The State of the Romulan Diaspora

Posted on Mon Jan 12th, 2026 @ 1:13pm by Lieutenant Commander N'Tgni Creon
Edited on on Thu Jan 15th, 2026 @ 11:18am

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Mission: UnderMind [4]
Timeline: Stardate 79784.59

THE STATE OF THE ROMULAN DIASPORA
STARFLEET INTELLIGENCE REPORT
PREPARED BY: LCMDR N’Tgni Creon, DS13
PREPARED FOR: Regional Director Futtle, Starfleet Intelligence

HOBUS

As of 12:48am Paris time, 3 November 2388, the Romulan Star Empire’s official position was that the predicted Hobus hypernova was ‘alarmist Federation propaganda’, and there was no threat to the Romulan Empire. Within three hours, the Hobus nova had annihilated fifteen worlds and a hundred starships. By day’s end it would reach the Capitol.

Despite launching their fastest ship armed with the most advanced response they could rush with Ambassador Spock at the helm, the onslaught of the cataclysm could not be stopped in time by Starfleet, and Romulus was destroyed, as were many other worlds.

90 percent of the senate was unaccounted for, three quarters were declared dead by the Imperial High Command. The Praetor was found several days later floating in the void of deep space, the Teral’n of Office gone. Anarchy beset the Empire as the surviving senate refused to meet without the symbolic staff-weapon.

THE IMPERIAL COLLAPSE

After several days of silence from the usual command channels, local commanders and prestigious houses consolidated their power in border skirmishes and wide-reaching raids. Hundreds of thousands died in the first few weeks as systems failed and societies collapsed.

The Great Houses formed a council after heavy losses from internecine warfare in mid-2389, and for more than a year there was peace, as negotiations began to reunite the Empire. When systems began to independently elect new senators, the combined elected leadership agreed on a Romulan Free State to replace the fallen Empire.

After the approved new government structure proposed to put the navy directly under the command of the Senate, many in the military refused the authority of the Free State and broke away to form independent imperialist factions in the northern Imperial provinces. Six months of war follow to define the borders. The Tal Shiar give their support to the Free State unexpectedly, under the command of the mysterious General Nedar.

With a majority of the Romulan territory and population, the Free State declares a neutral zone between its territory and the loose confederation of opposing factions known as the Imperialists. The Imperialists however retain the majority of vessels and military personnel.

A FREE STATE

After brief but significant border skirmishes in 2392 with the Klingon Empire, and a number of secessions to the Federation along the border, the Free State shrinks at the eastern edges, but also uses the opportunity to seize areas of Pakled space. Once a neutrality treaty is signed with the Klingons in 2394, Free State borders have not shrunk further as of current stardate.

General Nedar’s revelation as the Starfleet Commodore Oh in 2399 caused significant diplomatic disruption between the Free State and the Federation, but after almost six months of silence, the tensions were resolved by newly elected President Chekov in a state visit to Valentus. Following the revelation, Nedar and her Tal Shiar forces fled into Imperialist Space, where they were accepted warmly, but within a few weeks of her appointment as Chair of the Imperial Tal Shiar, she disappeared and was replaced.

The Free State provided significant frontline support after the First Contact Day infiltration attack on Earth in 2401, and in 2402 the surrender of the Dreizhen system to the Federation, despite its distance, was seen as a significant step in relations.

Despite the diplomatic successes with the Federation, the Free State remains officially neutral with the Klingon Empire, with whom they briefly warred.

Even after the loss of the Tal Shiar Fleet, they still remain the fifth most significant power in the Beta Quadrant, thanks largely to their industrial-scale salvage of Borg technology. Treaties require them to turn over all the more dangerous pieces, and mostly they do.

THE SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ROMULUS

Consul Tal’aura remains the perennial favorite to lead the Free State, she has won the last three elections convincingly. She is an aggressive populist, but her support from the progressives in Senator D’Tan’s Unification caucus give her broad support in passing laws.

The senate is made up of representatives from 128 sectors and subsectors, the majority of which represent only a single star system. Headquartered on the venerable colony world of Valentus, the Free State remains the closest thing to a unified Romulan authority, with almost 75% of the total territory remaining under the Romulan banner.

Despite the apparent revolution that took place, in the light of such loss, there was no celebration from the Romulan people of their newfound freedom. The price had been too high.

The Romulan Star Navy has slowly rebuilt itself as a sleeker more spartan force, much of it no longer reliant on singularity-core propulsion. Fleet Admirals Donatra, Mendak and Vyron form a command Triad that has kept Imperial borders secure for more than a decade.

While there were isolated and unconfirmed reports of Reman raids in the early weeks of the disaster, The Free State declared the emancipation of all enslaved beings in 2391. This led to an unofficial peace with the surviving Remans, who began to turn their aggression towards the remaining Imperialists, most of whom kept their slaves. Many too sent hunting parties seeking free Remans. Oddly, the Remans paused this continued aggression to establish trade relations with the Imperialists shortly after the war in 2398, in a move that continues to baffle observers.

GALACTIC POWER

The Free State assisted the Ferengi side during the One-Week War in 2398, as much to show their neighbours the scale of their new navy as to take an opportunity to strike against the Imperialists without jeopardising their borders.

Despite the long disadvantage, the Free State has almost reached military parity with the Imperialists when considered as a single bloc. Estimates say they will surpass them in early 2403.

The recent announcement of Reman Imperium borders to the Galactic community and their signature of Galactic Treaty would seem a potential obstacle for the Free State given the Imperium’s position in the largest area of unoccupied space outside their own, but they maintain close relations between their governments. The Imperialists too have unexpectedly close and warm relations as trade partners with the Reman Imperium, despite many Remans and others still being enslaved in the name of the Empire.

AUTHOR’S SPECULATION

The Empire is ended. Without massive bloodshed, the Imperialists can only hold their possessions and expand corewards as far as Son'a space, but their legions need foes to keep internal runctions from flaring up, they do not have a sustainable economy while they endlessly patrol neutral zones and establish colonies on unclaimed worlds. Current projections see it as unable to last beyond 2410, particularly if the Son'a continue with recent aggressive trends.

If the Free State can hold itself together that long, they may simply be the last Romulans standing.

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