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The Romulan Supernova: The final, canon word
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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"You lied!" - "I exaggerated."
They knew about the supernova about 5 years before it happened, then evacuated several planets for 4 years before the attack on Mars. So it took 4 years to build the first wave of new rescue ships, or it took Picard years to convince Starfleet to build them.
If all stars in the Klingon Empire are Klingon stars, any star in the Romulan Empire can be a Romulan star.
They knew about the supernova about 5 years before it happened, then evacuated several planets for 4 years before the attack on Mars. So it took 4 years to build the first wave of new rescue ships, or it took Picard years to convince Starfleet to build them.
If all stars in the Klingon Empire are Klingon stars, any star in the Romulan Empire can be a Romulan star.
Minus the constant shouting and smiling at singing plants.
A supernova doesn't just destroy it's own star system
Depending on its size it will take out nearby star systems aswell, though less in the form of giant explosion and more gamma burst that would sterilise the nearby systems of all life. Potentially there could be effects up to 50 ly away.
However gamma Ray's move at speed of light so if a star goes bang 5 light years away, then it will take 5 years for the destruction to reach you.
Which makes me think the star that went nova was 4 or more light years from romulus and in the center of its core worlds and colonies.
The 4 years of evacuation preparation they talk of was the time after the star went bang but before the blast hit romulus and the surrounding colony's.
As for what made it go bang? Some trilithium device is my bet. Who would do it?
Section 31
Klingons
Dominion
Breen
Cardasians
Remans
Vulcans
A bored Q
Other romulans
Take your pick, the romulans were not exactly short of enemy's.
Depending on its size it will take out nearby star systems aswell, though less in the form of giant explosion and more gamma burst that would sterilise the nearby systems of all life. Potentially there could be effects up to 50 ly away.
However gamma Ray's move at speed of light so if a star goes bang 5 light years away, then it will take 5 years for the destruction to reach you.
Which makes me think the star that went nova was 4 or more light years from romulus and in the center of its core worlds and colonies.
The 4 years of evacuation preparation they talk of was the time after the star went bang but before the blast hit romulus and the surrounding colony's.
As for what made it go bang? Some trilithium device is my bet. Who would do it?
Section 31
Klingons
Dominion
Breen
Cardasians
Remans
Vulcans
A bored Q
Other romulans
Take your pick, the romulans were not exactly short of enemy's.
Just toss Star Trek Online a bone and say the Iconians did it. Less for them to change in their game.
No, which is odd. You'd think that would come up.
Well we had a bit of that in 2019.
Nero was a cardboard villain. He did what he did because his family died. I don't think he cared as much about Romulus itself. He wasn't developed enough as a character to get into his psyche so it's better to just take him for what he was in the film. A raving lunatic.
Do you think that the synths were manipulated by someone? Or are they just Bad Robots? ( ;-) )
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I could do the whole "Really? That's where you draw the line?" argument here, but it's pointless.
The line is literally wherever you choose to draw it.
For me, It's not even remotely at a supposedly unrealistic supernova.
Going back in time on a whim to kidnap humpback whales to prevent an alien dildo that communicates in gibberish from destroying the planet might've been that very line. Yet here I am.
Ha, ha. Seriously though, I think someone made the Synths did this to harm the efforts to help the Romulans.
Planetary defence shields should be able to cope with a few gamma rays, especially with 5 years to shore them up.
Well in this case they clearly didn't.
Unless your go by Jar Jar Abrams exact version of events;
Coping with a few gamma rays is very different to having your home star explode ala veridian 3. Nobody seems concerned with traditional effects of supernovas outside their host system in Trek
On the other hand, we know supernovas have subspace effects - one such event affected the home computer on Bynar, but again nobody was concerned with needing to evacuating the planet.
On the other hand, we know supernovas have subspace effects - one such event affected the home computer on Bynar, but again nobody was concerned with needing to evacuating the planet.
A supernova can't destroy a galaxy...unless this red-matter enhanced one's FTL shockwave were to trigger other supernovae, including that of Romulus's sun, which could be interpreted as galacticaly bad for the sociopolitical situation in our corner of the galaxy?
That's how I was interpreting it anyway. I'm okay with Hobus being retconned as Romulus's sun, or the star in question being Romulus's and doing away with Hobus all together...if it would simplify some of this.
It wasn't only a gamma ray burst from a neighboring Hobus that made Romulus uninhabitable because we saw Romulus being hit by a supernova shockwave in ST'09.
The only thing not on the table for discussion is that a single (non-magically-FTL) supernova could destroy the galaxy.
That's how I was interpreting it anyway. I'm okay with Hobus being retconned as Romulus's sun, or the star in question being Romulus's and doing away with Hobus all together...if it would simplify some of this.
It wasn't only a gamma ray burst from a neighboring Hobus that made Romulus uninhabitable because we saw Romulus being hit by a supernova shockwave in ST'09.
The only thing not on the table for discussion is that a single (non-magically-FTL) supernova could destroy the galaxy.
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