for short, 12-hour periods of time before the vessel must de-cloak to recharge their batteries.  Their maximum speed is Warp 9.99996 with their advanced warp drive, but can be outfitted with Class 1.2 hyperdrives as well. 

Lucio-class Destroyer

Designed to cope with the need for a greater number of vessels in the fleet while maintaining the crew numbers needed to support it, the Lucio-class Destroyers are 140-meter long vessels crewed by 147 and carry armament of six heavy disruptor banks, 16 Talon-class Interceptors, 8 Scorpio-class Bombers, 2 Dominia-class Shuttlecraft and five torpedo tubes (Three forward, two rear).  Lucio-class Destroyers are heavily automated, with many ship systems being operated and maintained by the main computer.  Their defenses include standard deflector shielding supplemented by  ablative deuranium/adamantium armour and a cloaking device capable of operating for 24-hour periods of time before requiring recharge.  All Lucio-class Destroyers have been equipped with Class 1.4 hyperdrives and backup standard warp engines capable of Warp 7.5.

Tutela-class Minelayer

  The 320-meter long Tutela-class minelayers are crewed by 129 and capable of deploying 1152 mines at a time that are cloaked and hidden in subspace, which are then either manually activated by a Romulan Fleet Command or pulled out of subspace by attraction to the metals in the hulls of enemy ships.  Tutela-class minelayers are quite often deployed to hundreds of locations across the empire which the five Fleet Commands determine as moderately strategic.

Raptor-class Torpedo Frigate

  The Raptor-class Torpedo Frigates are Imperial Naval Vessels that are capable of long-range combat and planetary/colonial bombardment with their modified torpedo tubes and large armament of torpedoes.  Raptor Torpedo Frigates are generally 220 meters in length, crewed by 237 and armed with 6 medium disruptor banks, 4 accelerated long-range bombardment torpedo tubes and 3 standard torpedo tubes (2 forward, one rear).  Their defences include a cloaking device, deflector shielding and ablative armour. 

Fidens-class Escort Destroyer

  Near the end of the last decade, the Romulan Fleets put in a request to the Imperial Starship Design Bureau for a dedicated escort vessel that was well armoured and had good firepower, but was small and compact enough to be highly manoeuvrable, capable of dodging enemy projectile weapons through the combination of a light ship with the most powerful impulse drives in the fleet.  The result?  The Fidens-class Escort Destroyer, a 140-meter long warship manned by 48-80 personnel (max. capacity=150) and equipped with four heavy pulse plasma disruptor cannons, two heavy disruptor banks, and two torpedo launchers (1 forward, one bacl).  The Fidens-class Escort Destroyers also have a small contingent of four Dominia/B Shuttlecraft (heavily modified Dominia design capable of fitting in small storage spaces). 

Tal Shiar Excursor-class Light Surveillance Cruiser

  A smaller vessel that almost never decloaks, the Tal Shiar's Excursor-class vessels have little need for much in the way of offensive or defensive systems, although the 80-man, 172-meter cruisers are generally given almost minimal shielding (light deflector shielding without ablative deuranium armour) and only a few ambush-related offensive weapons (11 light disruptor arrays, forward and back torpedo launcher), they do carry four warp-capable (warp 5) runabouts that are capable of conducting close-range surveillance and sabotage.  Excursor-class vessels are equipped with cloaks and contain some of the largest sensor arrays ever installed on Romulan warships.

Reaper-class Star Frigate

  An 825 meter long frigate crewed by 200 Romulan soldiers and approximately 2000 activated battle droids (with an additional invasion force of 50,000 battle droids and their equipment capable of being deployed from storage) and armed with twin prow heavy plasma disruptor turrets, two heavy long-range ion cannons, 52 twin turbo-disruptor cannons, 76 point defence disruptors,8 flak guns and a tractor beam array, the Reaper-class Star Frigates were designed as cheap to manufacture star frigates capable of raiding enemy cargo routes and subjugating smaller moons or mining stations.  They are capable of cloaking and carry rather heavy deflector shielding for their size.

