Reman
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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.*
The Remans have been the slave labor caste of the Romulan people since at least the 22nd century and have been forced to work in the extremely hazardous dilithium mines of their world. Among the Romulan people, Remans have historically been known as great warriors. As such, Romulan senators often had Reman bodyguards in their employ to intimidate possible opponents.(ENT: "United", "The Aenar")
As Remus is a tidally locked planet, the Remans live on its dark side, and thus are extremely sensitive to light. Some Remans, if not all, possess telepathic abilities similar to those shown by Vulcans and Betazoids. The Reman language was "a most complex language" that utilized pictographs representing certain verb roots. (Star Trek Nemesis)
Remans were used by the Romulan Empire as "cannon fodder" during the Dominion War, and were often deployed in the fiercest engagements.
In 2379, the Remans usurped the power of their Romulan overlords in a military coup, installing their leader, Shinzon (in actuality, a clone of Jean-Luc Picard), as the new Praetor of the Romulan Senate and thus the empire. As an act of war against the Federation, Praetor Shinzon – with his warbird, the Scimitar – then attempted to destroy Earth.
However, with the destruction of the Scimitar at the Battle of the Bassen Rift, after Shinzon's supporters on Romulus turned against him, the bid for Reman superiority was prematurely ended.