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How is the Romulan species surviving!?

azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
edited March 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I was just looking at my accolades, and I realized that I have personally killed over 1000 Romulans, and destroyed at least 200 of their ships. Assuming that their average ship has at least 100 people aboard, that means I've killed at a minimum, 21000 Romulans myself.

There are over 2 millions captains in STO right now. Assuming that at least 10% of them have killed as many Romulans as I have, that's 4.2 Billion dead Romulans.

This is all coming about one generation after the destruction of their homeworld. How is this species surviving!?

:P :D
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  • zipagatzipagat Member Posts: 1,204 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Same for the Cardassians really, how can so many of them be into the whole true way thing when they are still recovering from massive losses in the Dominion war as well as the Dominion devastating Cardassia because of the uprising towards the end of the war.
  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    azniadeet wrote: »
    There are over 2 millions captains in STO right now.

    Incredibly misleading number is misleading.
  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    stirling191 wrote: »
    Incredibly misleading number is misleading.

    It's just a joke.
  • daedalus304daedalus304 Member Posts: 1,049 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    in the world of STO we have what is called a Modified Jem'Hadar Hatchery, each Hatchery makes 1000 of any species designated, and with the ability to salvage and reconstruct the ships you kill they are near endless.
  • chalpenchalpen Member Posts: 2,207 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I have killed billions of humans. One of my characters I have been playing since release pvp'd for years as well all the regular pve content.
    IMHO I have done more damage than a q could have done
    Should I start posting again after all this time?
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    This game seems to fixate around the chosen one policy for MMOs. Where the number of "chosen ones" are limited in this game as far as story goes. We are handed a starship in the tutorial when we were just ensigns so it falls back to the chosen one status that Kirk had. If this game had a logical progression, then we would be stuck in the same ship and working under the same character for 30 levels before we would be promoted to Captain and finally get a ship of our own. The whole Vice Admiral rank screams Chosen One. Obviously, there can't be more Vice Admirals, then Captains so as far as the game is concerned, there are only a few Vice Admirals not thousands. So while millions of Romulans might be killed, as far as the STO universe is concerned, it is a much smaller number.
  • monshmonsh Member Posts: 114 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    azniadeet wrote: »
    ... How is this species surviving!?

    Well, when a mommy Romulan and a Daddy Romulan really love each other...

    But seriously, population has to be in the billions. Futhermore, there are several known planets that were Romulan colonies. Genocide would be a near-impossibility on a galactic scale, particularly for a civilization of this size. Don't forget...just because you destroyed the ship it doesn't mean that some of them didn't get away in escape pods - Romulans are sneaky that way!
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  • erockererocker Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    How is any space faring species surviving? Every day I see countless Federation ships getting blown into nothingness with anywhere from 150 to 1000 people on board.

    I guess it's because it's a video game.
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  • zulisvelzulisvel Member Posts: 518 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    The Iconians secretly infused Tribble DNA into the Romulans.
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    starkaos wrote: »
    This game seems to fixate around the chosen one policy for MMOs. Where the number of "chosen ones" are limited in this game as far as story goes. We are handed a starship in the tutorial when we were just ensigns so it falls back to the chosen one status that Kirk had. If this game had a logical progression, then we would be stuck in the same ship and working under the same character for 30 levels before we would be promoted to Captain and finally get a ship of our own. The whole Vice Admiral rank screams Chosen One. Obviously, there can't be more Vice Admirals, then Captains so as far as the game is concerned, there are only a few Vice Admirals not thousands. So while millions of Romulans might be killed, as far as the STO universe is concerned, it is a much smaller number.

    The number of chosen ones isn't just limited, it's pretty much explicitly just one.

    Every one of those two million captains is in command the *only* ship that was in range to rescue the SS Azura. Every one - the ones who quit before they even got that far, the ones that didn't bother with the mission, the ones that did the mission in a group of five - all five of them were the only ones in range.


    Not only that, but there's a lot of Final Fantasy style dialog/gameplay disconnect. After the penultimate acts of awesomery you commit in several missions, dialog regularly dictates that you then retreat from one ship that you could destroy in your sleep. Among other things that means that not only are you the only one (as is everyone else you fight alongside - from there point of view you're just another mundane captain with a much less interesting career than them), you only saved the IKS Kang once, not the 683 times your omega marks suggest. This sort of thing is pretty much required in MMOs when the same momentous event is repeated many times by thousands of groups.
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99
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    edited March 2013
    azniadeet wrote: »
    I was just looking at my accolades, and I realized that I have personally killed over 1000 Romulans, and destroyed at least 200 of their ships. Assuming that their average ship has at least 100 people aboard, that means I've killed at a minimum, 21000 Romulans myself.