Romulan Capital Ships

Romulan Capital Ships are the pride of the Romulan Fleet, and are maintained by their crews as though they worked in heaven itself.  A position on a Capital Ship is hard to come by in the Star Navy, as the qualifications required to crew such a vessel are five years in the Star Navy and an exemplary record.  All Romulan Capital Ships have some basic defensive systems that allow their continual function even when main power and half of their subsystems are offline.  These include emergency force fields and, when the field emitters have been knocked out by further bombardment, physical bulkhead doors. 

D'Deridex Class Battlecruiser

The most numerous capital ship in the Romulan Fleet, and although the D'Deridex-class Battlecruiser design is more than a century old, the battlecruiser design and fleet are constantly being updated and refitted to compensate for weaknesses exposed combat with other vessels.  At approximately 1070 meters in length, it is also one of the larger vessels in the Star Navy.  On average, D'Deridex-class vessels have crews of 1450, security details of 250, and the capability to transport and support a half-Legion invasion force (9216 Troopers) and their support contingent (2784 personnel).  The D'Deridex class shuttlebay is large and quite versatile, and the strike craft contingent carried by the vessel depends largely on the particular vessel's present mission. 

Though designed originally around a transwarp drive system, (approximately equivalent to a Class 1.8 Hyperdrive) some D'Deridex cruisers have been modified to include a Class .6 Hyperdrive capable of use within hyperspace lanes that still exist within the Romulan Empire and along the few hyperspace lanes that are known leading from Romulan Space to the Wintreath Remnant and the Galactic Core. 

D'Deridex class vessels also are armed with various (anywhere from 17-25) disruptor arrays (generally employed as anti-fighter weapons), 5 heavy disruptor arrays (two forward, two wing, one rear), 9 torpedo tubes, a quantum ballista, a shield inversion beam emitter, and a tractor beam emitter. 

All D'Deridex Battlecruisers employ cloaking devices, in accordance with the age-old Romulan Military Maxim, "If Knowledge is Power, then to be Unknown is to be Unconquerable."

The most recent iteration of the D'Deridex Battlecruiser, the D'Deridex-XII, also carries upgraded ablative shielding and increased reactor efficiency, though the thousands of vessels in Flight I are still generally incomplete (1533 operational of 9770 in Flight I)

Arx Class Assault Carrier

The most numerous landing carrier in the Romulan Fleet, the Arx class is exceedingly good at what it is designed to do—ensure the rapid deployment of Romulan Naval Invantry Legions while simultaneously minimising casualty rates.  To accomplish this goal, they are armed with various anti-artillery, anti-vehicle, and anti-fighter weapons that are not carried on most other Romulan ships, in particular, they carry 12 heavy missile batteries and mid-size railguns in addition to the far more ubiquitous point defence plasma disruptor arrays and quantum torpedoes found in use with most of the rest of the fleet to satisfy these goals.  TBC

Valdore Class Patrol Cruiser

The Valdore class patrol cruisers were developed in response to frequent territorial violations recently by minor civilisations at the boarders of the empire, and are extremely effective in their role.  A bit smaller and much more nimble than its cousin the D'Deridex, Valdore class vessels are approximately 650 meters long and carry a crew complement of 950 and a security contingent of 350 to board vessels illegally entering the empire.  Valdores are equipped with a class .6 hyperdrive, backup transwarp systems and a cloaking device.

Tavara Class Battlecruiser

After the introduction of the Valdore, the High Command of the Romulan Star Navy quickly realised the effectiveness of the nimble cruiser in combined fleet operations, and they requisitioned a much more heavily armed cousin that retained much of the Valdore's manoeuvrability.  Three years later, the Tavara-class Battlecruiser was born.  With the armament of a D'Deridex and nearly the speed of a Valdore, the Tavara is in many respects the most advanced vessel in the empire.  The Tavara class is approximately 725 meters in length, is crewed by 850, and carries contingents of Tal Shiar SpecOps Soldiers (50) and Naval Infantry (2 Brigades of 256).

