The first thing you want to do for your Romulan game is to download Jester’s Romulan species profile for all your players use. Image © Cryptic Studios Romulan Characters Their secret police and intelligence bureau, the Tal Shiar, is really good at its job and they much prefer slipping a knife into your back than charging at your front. The Tal Shiar: The Romulans are definitely obsessed with military, but they are very different from groups like the Cardassians or Klingons.
It stresses obedience, duty, and family strength. D’era : This is the Romulans’ cultural philosophy, the counterpart to the Vulcan Kolinahr.The executive branch is the Praetor who typically wields immense power. Government: The Romulans are ruled by a Senate made up of elected officials who are either former military or future military.At the time of Star Trek Adventures, they have stayed out of all military concerns with the Dominion but might yet ally with the Federation against them. They allied with the Klingons and then went back to isolation broken when the Enterprise-D (shocker) made contact with the bigger, deadlier Romulan fleet. They maintained a long isolation, broken only when the original Enterprise made contact and realized that the mysterious Romulans were related to the Vulcans. Conflict: The Romulans have gone through long periods of self-imposed isolation, establishing Neutral Zones that they enforce with deadly effect.Not everyone agreed they should control these emotions and some of them left, becoming the Romulans. Great teachers came forward to spread philosophies of self-control and mastery of emotion. Origins: The Romulans used to be Vulcans, long ago when the Vulcan people were warlike and filled with rage.If you’re feeling really out to sea, here’s a brief overview of Star Trek‘s Romulans. So… That’s where you should go for some background info. If you can get your hands on previous game’s books, A Fragile Peace details the Romulan Neutral Zone and outlines a campaign there while The Way of D’era is the definitive guide to roleplaying as a Romulan. No doubt we’ll have information on the Romulans in the upcoming Beta Quadrant Sourcebook, and there’s information at Memory Alpha and Memory Beta that you can pull from, not to mention a Romulan faction in Star Trek Online.
I just don’t have the space and it’s already been covered in many other places. Let’s just get this out of the way: this article is not going to give you everything you need to play Romulans. Today were profiling everyone’s favorite xenophobes: the Romulans. We’re back today with another set of options to expand your campaign.