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Romulan Fleet Department Colors

damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
edited January 2014 in Romulan Discussion
if anyone cares here's the colors the Romulans use(ed) on their uniforms to denote their departments in the early 24th century:

Royal purple - High level command and flag officers
Jade/pale green - Tactical officers
Grey - Sciences and technical specialists
Dark blue - Engineering


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"Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
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  • bohiapbohiap Member Posts: 535
    edited August 2013
    I actually wondered about that during the beta. I had a fed allied Rom and used starfleet division colors, but it looked funny.
  • damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    bohiap wrote: »
    I actually wondered about that during the beta. I had a fed allied Rom and used starfleet division colors, but it looked funny.

    Yeah, that's why I went looking. Red just doesn't suit my Reman Tactical Captain.
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  • diotwdiotw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    That's handy, I was trying to use some form of divisional colour scheme on the Tal Shiar uniform, but with only the Federation colours to go by, it didn't look right. Thanks for the info!
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  • davidwforddavidwford Member Posts: 1,836 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    damzelltrill wrote: »
    if anyone cares here's the colors the Romulans use(ed) on their uniforms to denote their departments in the early 24th century:

    Royal purple - High level command and flag officers
    Jade/pale green - Tactical officers
    Grey - Sciences and technical specialists
    Dark blue - Engineering


    Information found on Memory Beta

    Now if the programers would only implement those colors in-game much as they have for the Federation.....
  • starsider32485starsider32485 Member Posts: 57 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Huh...may have to try and implement these colors into my Romulan captain/Boff's uniforms. Might look better than the mostly green outfits I currently have them wearing.
  • oddboyoutoddboyout Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Cool I'll try these out on my characters. :) It's not canon, so I understand Cryptic taking it in their own direction. I wonder how these will look on the Klingon-Romulan uniforms. Right now I'm using Green for Sci, Red-Tac, and Yellow-Eng.

    Additional Observation:
    The Romulan Republic belts' device glows come in three-ish colors. Green, teal & blue, and Yellow. If we use the OP's department-color combos that could be Green for Tactical and Teal/Blue for Engineering, leaving Yellow for Science.
  • heflin1heflin1 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    oddboyout wrote: »
    Cool I'll try these out on my characters. :) It's not canon, so I understand Cryptic taking it in their own direction. I wonder how these will look on the Klingon-Romulan uniforms. Right now I'm using Green for Sci, Red-Tac, and Yellow-Eng.

    Additional Observation:
    The Romulan Republic belts' device glows come in three-ish colors. Green, teal & blue, and Yellow. If we use the OP's department-color combos that could be Green for Tactical and Teal/Blue for Engineering, leaving Yellow for Science.
    Yellow is romulan doc.
  • autumnturningautumnturning Member Posts: 743 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    damzelltrill wrote: »
    Royal purple - High level command and flag officers
    Jade/pale green - Tactical officers
    Grey - Sciences and technical specialists
    Dark blue - Engineering

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    The thing that really gets me is ... the KDF Dark Palette doesn't have that shade of pinky-purple-red available to it. :mad:
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  • sernonserculionsernonserculion Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    I found my personal "excuse" to use green on my TOS stuff, given that if you search long and hard enough, the answers will always be there. That's early Tal Shiar. You know. From when it was still an honor to be one. :)

    ( Info far down to the left side. Under "Romulan Ranks". )

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  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    sernonserculion wrote: »
    I found my personal "excuse" to use green on my TOS stuff, given that if you search long and hard enough, the answers will always be there. That's early Tal Shiar. You know. From when it was still an honor to be one. :)

    ( Info far down to the left side. Under "Romulan Ranks". )

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    Except Tal'Shiar have, according to all available info about them, never been military, but always civilian (so calling them a "security division" and giving them military sashes seems a bit disingenuous at best).