Tavara-II Battlecruiser Modifications and Upgrades:  Shield and armour upgrades, moderate engine efficiency corrections, increased modernisation allowing for a crew reduction to 550, allowing for increased space for a third Naval Infantry Brigade and an expanded shuttle bay. 

Scimitar Class Battleship

The Scimitar Class is the heavy hitter of the Romulan Fleet, and packs the deadliest armament ever installed on a Romulan Warship, a Thalaron generator.  In addition to this nasty device, the 1.2 km long, 1.5 km wide battleship crewed by 2344 and capable of deploying an entire Legion (18432 Troopers) and support personnel in an invasion is bristling with traditional weapons: 78 disruptor banks, 45 torpedo tubes, and a huge hangar.  Scimitar Hangars contain at a minimum 512 Talon Interceptors and 1024 Scorpio Strike Bombers in addition to the support fleet necessary to deploy a Romulan Legion to the surface of an unsuspecting world.  The Scimitar Class has not been equipped with a cloaking device, as the Thalaron residual radiation interferes with the function of cloaking devices, making any attempt to create a ship with both a Thalaron generator and a cloaking device a hopeless cause, with even the best cloaking technology still glitching out and covering only part of the vessel in question part of the time, even with the smallest hints of Thalaron radiation aboard the vessel.

Falchion Subclass:  Sister class of the Scimitar-class battleships, the Falchion Subclass has the ability to cloak, as they carry no Thalaron generators.  The space generally allotted to the Thalaron generators has been converted into a backup shield generator independent of the main Falchion shield grid.

Allegiance Class Assault Cruiser

  At 1200 meters long and equipped with an impressive armament.  (Armament: 14 heavy quad-plasma disruptor cannons, 44 Dual Disruptor Cannons, 2 heavy ion cannons, 24 point-defence ion cannons, 102 torpedo tubes and 8 tractor beam projector arrays.)  The result of the Romulan Fleet's desire for a dedicated raiding vessel capable of long-term independent operations behind enemy lines to disrupt supply lines, the Allegiance Class is that vessel.  Crewed by 600 with the capability of storing four years of consumables for them onboard, the main power of these vessels is their other cargo—nearly 1.5 million battle droids along with their necessary equipment.  The Allegiance Class also is capable of cloaking for 160 hour intervals and has a class 1.5 hyperdrive with a backup warp-9.9 capable warp drive. 

Dominus Class Command Carrier

At 5.6 kilometers in length, the Dominus Class Command Carriers were easily the largest dedicated military vessels in the empire until the introduction of their even more ferocious cousins, the Praenuntius class.  Generally employed in fleet formations as the command headquarters for invasion forces, they are very vulnerable when isolated from the rest of their fleets.  They are crewed by 14330 Romulan Naval Personnel and are capable deploying six full legions and their legionary support contingents from their hangars.  They also carry a drastically varying array of strike and support craft. 

Tarpeia Class Dreadnought

  The only completely dedicated battleship of the Romulan Fleet is the Tarpeia class. (The Tarpeia-class is named for the Tarpeian Rock, the most recognisable name in the empire synonymous with death, as it is where all high-level traitors to the Romulan Empire are executed.)  At 2.5 kilometers in length and equipped with a triad of the most powerful redundant deflector shield grids in the empire, and in addition to two meter thick ablative deuranium/durasteel composite armour, the Tarpeia class has amassed a reputation as a merciless executor—never do Tarpeia class vessels respond to hails when they are assaulting an enemy planet. 

Standard "pacification" operations, as the Tal Shiar likes to call them, generally include the Tarpeia-class Dreadnought performing the operation opening up on a disloyal/enemy colony/planet/station/asteroid/city and decimating it (destroying 1/10 buildings, generally the most important defensive ones, but in the event that those buildings cannot add up to the 10% threshold, the commander of the Dreadnought will generally order the rest of the quota to be satisfied by targeting buildings at random).  After this decimation is complete, the Tarpeia launches three legions of troopers to the ground to round up and execute any persons found that are unwilling to submit to the rule of the Empire.  After this takes place, the operation is considered over and all personnel are given permission to return to the Tarpeia.  The fear of these operations keeps many neighbouring sectors in line with the Romulan way. 

