Romulan Time line
68 BC
Surak born on Vulcan as the light from the sigma-1014 Orionis nova reaches Vulcan.
23 BC
Vulcan receives first radio signals from Orion pirates arriving in their system.
22 BC
First meeting with the Orion pirates. Orion ship lands, stuns and kidnaps most of the official Vulcan delegation, murders the rest. Surak is not present due to travel difficulties. S'Task is captured. The `Ankh' begins.
22 BC
End of the `Ahkh'. Vulcans drive off the Orions using a combination of traditional warfare and psi weapons.
22 BC
Cloaked Orion spy ship destroyed. Hulk left in desert outside Te'Rikh as a monument.
21 BC
Riots on Vulcan as militaristic Vulcans in favour of arming to meet the interstellar threat clash with the more numerous pacifists supporting Surak.
7 BC
The number of the `Declared', Vulcans pledged to follow S'Task on the Journey, reaches 12000. S'Task first suggests that those who wish to go on the Journey should donate all their possessions to the cause.
AD 11
The number of the `Declared' reaches almost five percent of Vulcan's population. Ultimately, the limited number of ships, and the waning of early excitement about the project will substantially reduce the number of Vulcans who leave on the Journey.
AD 25
Rea's Helm leaves orbit and begins a three month tour of the solar system before accelerating out into interstellar space. Shortly followed by Warbird, Starcatcher, T'Hie, Pennon, Bloodwing, Corona, Lance, Gorget, Sunheart, Forge, Lost Road, Blacklight, Firestorm, Vengeance, Memory, and Shield.
AD 55
The fartravel ships arrive at the first star on their tour, 88 Eri. No habitable planets are found, and after reconnoitering the system the ships continue on towards 198 Eri.
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Seven ships -- Pennon, Starcatcher, Bloodwing, Forge, Lost Road, Lance, and Blacklight -- are caught in the event horizon of a newly formed black hole nearby 198 Eri. All seven ships are lost.
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The remaining fartravel ships reach 198 Eri. Demoralized after the black hole disaster, they spend 3.5 years in orbit, storing up energy and debating the future of the Journey. S'Task prevails in the debate and the ships continue on to 4408A/B Trianguli.
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Two ships -- T'Hie and Corona -- lost to the mind destroying race called the `Iruhe' at 4408B Trianguli. The remainder of the fleet flees 4408A/B at high speed. Firestorm and Vengeance become separated from the rest of the ships and wander for several years before rejoining the fleet.
UNKNOWN
Warbird suffers a drive failure and falls into 114 Trianguli while attempting a slingshot maneuver.
UNKNOWN
Shield is lost or destroyed.
UNKNOWN
Memory suffers a drive failure and falls into a black dwarf while attempting a slingshot maneuver.
UNKNOWN
Sunheart abandoned after disease kills most of the crew.
AD 533
The four remaining ships -- Rea's Helm, Gorget, Vengeance and Firestorm -- arrive in the 128 Trianguli system and find two habitable worlds.
AD 534, 0 AS (After Settlement)
The two worlds are named `ch'Rihan' and `ch'Havran' and the first Travellers begin to disembark from the fartravel ships to colonize the two worlds.
AD 537, 3 AS
The last of the Travellers disembark from the ships, leaving only the Ship Clans.
AD 594, 60 AS
Under the rule of Councillor T'Rehu, the nation of Elheu raises a standing army and begins threatening its neighbors. Between 60 AS and 72 AS, T'Rehu invades several smaller neighboring nations.
AD 606, 72 AS
T'Rehu receives the Grand Councillorship after intimidating the Grand Council with the possible use of her armies, and her alliances with the technologically advanced Ship Clans. S'Task walks out on her, and she swears he will never do so again.
AD 612, 78 AS
Famine strikes the South Continent of ch'Havran and 1500 die. T'Rehu has S'Task (aged 248) murdered in the High Council when he attempts to walk out. She declares the beginning of the `rule of women' and takes the title of `Ruling Queen'.
AD 630, 96 AS
A faction from the Eastern continent overthrows T'Rehu and sets up the Tricameral system of government.
AD 784, 250 AS
By this time, the technology in the four remaining Ships has substantially degraded and fallen into disrespair. The Ship Clans have dwindled, and the Romulans now lack an interstellar travel capacity.
AD 835, 300 AS
Over the years 300 AS to 400 AS, the orbits of the Ships decay and they all fall from the sky.
AD 1043, 508 AS
The Romulan government completes a small sattelite warning and defense system.
AD 2034, 1499 AS
The Romulans develop the technology of artificial gravity.
AD 2134, 1599 AS
The USS Carrizal enters the Romulan star system, evades the satellite warning system, and beams radio first contact messages to the two inhabited planets. The Romulans do not answer them, and the Carrizal leaves after completing its studies.
AD 2137, 1602 AS
The USS Balboa enters the Romulan star system and is destroyed by the massed particle beams of fifty newly built Romulan ships. The USS Stone Mountain is captured while answering the Balboa's distress call and dissected to acquire warp drive technology.
AD 2162, 1627 AS
After a bad defeat at the Battle of Cheron discourages the Romulans, and the Vulcans persuade the Federation, the two sides negotiate the Treaty of Alpha Trianguli via subspace data upload. The Treaty establishes the Neutral Zone as a one light year buffer between Federation and Romulan space.
AD 2266, 1731 AS
A lone bird of prey is destroyed by the USS Enterprise during a covert mission to test a new technology called the cloaking device. The bird of prey destroyed four federation outposts and damaged the Enterprise before its destruction.
AD 2313, 1778 AS
The Tomed Incident sparks a reaffirming of the Treaty of Algeron between the Romulans and the Federation. It also marks the beginning of a period of Romulan isolation from the affairs of the interstellar community. A new species called the Taurhi emerges as a threat to the Empire. War is declared between the two empires.
AD 2343, 1808 AS
The Romulans muster a final defense to keep the Taurhi from penetrating Romulus. The Romulans defeated the Taurhi, ending the war, with the Battle of Chi'tai, when they took the war to the Taurhi homeworld.
AD 2344, 1809 AS
The Romulans begin a series of attacks on Klingon outposts as punishment for the Klingon raiding of Rihannsu outposts during the Taurhi crisis. Narendra III becomes the first target.
AD 2346, 1811 AS
The Romulans end the Klingon punishment with the Khitomer Massacre.
AD 2364, 1829 AS
A joint mission between a Romulan Warbird and the USS Enterprise 1701-D marks the end of the Romulan isolation.
AD 2371, 1836 AS
A Romulan plan to close the Bajoran wormhole and prevent a Dominion invasion is foolishly foiled by the Federation prescense in Bajor.
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Romulans signed a non agression pact with the Dominion.
AD 2375, 1840 AS
The Romulan Senator Vreenak is murdered by the Dominion to prevent him from revealing a Dominion plot to invade Romulus. The Romulans discover the plot anyway and immediately enter the war against the dominion, destroying many outposts in the first two days.
AD 2376, 1841 AS
The Dominion surrenders and the powers set back to lick their wounds. A new threat called the Askasha'siiv arises on the Romulan's coreward border and they are forced to rebuild as fast as possible to guard against this advanced reptilian race as well as any chance that the Taurhi will invade as a result of Romulus's weakness after the war.
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