Romulan Star Empire

The seat of the interstellar stant known as the Romulan Star Empire is based upon the twin worlds of Romulus and Remus, both of which are moons orbiting the same gas giant planet. The natives of Romulus are a subspecies of Vulcans and the people of Remus are Humans. Both peoples were placed on these two worlds from the planets Earth and Vulcan by the Progenitors. The Romulans are sometime allies of the Earth Alliance and the Vulcans of the planet Vulcan, while they are often hostile to the Klingon Empire and the Cylon Empire. The humans of Remus were mostly taken from the ancient Roman Empire on Earth, and they influenced the political and religious systems of the Romulan Star Empire. The Vulcans of Romulus were taken from Vulcan prior to the reform of Sarek who preached extreme emotional control, and so they can be passionate. The government of the Romulan Star Empire is jointly by a hereditary monarch called the First Citizen (always racially a Vulcan native to Romulus) and a Senate of hereditary members (composed mostly of Vulcans native to Romulus and humans native to Remus). Droids are used by the Romulan mainly for civilian and non-combative purposes, since it is considered dishonorable to use such robots for combate (not unlike the attitude in the Kilingon Empire). The official religion of the Romulans is based upon the worship of a solar deity called the Unconquered Sun (often identified with the Allspark; see Cult of the Allspark) and ancient Vulcan and Greco-Roman gods (who are often identified with the Progenitors) as lesser deities. Some citizens of the Romulan Star Empire have converted to the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun, though.