Romulus system

The Romulus system was an inhabited planetary system in Sector Z-6, Beta Quadrant.

This was the home system of the Romulans and the Remans and was the capital system of the Romulan Star Empire.

In 2387, the system was destroyed when Romulus exploded in a supernova. The explosive power of this supernova devastated a large area of space extending many light years past the Romulus system. (TOS: "Balance of Terror", display graphic; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, production art; DS9: "The Search, Part II"; Star Trek Nemesis; Star Trek; PIC: "Remembrance", "Disengage")

Components

Stellar system

This was a binary star system. The primary star of this system was a M-type star. Its companion Romulus was a K-type dwarf.

Planetary system

In Romulus' system, there were at least four planets. The second and third planets were Romulus and Remus, the homeworlds of the Romulans and Remans, respectively. These planets were located in the habitable zone of their system. (Star Trek Nemesis)

Stellar cartography

In 2259, the system's location was seen on a stellar cartography chart seen on the USS Enterprise's ready room viewscreen. The system's symbol had a green color, indicating its affiliation with the empire. (SNW: "A Quality of Mercy")

During the Neutral Zone Incursion of 2266, the location of the Romulan system was labeled on a star chart of Sector Z-6 that was displayed on the bridge viewscreen of the USS Enterprise. (TOS: "Balance of Terror", production art)

In 2293, the location of Romulus and Remus in the Milky Way Galaxy was labeled in a star chart that was in Captain James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the USS Enterprise-A. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, okudagram)

On stardate 1292.4, the location of this system was labeled in a chart used during a Section 31 Alpha Team briefing. (Star Trek: Section 31)

In 2399, the star chart in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters did not show the location of the Romulan system. (PIC: "Maps and Legends")

In 2401, this system's position was labeled on a star chart used by Captain William T. Riker during his attempt at finding the last known location of the SS Eleos XII. (PIC: "The Next Generation")

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Background information

This system was first named in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "A Quality of Mercy".

Further inforomation on the Romulus system could be had from the Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 66) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"; "Position of the Romulan Empire"). It was classified as a binary system with a M-class star and a K-class star. This system was in the Romulan War Theater of Operations (2156-2160). In 2266, the Praetor's flagship departed the Romulus system on its mission to the Neutral Zone. The Romulus system was identified as a Romulan system in a star chart created by Stellar Archive Artist Lsel Essik in 2366 for the Romulan Master Data Catalog.

Apocrypha

In the Star Trek Maps (p. 29) and The Worlds of the Federation (p. 148), the Romulan star system was described as a binary star system of two white dwarfs known to the Federation as Romulus (primary) and Romulus B (secondary). In Diane Duane's Rihannsu novels, the Romulan system was a single G9-class star, known as 128 Trianguli to the Federation and Eisn to the Romulans ("homesun" in the Romulan language).

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