Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
The Dominus-class support carrier was designed and launched in the 2350s as a light troop transport and rapid response cruiser, suited for reinforcing Imperial positions on planets rebelling against Romulan rule. Since the Romulan Star Empire returned to the galactic stage in 2364, however, the Dominus' role has only expanded. With contact with the Dominion raising tensions throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, the Dominus now carries a compliment of the Imperial Navy's new strike craft, deploying them into battle to swarm and overwhelm the Empire's enemies.
Despite its newly appointed role, however, the Dominus has by no means given up its duties as a light troop transport. The Dominus carries a full company of highly trained Romulan soldiers, trained and equipped to board and take over enemy vessels, or to annex lightly defended neutral outposts in the Empire's name.
While no warbird, the Dominius is a well armed, cruiser sized warship, fully equipped with pulse disruptors and plasma torpedoes, and protected by the Romulans' characteristically powerful shields. Especially useful is the energy focusing array in the Dominus' 'beak', which can be used to channel energy directly into the shield grid of a nearby friendly ship, effectively replenishing its shields. With these features, the Dominus is set to continue in its position as one of the Empire's most useful ships.
My Imperium Alliance will take a dozen of these, and Three dozen Shrikes for boarder patrol.
Is this also a complete new model or does it just look different for me because of the bad angle/view?
Always wondered about the Roman theme going on with the Romulans (including their very name). Surely it must all be localization on the part of the Federation. They don't literally name themselves after some thing from ancient human history, right?
Of course then you get to the Reman nonsense...
I wondered that my self how did the Romulans know about the Roman Empire or is it just sheer coincidence that they have similar names and such.
In the time of TOS Starfleet's big adversaries, the Klingons and Romulans, were designed to be very roughly analogous to various human cultures or states. The Klingons, for example, in the beginning were basically space-Soviets, and they transitioned over time to resemble Celts, Saxons, Vikings, etc.
The Romulans, obviously, were loosely based on the Roman Republic/Empire. Their name, their use of an eagle as a symbol, their government and their penchant for political intrigue etc., these are all based on stereotypical Roman culture.
But in-universe, it must all be the Federation seeing a culture with a lot of Roman-like attributes and using Roman terms for them. Presumably the Romulans don't actually call themselves Romulans, don't call it the Senate, etc. I assume that names like D'deridex are a taste of the actual Romulan language.
Unfortunately the Romulans don't have much of a language in the alpha canon. However in the novels the Romulans called themselves Rihannsu. But in the actual shows and stuff they refer to themselves as just Romulans.
It could be the Federation naming them that but the Klingons in their own language call Romulans, romuluSngan while humans are tera'ngan.
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