Star Trek: Dawn Of The Commonwealth Of Empires

[Training]

I'd have to disagree with you there. Not just Romulus is gone but as I already mentioned a lot of other major colonies. The Hobus supernova was devastating to far more than just the Romulus system.

Hobus? I take it your expanding on storyline from Trek Books. Then we probably are on different sides.

The Empire was pretty much run from Romulus and the Military run under the command of the senate and praetor which was, you guessed it, on Romulus.
With Romulus gone and no Empire running government to speak of what will happen to the Empire? It will fall into chaos, who is in charge? who will command the military? Will certain factions of the Empire and factions of the Military vie for control?

The Empire might have fallen into chaos in the books but since I don't bother reading the books. I just use logic and real world examples. The Romulan Empire is a centralist empire run from Romulus. Now why would most or atleast half of the Romulan armed forces be in Romulus? That's the most peaceful part of the empire and it endangers the government from military coup. There is a large empire that needs to be patrolled,protected and exapanded. None of that can happen if most of the forces are in the Main Planet.

When I think about the Romulan Empire the way I see it is you have Romulus at it's heart with the earliest colonies near Romulus with the larger populations and larger industry and ship building. Any colonies beyond that which escaped the nova would be smaller, more focused on resource mining and many of the planet on the Empires outskirts would likely be subjugated worlds with non Romulan populations which would, in the event of Empire collapse fight for independence.

Personally I see it has a Space version of Rome. You have Romulus or Rome which is the capital but doesn't produce much of anything significant. Then you have regional specifications. One region in the empire mainly produces certain products while other region produces a different product. Kind of a big country. West Virginia provides Oil. Ohio provides crops and California provides computer technology. It wouldn't make sense to expand a nation or an empire especially an empire if there was no financial motive behind it.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I have never even read a Trek book or novel. The Hobus star that destroys Romulus is from Star Trek XI.

Everything I've discussed in this thread is my own personal view of what would likely happen and how the Romulan Empire might function normally and function after a crisis.

I agree that Romulus might not produce much of anything but the earliest and most developed nearby colonies IMO would be the ship building and manufacturing centres. It makes sense to keep the heavy industry near the homeworld and deep inside Romulan space in order to protect it. The further out you go the more chance you can lose systems and since the outer colonies would be newest they'd be smaller with less population and development and such colonies I'd expect to be the labourers mining and gathering resources.

With Romulus and the central more powerful colonies gone there isn't much else keeping the Empire together and sustaining or controlling the military. The Military already went rogue during Shinzons time, what's it going to do when the Romulan Government, senate, Fleet commanders and praetor are gone?

To kill a snake you chop off it's head, well the Romulan snake head is well and truly off.

 

[Training]

I have never even read a Trek book or novel. The Hobus star that destroys Romulus is from Star Trek XI.

According to Memory Alpha Hobus is the name from a comic. I also don't remember it being mentioned by name in the film.

Everything I've discussed in this thread is my own personal view of what would likely happen and how the Romulan Empire might function normally and function after a crisis.

Which makes sense since it's your idea.

I agree that Romulus might not produce much of anything but the earliest and most developed nearby colonies IMO would be the ship building and manufacturing centres. It makes sense to keep the heavy industry near the homeworld and deep inside Romulan space in order to protect it. The further out you go the more chance you can lose systems and since the outer colonies would be newest they'd be smaller with less population and development and such colonies I'd expect to be the labourers mining and gathering resources.

Yeah but only one system was destroyed. Which would mean the inner colonies survived.

With Romulus and the central more powerful colonies gone there isn't much else keeping the Empire together and sustaining or controlling the military. The Military already went rogue during Shinzons time, what's it going to do when the Romulan Government, senate, Fleet commanders and praetor are gone?

To kill a snake you chop off it's head, well the Romulan snake head is well and truly off.

Wouldn't they be powerful enough to takeover? Has you mentioned in your first post. They Romulans have to defend their empire from invasions and they also take part in the expansion. Which means the majority of the Military and it's leadership are outside of Romulus.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I really think you're confusing the books with my own personal ideas for the series.

For example you posted in your last post that Romulus was the only system destroyed and the inner colonies survived. I'm sure that's true in the books but that's not what I've said. I clearly stated that not just Romulus was destroyed but many of the nearby major colonies.

The name of the star that destroyed Romulus was mentioned in the comics strip that came out just prior to the new film and was meant to give a back story to the film. The fact remains that a star goes supernova and destroys Romulus (on screen film canon). It makes sense to simply use the name used in the comic strip in order to evade confusion.

 

[FordSVT]

The title is far too long. Star Trek: Empire would be better.

Is this series from the Romulan POV or from a Federation POV via some kind of ambassador to the Romulan people like Sisko was to the Bajorans? I can tell you which one would have a greater chance of being made.

What you've done is built a framework, but there is no story or character or drama here at the moment.

 

[Scout101]

Going through what he said, looks like he ended up saying it was a standard 1-ship exploration scenario, but dealing with the socio-political backdrop as well.

Still haven't seen where it really offers anything new, other than different names for the bad guys, and different combination of forehead ridges. The background component works well enough, but like you said, no drama, it's missing the THING that is supposed to draw you in and become the focal point of the show.