Romulan Falconet Series
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By Shawn Gordon (Avrolancaster) on Saturday, September 18, 2021 - 05:09 pm: Edit

I was reading Captain's Log 40 and came across an interesting tidbit.

The Klingon F5W appeared too late into the war to sell to the Romulans, since the Alliance had already completed Operation Wedge by the time the Klingons produced enough to sell to the Romulans, and the Coalition's Operation Nutcracker was a failure. By the time of the Andromedan war the Romulans had become such a basketcase country that they were on the verge of collapse if not assisted. The Federation, Klingons, Tholians, and Gorns cooperated to bring the Romulans up to strength so that they would not be annihilated by the Andros. Part of this effort was assisting the transfer of Klingon ships to Romulan shipyards for conversion.

To quote the relevant passage:

Quote:

The end of the General War found the Romulan Empire in a much weaker state, its economy devastated with the disaster at Remus, and made even worse by the internecine struggle of Rolandus's attempts to restore the Empire. While the Inter-Steller Concordium's pacification campaign did little additional damage, the Andromedan conflict was a major drain on the already depleted economy. While no formal anti-Andromedan alliance existed, the Federation, Klingons, Gorns, and Tholians all recognized that a collapse of the Romulan Empire would only serve Andromedan interests. Simply providing the Romulans with economic support would not do as its remaining ship construction capability was already operating at maximum capacity. So it was agreed that the best help would be to provide the Romulans with additional warships. As the Romulans still had a limited ability to support ships of Klingon manufacture, the Federation and Klingon Empire shared the costs to provide a few squadrons of Klingon ships to the Romulans in Y192. (The Gorns and Tholians simply agreed that something needed to be done to bolster the Romulan defenses and did not interfere in the transfers.) Among the transferred ships were several F5Ws (the precise number is not known, but it was probably fewer than ten).



So, my proposal is that the Federation provides obsolete hulls to the Romulans in this period of cooperation and reciprocity. The Federation FF has the same size engines as many Romulan ships (Gryphonhawks, Jayhawks, K4Rs, KF4s, Seahawks, etc). It is conceivable that (especially with Federation help and support) some of the ships transferred in Y192 could be of Federation construction. By using Plasma-Fs (which the Federation have access to) instead of heavier plasmas the Feds could even help pre-convert them for Romulan use.

I'd say that by Y192 the Federation would have FFs, FFGs, and maybe some cutters, that would be of better use in Romulan hands. Swapping the Photons for Plasma-Fs, swapping the drones for Plasma-Ds, shuttles, or Ph-1s, and giving them cloak brings the conversion all or almost all of the way there.

I think that the series of Federation-Romulan ships would be limited to SC4 hulls, since although the Y190s are a new era of cooperation between the various empires, I imagine the amount of heavy units that the Fed is willing to trust the Romulans with is close to zero (maybe maybe an old CL could get approved for transfer, but even that's pushing it in my opinion). I think something like 4 frigate hulls and 4 cutters would be about right.

The proposed series would be "Falconet" to mirror "Kestrel" since falconets, like kestrels are a type of falcon. Also, Falconets are small birds, and the ships transferred are small ships. Falconet also starts with "F" for Federation, just like the kestrels start with "K" for Klingon.

A proposed naming scheme could be:

POL = FCU
FF/FFG = FFF
CL = FCL
etc.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Saturday, September 18, 2021 - 05:26 pm: Edit

Shawn Gordon:

Engine size on an SSD is not an indication of Technological compatibility. The transfer of Klingon ships to the Romulan empire in the period made use of the earlier transfers and the Romulans had some experience working with the designs. This would (while attempting to provide useable hulls) technically further worsen the Romulan Logistic situation by adding a new line of spares and replacement parts to keep the ships operational.

By Shawn Gordon (Avrolancaster) on Saturday, September 18, 2021 - 07:01 pm: Edit

Oh well

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