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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

While the conference would be a diplomatic triumph for the Romulans, securing economic support and basing rights for the fleet (and tweaking the nose of chancellor Gowron in the process) it also committed them to the allies “Cardassia First” policy, which would cause massive fleet losses

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At the conference Praetor Neral presented President Min Zife with a trophy, a piece of hull from a Jem’Hadar attack ship fused into rock from the planets Third Moon, decorated with Benzite, Romulan and Federation Emblems.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Deneva conference was the first meeting of the “Big Three” of the alliance, held only a few months after the Romulan entry into the war. Prior to it the Star Navy’s 7th and 9th Expeditionary Fleet Groups had launched an offensive to liberate the planet Benzar from Dominion occupation

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

”Gentle-Beings I give you liberated Benzar…and damnation to the Dominion!” - Praetor Neral tr’Vatoth’s toast at the Deneva conference, december 2374. (Artwork by the sublimely skilled @crowlls.bsky.social)

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Her half sisters lost to other causes, the massive ships would be sorely missed in the 2380 when the Hobus disaster befell the empire.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Following an engine breakdown in 2325 the Tyrava would remain stationary in the orbit of Garid, serving as the nerve center for Romulan operations throughout the Avvrhi’afvu. It was in that system the ship would meet its end, carrying Praetor Dralath on his final death ride against the Borg in 2349

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Rather than its inteded mission the Tyrava would form the spearhead of the rebel forces that ended the Second Republic and created the Second Empire under the rule of Ael t'Rllaillieu. Heavily armed and capable of carrying ground troops, she and her half sister the Kaveth were key to success.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Tyrava was a Romulan generation ship lanuched in 2276 by dissident Rihannsu seeking to escape the oppressive rule of the Second Republic. Carrying over 380000 people, the ship was consciously modelled on the great ships that left Vulcan 2000 years earlier (artwork by @ncc-60205.bsky.social )

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Destruction of Tal Shiar archives after the fall of empress Sela means we may never have an answer. Most historians either respect the official version or acknowledge that one of history's most famous cold cases will never be solved.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Who had all the reasons to both kill Vreenak and incite a war with the Dominion? Who had control over the investigation into his death? Who could have gotten their hands onto a rare Cardassian storage device? That trail end at one door only.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The most popular suspects, then and now, were the members of the organisation of whom Vreenak was the deputy head, the Tal Shiar themselves. Vary of the Dominion and still smarting from their humiliation at the Omarion Nebula three years prior, the organisation was not aboard with Vreenak's policy.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

But if not them who? The Cardassian liberation front was not yet formed, Klingon intelligence would not have had access and other more far fetched ideas like conspiracies of Starflet officers can be dismissed out of hand, even if the allies were those who benefited the most.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Even after interviewing numerous Dominion personal after the end of the war allied interrogators could find no satisfactory answer, nor could sifting through the remains of Soukara base. And while the Dominion are not averse to underhanded tactics they historically have shown to keep their treaties.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Given said evidence the obvious culprit would be the Dominion. However the question ahs to be asked: why go to the trouble of planting a bomb on Vreenak's shuttle? If they knew of the recording before he left Soukara why not detain him? If they didn't know, why assassinate an ally?

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Vreenak was the leader of the peace party, vice chairman of the Tal Shiar and one of the rising stars of Romulan politics. His death by bombing returning from Soukara meeting with Dominion leadership, returning as it turned out with evidence of a Dominion sneak attack, brought Romulus into the war

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Cold Case: Who killed senator Vreenak tr’Merken?* The death of the celebrated senator and author of the Dominion-Romulan detente was a political shock whose ramifications were quadrant wide, yet the perpetrators are still speculated about. *Yes I know who actually killed him, this is in-universe

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

He would lose his position with the downfall of the Neral Committe in 2377 and retire off-world after an assassination attempt in 2378. This would inadvertently save his life. Moving to Mol'Rihan in 2411, his subsequently published memoirs remains an important source for this period of history.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In the following reshuffling of the Continuing Committee Letant became Chairman of the War plans Council, effectivly minister of defence: de would remain so throughout the war. While effective in this position his agreement with allied demands of a "Cardassia First" strategy made him unpopular.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

By the 2370s he had emerged as the leader of the anti-Dominion War party after its temporary fall from grace after the battle of Omarion Nebula. This made him the rival of one Vreenak. The two would battle it out on the senate floor until the later'.s untimely death in 2374

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Letant was a conservative of the Ih'rhiymn faction and originally one of Praetor Dralath's protégés. Supporting his policies of stricter control of the outmarches, Tal Shiar expansion and the Narendra III campaign, Letant would break with Dralath after his breakdown prior to the battle of Metobos

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Letant tr’Arhee, senator for the A'vat segment 2328-2378, proconsul 2346-2350, chairman of the War plans Council 2374-2377.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Only with empress Sela and later with the Fourth Republic would the d’Rhaaih be recreated and become the standard currency of post-Hobus Romulan space.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Post Hobus the d’Rhaaih would collapse as the fractured emprie lacke dthe institutions to uphold trust in it. Instead Federation credits, Orion Energy Orbs, gold pressed latinum and even Klingon Darseks would enter into standard use.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Restoring trust in the currency and strenghtening the empire's latinum reserves was one of the primary policies of Nerals post-war successor Hiren, with little effect but huge unpopularity.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The empire's perennial isolation allowed the senate to manipulate this essentially at will. However when the empire's markets were opened during the Dominion war it would spark a currency crisis forcing praetor Neral to tie its value to the Ferenginar Gold Pressed Latinum standard.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Semi electronic systems like a the Prime Transfer Authority also existed but during the Second Empire empress Ael would institute a major currency reform, creating an electronic currency based on the Federation Credit, the d’Rhaaih (Great chain). This would also be the currency of the Third Republic