Tarpeia-class Dreadnoughts are armed with 20 ion cannons, 8 heavy plasma pulse turbodisruptors, 10 heavy tractor beams, 68 heavy disruptor banks, 224 medium disruptor banks, 588 light disruptor arrays (anti-fighter) and 8 shield inversion beam emitters.  Tarpeias also have large hangar bays capable of hosting various ground vehicles in addition to 288 Gladius manned interceptors, 144 Javelin manned heavy strike bombers, ~50 ground vehicle transports, and 64 Dominia-class Shuttlecraft.  They also have two secondary hangar bays that are compact and filled entirely with drone craft (768 Talon Interceptors and 512 Scorpio Bombers total).

Praenuntius Class Heavy Assault Carrier

  The largest vessels in the Romulan fleet, and a quite recent addition to the Arsenal of Romulus, the 9.5 kilometre-long Praenuntius-class Heavy Assault Carriers are what you would expect them to be—loaded with hangars and aircraft, and bristling with defensive systems.  The class is crewed by 41,556 Romulan Naval Personnel and is capable of carrying 12 full Romulan Legions, including their support contingents, in their 36 modular hangars.  Praenuntiuses are heavily automated, but all systems are very capable of being controlled manually in the event of a catastrophic computer failure. 

Defensively, Praenuntius class vessels are equipped with redundant deflector and particle shields around all hangars, and there are additionally four ship-wide shield systems designed to alternate to minimise the risk of shield overload.  They are armed with 16 heavy tractor beams, 130 medium disruptor banks, 8 heavy pulse plasma turbodisruptors, 3756 anti-fighter disruptor arrays (heavily automated and coordinated by the ship computer), and 12 shield inversion beam emitters.  They also carry 2-10 metre thick reactive, ablative deuranium/durasteel composite armour, with the most heavily armour around the engines and the bridges. 

As expected, IRW Praenuntius and her sister ships carry a vast array of strike craft, and their loads are especially diverse because of their modular hangar design, which allows the quick replacement of entire sections of their arsenal.

Romulan Support Ships

As the old Romulan saying goes, "The deadliest part of war is not the battlefield, but the supply line."  To prevent Romulan forces from losing important strategic positions as a result of a loss of supplies, the Romulan Star Navy operates hundreds of resupply and repair vessels that vary drastically in size and role. 

Praebitor-class Light Logistics Cruiser

Crewed by 15 Romulan civilians and commanded by three commissioned Romulan Officers, supported by a contingent of 100 Battle Droids, the Praebitor-class is the most numerous support cruiser in the fleet.  They are capable of resupplying the average Task Force with three weeks of supplies, ammunition and fuel.  Most are not cloaked, to cut the costs of fleet maintenance, but when supply lines are at risk of being raided, they are retrofitted with cloaking devices. 

Portator-class Drone Logistics Cruiser

Going with the Romulan Star Navy trend of increased automation in order to field a larger fleet of starships at a lower cost, the Portator-class Drone Logistics Cruisers are medium, cloaking vessels crewed by dual Central Control Computers, which each oversee half of the approximately 530 droids on the ship.  They can supply a Task Force with two months of provisions.

Munitor-class Mobile Dry Dock

  One of the most unusual Romulan innovations, the Munitor-class Mobile Dry Docks are a feat of Romulan engineering and a testament to the ingenuity of the Strategic Engineering Corps.  Munitors are deployed to various strategic locations around the empire, and also deployed with foreign invasion fleets, to assure that any damages sustained by Imperial Warbirds are repaired quickly, efficiently, and effectively. 

Conserator-class Mobile Shipyard

  A design created for the sole purpose of rebuilding Romulan War Fleets after a theoretical major, devastating engagement  with an enemy force.  Though few have actually been constructed, supplies to create such shipyards have been requisitioned by the Star Navy and scattered in outlying systems and nebulae, mostly on asteroids and other small planetoids.  They require a crew of 150 to operate at full production capacity.