    What I'm currently using in my fleet uniforms (bear in mind that my fleet is a Military Intelligence fleet, and black is the basic color, although dark grey may be substituted for black where the tailor does not allow black):
    Solid Black - Erein
    Black with Green - Tactical (Enarrain and up)
    Black with Blue - Security (Enarrain and up)
    Black with Grey - Science & Medical (Enarrain and up)
    Black with Yellowish - Engineering & Operations (Enarrain and up)
    Black with Red - Command (khre'Riov and up)
    Black and Violet with Red - High Command (khre'Enriov and galae'Enriov)
    Black and Violet with Grey-Violet - galae'Enriov
  • sernonserculionsernonserculion Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    protogoth wrote: »
    Except Tal'Shiar have, according to all available info about them, never been military, but always civilian (so calling them a "security division" and giving them military sashes seems a bit disingenuous at best).

    You would be amazed, beyond doubt. The Tal Shiar used to be called such things as "the special intelligence branch of the Romulan military", in the good old days. When you could use them to have good old fashioned fun. Since that's not allowed anymore, then such fun must be secretly had nonetheless. ;)

    ( The Starfleet Command series, the reference here, *heavily* influenced the space combat in this game. And it is indeed still the best part of it. IMHO.)

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  • thunderfoot#5163 thunderfoot
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    edited November 2013
    Thanks for the information on Rihannsu branch colors. Means my Rommie toons no longer have to look like Firefly escapees, lol. Although, if they were allowed to bring some Reivers with them, I think the Elachi might go hunting elsewhere for new troops. Unless they have the misfortune to run into Whisper. In that case, God help them.
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  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited November 2013
    Surprised no one else has asked this... but can we get this stickied?
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    This page needs updated with Romulan stuff.
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  • davidwforddavidwford Member Posts: 1,836 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    orangeitis wrote: »
    This page needs updated with Romulan stuff.

    I totally agree. Especially with the new uniforms and options.
  • oddboyoutoddboyout Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    So here is my current department setup.

    Command Purple H2 | Tactical & Security Green E1 | Engineering Blue F4 | Science Grey I18 | Medical Yellow D4

    1WwC5ND.jpg

    Excuse the bugged BOff uniform.
  • jaymadiv#8056 jaymadiv
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         Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    oddboyout wrote: »
    So here is my current department setup.

    Command Purple H2 | Tactical & Security Green E1 | Engineering Blue F4 | Science Grey I18 | Medical Yellow D4

    1WwC5ND.jpg

    Excuse the bugged BOff uniform.

    this color scheme looks nice. I'll probably do this, except using White for my primary top color rather than grey. probably keep grey for my primary pants color though.

    would that be out of place for a Romulan?
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  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    jmadfour wrote: »
    this color scheme looks nice. I'll probably do this, except using White for my primary top color rather than grey. probably keep grey for my primary pants color though.

    would that be out of place for a Romulan?

    The original "Balance of Terror" script called for the Commander to be in white to distinguish him from the others on his ship. However, before the episode was filmed, the script was changed (this wasn't the only change).

    So the answer to your question is "maybe, maybe not."

    I say "Go for it." We're New Romulans, which means that a past custom may or may not be preserved.
  • oddboyoutoddboyout Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    I agree with protogoth, try out new uniforms and color schemes! I plan to do something totally different with my Reman character.
  • greendragon527greendragon527 Member Posts: 386 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    You know, the only the other day I noticed that they changed shirt colours for department,..swore they were all in some sorta pale green before, but in Sphere of Influence, Kererek is clearly in green(not pale green), Maiek in pale yellow, Adranna in dark blue. Was this always so and I didn't notice, or was it just for this FE?
  • starsider32485starsider32485 Member Posts: 57 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    greendragon527 wrote: »
    You know, the only the other day I noticed that they changed shirt colours for department,..swore they were all in some sorta pale green before, but in Sphere of Influence, Kererek is clearly in green(not pale green), Maiek in pale yellow, Adranna in dark blue. Was this always so and I didn't notice, or was it just for this FE?

