Romulan Technology
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This page is al about Romulan
technology like the cloaking device and quantum singularity
drive. Those two technologies are the greatest achiefments of
Romulan scientists. There will also be more about other Romulan
technologies on this page in the future .
On Stardate 1709.1 the Bonhomme Ri
Romulan Space. Suddenly, it vanished from the sensors, reappeared
directly in front of the outpost and fired what later came to be
called a "plasma torpedo". The torpedo obliterated the
outpost's deflector screens, nearly destroying it. A second shot
finished the intruder's job. Then the ship simply disappeared
from view.
That was the first encounter with the Romulans after almost a
century since the battle of Cheron. The vessel that destroyed
S-4023 (and also S-4024 and S-4025) was a Romulan P-1A Bird of Prey
with a first generation cloaking device.
Later, a third generation cloaking device has been obtained by
the U.S.S. Enterprise in an espionage mission.
The Klingons gained the technology from their alliance with the
Romulans in exchange for their D-6 Raxor and D-7 Klolode battle
cruisers. Thus the three major powers in this part of the galaxy
came to posses what proved to be one of the most formidable
weapons ever.
Star Fleet, which used the cloaking device on its vessels in the
late 2200's and early 2300's, has decided that the peaceful
(mostly) mission definition of the Explorer type of starships
precludes its use. Further- more, the overall shape and hull
materials used in the Galaxy, Ambassador, and Oberth class
starships would interfere with the cloaking device. Although it
is still possible to cloak them, the energy necessary increases
beyond reasonable limit. Today, only specialized scouting,
stealth, and battle ships use cloaking devices.
The Klingon Empire has used the cloaking technology ever since
their technology exchange with the Romulans in 2263, and
continues to do so. Nearly all of its Bird of Prey type ships are
equipped with it as are the D- 6, D-7, D-8 (K'T'Inga), and the
new K'Vort class battle cruisers.
Our Empire naturally still uses the cloaking device. Although
much about them is now unknown due to the fifty-year contact
breach after the Tomad incident, it is certain that their newest
vessels, the D'Deridex class warbirds, are equipped with a new generation of cloaking
devices which have so far defied all Federation attempts at
detection without the use of tachyons.
Our cloaking device is an energy screen generator used to render a ship or object invisible to the eye and to most sensor systems. This is accomplished by gravitational lensing, the creation of a distorted image of an object when it's light is focused by gravity. In the case of a cloaking device, the light is focused so that the object's index of refraction (the phase velocity of radiation in free space divided by the phase velocity of the same radiation in a specified medium) matches its surroundings, making the object transparent. Cloaking a ship requires precisely balancing the radiative emissions from the warp drive nacelles, dissipating all electromagnetic radiation, gravitational fields and other energy emissions emanating from the ship, and distorting space in such a way that electromagnetic radiation and energy emissions are directed around the ship through subspace at velocities faster than light.
Cloaking devices have been classified
into the following categories according to their overall
effectiveness:
Mk 1 Cloak: Original usage, early Warbirds only. Used
electromagnetic radiation shielding quite effectively to cloak
only visible and near-visible radiation. Can instantaneously
cloak and decloak, but required large amounts of power.
Mk 2 Cloak: A major improvement on the Mk 1, this device cloaked
all electromagnetic radiation, except high energy Gamma rays. Can
instantaneously cloak and decloak, but was remarkably
inefficient. Craft: Romulan Scouts and Warbirds, also Klingon D-7
Cruisers, and later the joint Romulan/Klingon scout and Bird Of
Prey.
Mk 3.0 Cloak: The first gravity distorting cloak. The early
prototype craft had problems with energetic effects occurring
inside the cloak as a result of trapped spurious thermal
emissions within the cloaking field. This was overcome by giving
the craft a green coloration. This tuned the thermal energy to a
frequency where it could leak very slowly through the cloak
without revealing the ships presence, still common practice on
most cloaked vessels. This early Mk 3 had only the spherical
field setting and could not be effectively wavemapped. It could
not instantly cloak and decloak, but saw much use on most Romulan
craft and the Bird Of Prey.
Mk 3.1 Cloak: This improved device featured instantaneous
propagation of the spherical cloak, and first saw use of the
wavemapped cloak. It is reported to have been used as above and
as an upgraded cloak for D-7 Cruisers. A green coloration was
still necessary.
Mk 3.2 Cloak: This version saw the creation of the fine tuned
cloak, using the special dedicated computers. This device was
perhaps first created by the Klingons, but required large power
reserves. The Romulans later reworked the idea into a more
efficient form (officially designated the Mark 3.2a). The old
cloak is still in active service on older Klingon craft.
Mk 3.2a Cloak: Romulan reworking of the 3.2. No special
coloration of the craft is necessary, although the nullifier
cores require less energy when the ship has a green color. The
cloak is still extensively used by Romulans and Klingons alike.
Mk 3.3 Cloak: This latest version allowed powering down of all
non-finely tuned cloaks instantly. It is only fitted, as far as
is known, to Romulan Warbirds. Klingons claim to still use the
3.2a.
Experimental Mk 4 Cloak: There is an experimental cloaking device
which utilizes a highly-wavemapped, adaptive, asymmetrical
dispersion pattern. This cloaking device's cloaking generator
coils are equipped with field actuators that change the
dispersion pattern, to be most efficient in any interstellar
condition, considering many variables, such as gas density,
electric and magnetic fields, and fluctuations in the subspace
domain. These field actuators compensate for any of these
variables or active scans if the vicinity of the cloaked ship is
being probed. There is no danger of a spatial ripple occurring.
This would render a ship undetectable, except with a tachyon
heterodyne detection grids, which, if powerful enough, could
detect a ship that was cloaked in this manner.
Find more about the cloaking device at the Cloaking Device Technology
Romulan ships do not make use of matter/antimatter reactors like most vessels but instead of that they make use of an quantum singularity drive. The Quantum Singularity Reactor is one of the greatest Romulan acheivements. Quantum singilarity is the same what happens in a black hole. This so called artificial gravity well can generated a tremendous amount of energy which gives the ships their thrust. An quantum singularity reactor can only be shut down at a docking station due to the fact that it cannot be restarted in space. The reactor itself houses a singularity: a point in space where the laws of physics supposedly break down. What happens here is that matter is continuously fed into the singularity. The gravity from the singularity pulls the matter together, forcing it to not only fuse, but to bump into each other, etc. This causes an enormous amount of energy to be obtained, and we never have to worry about fuel: it is all around us. It is not only more efficient then matter/antimatter drive but also much more powerfull. One of the problems that Federation scientists have had with artificial singularity reactors is that they simply cannot see how the ship can move with this masssive gravtiational anamoly within the heart of the ship. The solution, although the Federation is too egotistical to realize it is that we use the same thing that they do to control gravity: we place a Inertial Dampening Field around the reactor. This way, we trick the ship into thinking the reactor isn't even there at all. This way, our ships are even lighter than Federation ships, allowing us to move faster and respond more quickly to external stimuli. Indeed, this process releases the equivalent of a standard Federation Matter/Antimatter Reaction Assembly.
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