Picopraebitor-class Light Blockade Transport

  A light blockade runner designed to supplement more traditional supply routes, Picopraebitor transports are crewed by 8 Romulan officers and are capable of resupplying nearly all Romulan forces, albeit in a much more expensive way than more conventional resupply vessels.  They carry small onboard cloaks, class .6 hyperdrives, and backup warp drives.

Castra-class Forward Mobile Base

  A less costly option for long-term amphibious command operations, the Castra-class Forward Mobile Bases are fully contained hybrid space stations/assault carriers, and are far cheaper to operate than either.  They are crewed by 380 minimally but are capable of supporting a legion of Romulan troops in a long-term mission.  They are not very manoeuvrable and most protection they are afforded is in the form of 16 computer-controlled antifighter disruptors and two landing bays equipped with gunships, runabouts and manned fighters.

Arx-class Theatre Command Station

  A very heavily armoured station, almost rivalling Romulan Starbases in their size and firepower, they do however sacrifice a large percentage of their internal space for engine systems on account of their titanic size, and consequently do not have nearly the civilian trade facilities of most Romulan Starbases, and in fact have no civilian shipyards themselves.  The Arx is truly a force to be reckoned with, allowing the Romulan military to fortify sectors deemed vital in a fraction of the time necessary to construct a permanent station at the post.  Arx-class vessels carry a class 3.7 hyperdrive and backup class 9 hyperdrives.  Weaponry and other internals are almost identical to those of traditional Romulan Starbases.  (They're a modified Starbase design, really.)

Starbases

  Romulan Starbases, as they are called, are heavily defended centres of construction, training, commerce and communications throughout the empire.  They generally include sheltered starship construction facilities, advanced hospitals capable of treating huge numbers of wounded personnel, large civilian tradeports, civilian shipyards, housing, legion training centres (generally just a staging area, with war games taking place on nearby moons and asteroids), communications hubs, Tal Shiar listening posts, and War Theatre Command Centres.  They are normally populated by millions of civilian inhabitants of the Romulan Empire, and 10 legions are tasked with the defence of each Starbase. 

Defensively, the outer physical shell of the bases have five entrances leading to the main, unarmoured interior where most of the Starbase activity is carried out.  These entrances are each defended by banks of turbodisruptors, torpedo tubes, drone fighter bays, and anti-fighter railgun batteries.  The outer hull is composed of ablative deuranium/durasteel alloy armour approximately 9.5 meters thick, and shielded by six of the most powerful overlapping deflector shield grids that the Romulan Empire may produce.  However, because of the great cost of building these monuments to imperial power and majesty, they are rarely constructed close to the borders of the empire, and generally only exist in locations deemed vital to Imperial Defence Command or deep within the Romulan Empire's population centres. 

Military Command Structure

The Supreme Commander of the Romulan Military is officially the Emperor.  However, the Emperor rarely directly commands the military forces of the empire personally these days, as the Imperial Office is generally forced to focus on internal affairs, such as economic security and logistical problems within the Romulan Star Empire. 

Because of the huge number of duties given to the Emperor, the Imperial Consul of War is charged with leading the Romulan Military in the Emperor's stead.  The Consul of War then appoints the Council of War from members of the military meritocracy (generally Star Navy Admirals, Tal Shiar Colonels and Legion Legates of the Romulan Army).  The Council of War then serves as the command board of the Consul of War, and determines Romulan military strategy and practices. 

ROMULAN STAR NAVY

The highest rank within the Romulan Star Navy is that of Fleet Praetor, who commands one of the five primary Romulan Imperial Fleets.  Each of these fleets is then divided into five Sector Fleets, which are commanded by an Admiral.  Each Sector Fleet is divided into four to ten sub-fleets called Battle Fleets.  Battle Fleets are led by Vice Admirals, and divided into varying numbers of Task Forces commanded by a Rear Admiral, which include a varying number of starships, generally given to a Commander.  The intraship rank system for commissioned officers is as follows:  Commander, Subcommander, Centurion, Lieutenant, Sublieutenant and Ensignant. 

