We know the Romulans share names, hierarchies, and structures with Ancient Rome—Senate, Praetors, Centurions. Canon dismisses it all as narrative convention. But what if I wanted to take a more serious approach to canon?
What if pre-Surak Vulcans had studied Earth around the 1st century AD, long before Carbon Creek, and that data ended up aboard the Diaspora ship?
Perhaps during a generational journey lasting centuries, with engines failing, overcrowding impairing telepathy, water consumption reduced to a minimum, organic waste continually recycled, and systems being corrupted one by one, that report on Rome would become the only legible model of social order left.
The Romulans weren't "born" this way. They survived by clinging to a civilization their ancestors had studied centuries before, forgetting Vulcan, forgetting themselves, and becoming something entirely new.
Does it hold up canonically? What do you think?
PS. I'm not a native English speaker, so I rely on translators to help me understand as best I can.
What if pre-Surak Vulcans had studied Earth around the 1st century AD, long before Carbon Creek, and that data ended up aboard the Diaspora ship?
Perhaps during a generational journey lasting centuries, with engines failing, overcrowding impairing telepathy, water consumption reduced to a minimum, organic waste continually recycled, and systems being corrupted one by one, that report on Rome would become the only legible model of social order left.
The Romulans weren't "born" this way. They survived by clinging to a civilization their ancestors had studied centuries before, forgetting Vulcan, forgetting themselves, and becoming something entirely new.
Does it hold up canonically? What do you think?
PS. I'm not a native English speaker, so I rely on translators to help me understand as best I can.
