Polis Romulus

[Einya trAeolix 0]

Ambassador tr’Aeolix sat calmly in his chair, as his transmission with Romulus ended. It seemed that since he’d taken his position as Ambassador to Cardassia and Aegis he’d spent very little time doing that job, and a very large amount of time on the comm net with his homeworld.

 

Since the Shinzon-incident, which had seen the coup of the ruling Continuing Committee and the death of many high ranking members of the Senate, had left a power vacuum that had quickly been filled by a number of reformers, but also the rise of hard-liners who’d be pushed to the back burners by the moderates who’d been nearly obliterated in the coup.

 

Granted such shifts of power were not entirely new on Romulus, in fact internal strife had been an accepted and omnipresent factor in all Romulan politics since the very first far-travel ships set foot upon the Romulan soil thousands of years before; this however seemed somehow…different.

 

The Tal’Shiar, who’d been rebuilding ever since the disaster in the Gamma Quadrant in the weeks leading up to the Dominion War, had proffered greatly from the destruction of the Romulan “center” of politics. In fact, one of their former leaders was considered to be a challenger for the Praetorship, something thought to be unthinkable before the Dominion War.

 

Despite this internal strife the Romulan Empire found itself in a position to rise to galactic power, and both sides involved were well aware of this—and upon that, they were united.

 

Looking over his notes he stood, straightening his uniform he stood and headed towards the exit of the Embassy, it was time he and the good Admiral had a talk.