Remus
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*FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY: Obsidian Fleet follows the premise that all the planets of the Romulus System, including Romulus and Remus were destroyed in 2387 when the Hobus Star went supernova (as occurred in the 2009 Star Trek movie). For history and guidelines regarding this and subsequent events relating to the destruction of Romulus, click here.*
Remus is the third of four planets in the Romulan System, home of the Remans and sister planet to Romulus.
After Romulus was settled by a group of Vulcan dissenters over a millennium ago, Remus was slowly colonized and soon the exploitation of its rich dilithium sources began. The Remans, either a native species of Remus or the descendants of Romulan settlers, are since regarded as an undesired caste in Romulan society and were forced to labor in the planet's dilithium mines. Since the Reman dayside is far too hot to be colonized, their bodies slowly adapted to the harsh environmental conditions on the nightside. Their appearance and senses are the result of evolution in eternal Reman night.
Climate
Remus, or Romii, lies just inward of Romulus’ orbit. It is a much less desirable world. It is tidally locked, so it scorches on one side and freezes on the other. The Romulans displaced a primitive native species and took over the world as a mining colony. Over the centuries, the colony became a sort of throw-away for Romulans and other species who were considered inferior but not so dangerous as to require execution, and turned into a combination of prison mine and impressed shipyard. While Remus has a marginally breathable atmosphere in the underground tunnels where it’s warm enough to live, only Romulan technologies brought in the necessary food and water supplies for survival.
Geography
Remus, by contrast to to lush oceans and forests of Romulus, is an arid rockball. The world has very little water and mostly hosts innumerable tunnels bored out of the dark rock. The world has few features beyond jagged rock faces and the occasional artificial construction.
Politics
Remus and Romulus are the major worlds of the Romulan Star Empire, one of the mightiest powers in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. However, Remus and its inhabitants had been excluded from Romulan politics until 2379, when Shinzon, a Human clone imprisoned on Remus, became Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire by a coup d'état. However his plans to annihilate Earth and to crush the Romulan government were thwarted by the Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Since this incident, Romulan politics might pay more attention to Remus and its population.
Places of Interest
The Reman mines are not exactly a “place of interest” so much as a location of strategic importance. Reman laborers, as supervised slaves, here extract the resources that form the backbone of the Romulan Star Navy’s might. Dilithium and polyduranium all come from the winding tunnels of this maze, whose inhabitants rarely see light and have become degenerate creatures thanks to their generations of imprisonment.
Reference(s)
- Burns, Eric, Kenneth A. Hite & Doug Sun. Star Trek Roleplaying Game Book 7: Worlds, Decipher, 2005. ISBN: 1582369097.