Romulan Exodus ship by Imperator-Zor on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

This ship was created by those Vulcans who made the exodus to Romulus. In the last few months of the war they made use of a number of interplanetary shuttles to relocate high ranking officials, soldiers, their families and those which possessed various engineering to another planet in the Vulcan system after destroying all other surface to orbit craft that they knew about as a desperation move to prevent pursuit. There they made use of industrial facilities and some old salvaged ships to make ready for their final exodus. The older ships, relics of a previous age of exploration and colonization, were either patched up or cannibalized. The newer ships, such as this one were little more than hexagonal boxes with basic warp drives and fusion rockets for propulsion. It was 142 meters long and weighed 11,200 tonnes, typical of those that were thrown together. It had a crew of thirty and carried some 2,500 cryo-pods. It had no weapons baring a small number of small arms for the crew. It did carry a set of simple surface to orbit shuttles. Others carried supplies, seedstock, industrial equipment and so forth.

The convoy puttered along at a slow speed of Warp 1.8 for more than a decade into uncharted space with a few scout ships running ahead. Several ships were lost due to breakdowns or mechanical failures, but faced no attackers. Eventually they found a system rich with minerals and with two habitable planets. They flew into orbit, unfroze their settlers and deployed their colonists. Thus Romulus was born.

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