    There are over 2 millions captains in STO right now. Assuming that at least 10% of them have killed as many Romulans as I have, that's 4.2 Billion dead Romulans.

    This is all coming about one generation after the destruction of their homeworld. How is this species surviving!?

    :P :D

    How many times did you kill the exact same Romulans though? You're caught in a temporal causality loop.
  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    That's right! I must've killed that Mr. Ulhan at least 1000 times!
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    They respawn just like us. Their respawn points are just far away so we can win the battles. The mission cooldown is the time it takes for the enemies to make their way back to the battlefield. :D
  • marc8219marc8219 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Well the Romulan miltary was all in space when the supernova occured, so its is assumed they survived almost completley intact. Also there were over a billion Romulans living on other planets and in space that survived. After almost 40 years and assuming they would be motivated to have lots of babies to help make up for their losses, their population could be over 2 billion or so I guess.
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  • duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    warpangel wrote: »
    They respawn just like us. Their respawn points are just far away so we can win the battles. The mission cooldown is the time it takes for the enemies to make their way back to the battlefield. :D

    qft 10 character.. whatever, 15
  • dlyntelanadlyntelana Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Part of me wishes for more cannon material to speculate from. I look over what materials from sources Alpha memory, Beta Memory and even Gamma memory sites on the Hobus supernova. I even read some of postings online on the Romulans. It really depends on how many Romulans were at Romulas Star system and how far the Romulans were from Hobus. I would say even the Romulans cannot maintain illusions of being well off after super nova.

    I however disagree with the books in the Beta memory that this is something they shrug off. It would seem to me the Typhon Pact is more necessity than want from being dead empire. It is really matter how many Romulans died during the 2387 and after will determine how slow they recover.
  • radkipradkip Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    This is all coming about one generation after the destruction of their homeworld. How is this species surviving!?
    The same way Vice City kept giving me civilians to squish with my car in GTA:VC despite having killed almost 4 million people on my main save file, with the manual saying the city had a population of somewhere around 7 or 8 million.

    ALIENS. (or tourists who look like romulans, if continuing the vice city theme)
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  • starhoundstarhound Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    If you think about it, the Federation has murdered more aliens by now than is imaginable. Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, Jem'Hadar, Undine, Remans....its like a galactic genocide. The Federation should be the only thing left soon.
    We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry
  • aelfwin1aelfwin1 Member Posts: 2,896 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    They do it ... more than once in 7 years ... !
    That's how ! :D
  • seanftdseanftd Member Posts: 319 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    azniadeet wrote: »
    I was just looking at my accolades, and I realized that I have personally killed over 1000 Romulans, and destroyed at least 200 of their ships. Assuming that their average ship has at least 100 people aboard, that means I've killed at a minimum, 21000 Romulans myself.

    There are over 2 millions captains in STO right now. Assuming that at least 10% of them have killed as many Romulans as I have, that's 4.2 Billion dead Romulans.

    This is all coming about one generation after the destruction of their homeworld. How is this species surviving!?

    :P :D

    The same way we survive, clicking the respawn button :D
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    They were all hiding on Galorndon Core.

    "We are smart." - Grebnedlog

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  • mattgrantmattgrant Member Posts: 57 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    azniadeet wrote: »
    I was just looking at my accolades, and I realized that I have personally killed over 1000 Romulans, and destroyed at least 200 of their ships. Assuming that their average ship has at least 100 people aboard, that means I've killed at a minimum, 21000 Romulans myself.

    There are over 2 millions captains in STO right now. Assuming that at least 10% of them have killed as many Romulans as I have, that's 4.2 Billion dead Romulans.

    This is all coming about one generation after the destruction of their homeworld. How is this species surviving!?

    :P :D

    Aggressive procreation. :cool:
  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    erocker wrote: »
    How is any space faring species surviving? Every day I see countless Federation ships getting blown into nothingness with anywhere from 150 to 1000 people on board.

    I guess it's because it's a video game.

    Actually it can go as high as 3,000 if the person is flying a carrier, and as low as 50 if like in a Defiant.
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