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

When a monetary economy returned it did so in the form of plates of rare metals. These could be round or square and were usually carried on a string or chain. By the time of the Second Republic these chains had become the actual currency, with chains or quarter chains of cash used colloquially.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Rihan does not have a sepate word for money. The word most commonally used, iæhhs, most clearly translates as wealth or asset and is the root for various adjectives such as wealthy (iæhhsemh). Early post-settlement Romulus had little use for a monetary economy and largely operated on barter/credit.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A From the Ashes short story: Excerpt from “From the Remus Mines to the Senate floor: the memoirs of Varak c’Tivu” fallofromulus.weebly.com/the-recruitm...

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Ultimately Dralath's death in battle rather than losing a no confidence vote in the senate would make him a martyr and hinder attempts to roll back his centralising and politically limiting "reforms". The political climate of the late years of the Third Republic was very much Dralaths legacy.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Attempting to shore up his position Dralath would take personal command of the fleet and leading it in the disastrous battle of Metobos. Presumed dead after the destruction of his flagship though no body was recovered: rumours of encountering a drone of the Praetor would circulate in the fleet

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

But it was in foreign policy that Dralath's influence would be the greatest, and arguably the most disastrous. In 2344 he authorised the strike on the Klingon colony of Narendra III, a tactical success that would drive the empire's two oldest enemies into an alliance.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The later involved weakening the relative independance of Outmarch colonies that had begun during the empress reign. It also involved giving the Tal Shiar greater latitude in surveilling and persecuting disloyal elements within society, including ending the Right of Statement for sedition verdicts.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Dralath would seize on a scandal regarding corruption in overseeing settlements in the so called Empty Frontier to propel himself to the Praetorship. He would immediately begin enacting his two signature policies: a muscular approach to foreign powers and a strenghtening of central authority.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Dralath began his career as a historian, specialising in the history of Earth-Romulan war. He ascended to the senate in 2277, standing for election to replace his uncle, a Second Republic loyalist who had resigned his seat rather than be purged by newly crowned empress Ael t'Rllaillieu.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Dralath tr’Kazanak was a senator representing the Omrashar segment on Romulus and Praetor for almost twenty years in the mid 24th century. A leader within the Ih'rhiymn (broadly conservative) faction, Dralaths praetorship would reshape the Third Republic. (artwork by @herblinz.bsky.social)

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Jaroks daughter Tiaru Jaro would have a military career of her own, toiling in obscurity before becoming one of the first officers to defect to the dissidents that would create the Fourth Republic. His reputation as a man willing to stand up to injustice would make him a hero of the new republic.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Jarok would commit suicide in an attempt to restore his honor. Quickly forgotten by those responsible for the operation, the Imperial military would remember the dishonourable way one of their best had been used. These grievances would find a drastic outlet in the years following the Dominion War.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

He would resort to crossing the border to bring news of war preparations to Starfleet to avoid a war. Unbeknowst to him he had been fed false information, a ploy to force a Federation violence of the Neutral Zone to advance Romulan positions, part of the Salami slicing approach to the border.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Jarok would serve honorably throughout the Klingon border skirmishes and the disastrous Borg wars, being promoted to En'Riov or full admiral in 2359. Aware of the heavy casualties suffered by his service in the later, he was critical of the more confrontational policy of the senate.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

As a young Khre'Riov he made his bones when he led an unsupported navy strike force a hundred lightyears beyond their base at Garid to strike at the Orion run Norkan outposts, from where frontier dissidents where suspected of purchasing advanced weaponry.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Alidar tr'Jarok was was a senior military commander during the mid Third Republic. Like most senior military personal he had enlisted during the reign of empress Ael t'Rllaillieu and was often uncomfortable with the more chaotic politics of the Third Republic.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

As an aside Cai’th’lin had partial human ancestry, from a grandfather who had been taken captive as a child on Deneva during the Earth-Romulan war. She would claim to be of Irish descent during her career though there is no evidence she was: her given name has its roots in Rihan for compassion.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Her reputal of her goverment's unification plan is one of the clearest evidence of wide-spread discord regarding the foreign policy of the late Third Republic. The fact that she did so and lived shows just how high that discord went.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

By the 2360s she was considered the grandee of what amounted to the Romulan diplomatic corps and the head of the Committee for Interstellar Correspondence, the closest thing the Third Republic had to a foreign service think tank.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Cai’th’lin t’Dar was a Romulan diplomat famous for her involvement in the Nimbus III incident of 2287, the Khitomer conferences in the 2290s and as the penultimate Romulan ambassador to Earth before the Tomed incident and subsequent Romulan isolation in 2315.

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"We are facing a long and bitter war. But we shall met it, met it as we have faced every battle, every struggle, every challenge since we first time took our tender steps in the skies. We are the Romulan Star Empire! And our shadow will blot out the very sun of Cardassia before we are done."

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"This is a war that will force us to work with those we once considered enemies. Our old foes expect us to show weakness in front of them: let everyone know that the Rihannsu are no one's fools."

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"To those living under the protection of the Raptors Wings I say: this is your war too! The founders do not care for your race or creed, only your subjugation. The Senate guarantees reward for your service , the founders nothing but your destruction. Only together can we survive this treachery! "

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