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Legacy of Romulus: Playable Species
daroska
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Hey there, friends!
Just thought I'd stop in to discuss the potential for future playable species within the Romulan Republic
faction coming to us, May 21st 2013. Most of us would already know that we'll be able to play as Remans
and Romulans, but what else? It looks like a rather short list for a fully fledged faction. So feel free to give me
your ideas and reasons for potential playable species we'll see in the coming days of release or afterwards.
I'll list the most viable ones below as them come in, so we can get some measure of order going on here.
So lets start this list:
Just thought I'd stop in to discuss the potential for future playable species within the Romulan Republic
faction coming to us, May 21st 2013. Most of us would already know that we'll be able to play as Remans
and Romulans, but what else? It looks like a rather short list for a fully fledged faction. So feel free to give me
your ideas and reasons for potential playable species we'll see in the coming days of release or afterwards.
I'll list the most viable ones below as them come in, so we can get some measure of order going on here.
So lets start this list:
- Romulan - CONFIRMED
- Reman - CONFIRMED
- Joined Trill - Both the KDF and FED were given this payment option.
- Liberated Borg - Both the KDF and FED were given this payment option.
- Hirogen - Known allies of Romulans in exchange for hunting grounds within it's space.
- Benzite - Benzar was under Romulan 'protection' in the dominion war, some may still be thankful.
- Vulcan - Have worked to unify their cousins, the Romulan people, with their own.
- Klingon - There was a colony of Klingons peaceful with Romulan control on Carraya IV.
- Corvallen - Their location is near Romulan holdings and sometimes are hired by them.
- Yridian - They have a 'Romulan' mindset and have worked in the RSE's territories.
- Ktarian - Aesthetically fitting with the Romulans and hold dissidents in their ranks.
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I was thinking about checking their subject worlds to see if any species other than romulans
live there, I mean, surely such subjects would rise up in conjuction to build a new republic?
Would be helpful for others to participate in this research, no? help explore possibilities? hm?
UMM...what?
The Aenar were not slaves, they were isolationists.
Did you actually watch the Enterprise episodes were they appeared?
I'm almost certain Cryptic will have in Joined Trill and Liberated Borg Romulans be playable.
Heres another for the list. A Romulan Cat. Feds have Caitains, Klingons have Ferasans, so what kind of cat do Romulans get?
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That should be obvious:
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/34104049.jpg
I guess you missed the parts where the Romulans used Aenar captives to remotely pilot their drone warships. Being forced into service by another power pretty squarely fits the definition of slave, no?
We do not know that, nor is that confirmed. We do know that the Romulan Star Empire consists of many subject species that are not reman nor romulan, as depicted in original Star Trek lore.
The subject is to discuss the possibility of these (or other) new species being included or aligned with the romulan republic (excuse the slight of hand in the original post, I actually meant to put 'romulan republic' instead of 'romulan empire').
These would be hypothetically be playable within the under populated (as of right now in playable species selection) romulan republic.
The ferasans are technically augmented caitians, are they not? why not an offshoot of this genetic experimentation? a prototype, as it were? or does that seem too strange?
They took ONE Aenar, Gareb.
And he died at the end of te episode.
He was shot by the Romulan Admiral.
What did I miss?
Anything definitely saying he was the only one ever taken?
As I said from the start, it is a bit of a stretch. The Aenar population was never all that large, and as such any transplanted captive population wouldn't have been massive. But Cryptic has used shakier justifications for including things.
Yes, the Aenar said they have only one person missing.
It was also the important point of the episode: the Romulans only had one pilot they could not replace.
So there's no "polulation" whatsoever.
Even if we are playing dissidents (which the info suggests), doesn't mean we will be part of the New Romulus faction. If they could field enough ships to make a playable faction, they wouldn't need help from the Feds and KDF.
If we assume we will be playing an emergent faction in what's left of the old Romulan Empire, then it's not impossible that Hirogen (or at least some of them) would support it. Sela and the Tal'Shiar both dislike what they cannot control; and I'd like to see anyone try to keep the Hunters under their thumb. The Hirogen could easily be getting tired of people trying to order them around by now.
What part of "ever" is lost on you? The Romulans took one, there was absolutely nothing preventing them from taking others after the fact.
Bottom line: Aenar were shown in a role related to the RSE. OP was asking about species potentially linked to RSE by canon information. It's entirely plausible that a reasonable (albeit unlikely) situation could be concocted to support making the Aenar a playable RSR member species.
And as I said, Cryptic has used much, much shakier lore to justify things that occur in STO (like KDF joined trill).
Except the fact that the Andorians were now aware of the Romulan project and would thus be the dumbest idiots in the universe if they allowed anyone from that point on to obduct any further Aenar.
This was as much a unique situation as Kirk using a Klingon Bird of Prey in Star Trek 4, which was not used as a justification to give the Federation a Bird of Prey either.
As I've now said three times...a stretch, but by no means impossible.
Somebody's forgetting about the Defiant I see.
Maybe Yridians, though I don't know who wants to play as a rat man except for laughs.
We know so little about Romulan space they actually are pretty open to make some stuff up. Could be interesting.
Yeah, there was. The Aenar said so themselves.
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I'm sorry, how large is the Aenar population? Unless it's less than 50, then how would they know? Did they take a census? Do you know how many people where you live could be abducted without you knowing?
The benzites were liberated by the romulan star empire in the dominion war.
But Odo believed they wouldn't relinquish the planet's control by the end of the skirmishes.
As well, Carraya IV's klingons were known to have been in peace with their hosts.
So they both could be potential 'borrowed' species for the Romulan Republic.
I might not know about abductions in my area, but I somehow think the police would be fairly well informed....
Same could be said about Aenar BOFFs.;)
The Romulan cats will be known as Furrians and will be the species that Cat lady we saw on Nimbus III in Star Trek 5.
Which aren't playable.
But in any case like I said, Aenar wouln't be any more ridiculous than KDF Joined Trills.
That being said, apparently the devs decided to make the romulan faction to be all about freedom fighters and liberty, so I wouldn't be suprised (but would be disappointed) if they have a half dozen species to choose from, (except Hirogen, hilariously enough, since they are allied with Sela and also with the Tal'Shiar) and we end up with Warbirds captained by Ferengi or something similarly ridiculous.
Yup, agreed. I think it would be cool if the devs introduced a RSE, Aenar subplot along with unlocking them as a playable race.