    You think that's confusing, go walk around your lower decks on the Romulan ship interior, and you notice crew members wearing red walking around. What department do they belong to?
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited November 2013
    starsider32485 wrote: »
    You think that's confusing, go walk around your lower decks on the Romulan ship interior, and you notice crew members wearing red walking around. What department do they belong to?
    considering kerererereek is in the same tacky yellowish color as everyone else when you report to him in Command, I think the sphere mission was their first attempt.
  • greendragon527greendragon527 Member Posts: 386 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    starsider32485 wrote: »
    You think that's confusing, go walk around your lower decks on the Romulan ship interior, and you notice crew members wearing red walking around. What department do they belong to?

    Those are the guys who die when your ship gets hit by a torpedo xD

    EDIT: oddboyout, great pic, and might I add the KDF uniform is much better looking than the Fed one, more professional and Romulan looking to me
  • oddboyoutoddboyout Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    The Fed-Rom uniform is oddly busy. I would think the Fed-Rom uniform would be more streamlined than the KDF-Rom uniform.
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    oddboyout wrote: »
    The Fed-Rom uniform is oddly busy. I would think the Fed-Rom uniform would be more streamlined than the KDF-Rom uniform.
    Yeah, it's all over the place. Maybe it's the default colors. I just don't think they mesh that well.

    Maybe if the default colors were to be better...
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  • oddboyoutoddboyout Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Okay I'm beginning to flesh out the idea for my Romulan Department colors. :)

    The Federation color scheme is similar to the artist's subtractive primary color palette: Red, Yellow, and Blue.

    A Romulan Republic department color scheme could be based on the modern Subtractive Primary Color palette: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black). We could use Magenta for Command, Cyan for Technical, White/Grey/Silver for Sciences, Yellow for Medical. Tactical & Security would be the odd-one out in this scheme, using Romulan-blood Green.

    I imagine most scientists of the Republic are likely focused on the settlement of New Romulus. I don't think they would be a very large presence in the Republic Navy yet.
  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    oddboyout wrote: »
    Okay I'm beginning to flesh out the idea for my Romulan Department colors. :)

    The Federation color scheme is similar to the artist's subtractive primary color palette: Red, Yellow, and Blue.

    A Romulan Republic department color scheme could be based on the modern Subtractive Primary Color palette: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black). We could use Magenta for Command, Cyan for Technical, White/Grey/Silver for Sciences, Yellow for Medical. Tactical & Security would be the odd-one out in this scheme, using Romulan-blood Green.

    I imagine most scientists of the Republic are likely focused on the settlement of New Romulus. I don't think they would be a very large presence in the Republic Navy yet.

    I suspect some of the boys would view magenta as "too girly," but nothing says each command can't have its own department colors for crew of the commanding officer's various vessels.
  • blueseterblueseter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    oddboyout wrote: »
    Okay I'm beginning to flesh out the idea for my Romulan Department colors. :)

    The Federation color scheme is similar to the artist's subtractive primary color palette: Red, Yellow, and Blue.

    A Romulan Republic department color scheme could be based on the modern Subtractive Primary Color palette: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black). We could use Magenta for Command, Cyan for Technical, White/Grey/Silver for Sciences, Yellow for Medical. Tactical & Security would be the odd-one out in this scheme, using Romulan-blood Green.

    I imagine most scientists of the Republic are likely focused on the settlement of New Romulus. I don't think they would be a very large presence in the Republic Navy yet.

    I'd think that Security should be Black. I can see Tactical using the Green color. I like everything else on the suggestions.

    Edit: Going to Color Name & Hue site: http://www.color-blindness.com/color-name-hue/ , (I have color issues personally), here is what I have down for the departments thus far.

    Command: Magenta
    Sciences: Silver/White/Gray
    Medical: Yellow/Teal
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  • sernonserculionsernonserculion Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    protogoth wrote: »
    I suspect some of the boys would view magenta as "too girly," but nothing says each command can't have its own department colors for crew of the commanding officer's various vessels.

    When your blood is green, accordingly will the colorwheel be seen. ;)

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