TAL SHIAR

The Tal Shiar is the Romulan Intelligence Service, and is without a doubt the most brutal and unforgiving organisation in the empire.  The Tal Shiar maintains hundreds, if not thousands, of listening posts in (and outside of) Romulan Space, listening not only to foreign governments, but to imperial citizens as well.  They are tasked with maintaining and ensuring loyalty to the Emperor and the Senate, and will stop and nothing to achieve their goals.  They have practically limitless jurisdiction within the Empire, and often just the threat of turning a captured prisoner over to the Tal Shiar will make them confess.  Their ranking system is as follows:  General, Colonel, Captain, Major, Lieutenant, Sublieutenant, Polisium, Subpolisium, Inspector, Subversive, Informant, Recruit. 

Tal Shiar Divisions

The Tal Shiar contains various subdivisions including the following:

• Division of Counter-Espionage
• Imperial Loyalty Command
• Economic Security Division
• Information Department
• Special Weapons Bureau
• Information Warfare Division
• Romulan Imperial Guard Service
• TBC

ROMULAN ARMY

The Romulan Army is the ground component of the Romulan Military, and is generally very effective at conducting efficient operations with very little notice or support.  They are additionally deployed to defend and patrol the cities and worlds of the empire, under Tal Shiar commanders.  The Army ranking system is as follows:  Imperial Legate, Legion Legate, Legate, Sublegate, Prefect, Full Centurion, Centurion, Subcenturion.

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Anyone else notice how my troops, ground vehicles, and military supplies are all carried by the second smallest ships in my fleet?

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Nation: New Witchmond

History

Witchmond was a nation on the Wintreath's main planet. As the fall of the Wintrean galaxy, Witchians set out to claim their own lands. They created the capital city of Gypite[Guy-Pie-De] on the planet of Toobek.

Government

The New Witchian government is like the original government of Witchmond. They have some civil rights and political freedom, and a strong economy. The only difference is that for the many years, New Witchmond will have a heir family that will be ruling the Empire until have they can trust every race living in New Witchmond and once trusted, they will become a republic.

Military

New Witchmond focuses a lot of their budget on defense, making sure that no space pirates or other empires take over. They also have access to both nuclear and anti-matter bombs. Their military spans from:

Space Ships

Fighters

Scouts

They have also invented plasma shields, the shields can block a hit from a majorly powerful weapon. Weaker weapons barely damage the shield while after 10-20 strikes from a stronger weapons will destroy it.

Plasma Shield Sketch

Their infantries have power suits, which can withstand explosions, and many types of bullets. They also have laser based guns.

Infantry

They have walkers, a siege unit, which has a laser turret on top and two railguns in the front.

Walkers

Lastly, they are under the works of a plasma beam.

Races

65% Human (Elmian)
16% Native Glacian (A life form on New Witchmond's second largest planet, Glacia)
9% Poltaic (Ancient empire remains)
8% Human (Winter Nomadian)
1% Other

Current Leader

Ben Danation, great great great great great grandson of Ras Danation, second in command is Al Ser.

@Rasdanation did you accidentally quote instead of edit?

I meant to change my factbook a bit but accedentally quoted it XD. So here is an inspirational quote to fill it over.

Curiosity killed the cat

@Rasdanation did you accidentally quote instead of edit?

Yes, dang IPhones

@Rasdanation did you accidentally quote instead of edit?

Yes, dang IPhones

Dude, Android. Your kool-aid cannot be that good anymore.

@Rasdanation did you accidentally quote instead of edit?

Yes, dang IPhones

Dude, Android. Your kool-aid cannot be that good anymore.

I'm usually on my computer when I post.

@Rasdanation did you accidentally quote instead of edit?

Yes, dang IPhones

Dude, Android. Your kool-aid cannot be that good anymore.

I'm usually on my computer when I post.

Mac, Windows, or Linux?

Commodore 64

@Rasdanation did you accidentally quote instead of edit?

Yes, dang IPhones

Dude, Android. Your kool-aid cannot be that good anymore.

I'm usually on my computer when I post.

Mac, Windows, or Linux?

Windows, I'm not that fond of Macs and I never actually used Linux before

@BraveSirRobin: Remember that transwarp drives do not exist in this RP.