Romulus Romulus was the inhabited second planet of the Romulan system in Sector Z - 6 ; it was the homeworld of the Romulan s and the capital world of the Romulan Star Empire . Romulus was destroyed by the Supernova of 2387 . The Romulus system . The planetary system consisted of the primary Romulus and two unnamed moons . ( ) Location . During the Neutral Zone Incursion of 2266 , the location of the Romulan system was labeled on a map of Sector Z - 6 that was displayed on the bridge viewscreen of the . ( , " production art " ) In 2293 , the location of Romulus in the Milky Way Galaxy was labeled in a star chart that was in Captain James T . Kirk ' s quarters aboard the . ( , " okudagram " ) In 2374 , the location of Romulus vis - à - vis the Cardassian - Romulan border was shown on a graphic display in a holo - simulation . According to the simulation , Dominion and Cardassian forces would reach the planet within one day of crossing the border via the Glintara sector . ( ) Historical . In the 4th century , a group of Vulcan s left their homeworld and settled the planets Calder II , Dessica II , Draken IV , Yadalla Prime , and Barradas III . This civilization , called the Debrune , was regarded as a predecessor of the Romulan Star Empire . After their odyssey , which lasted for centuries , the Vulcans finally reached and settled Romulus . ( ) In 2256 , Captain pointed out to Michael Burnham that , while experiencing the possibilities of the mycelial network , a traveler might blink and , before they knew it , they had " missed " Romulus . ( ) " In an alternate 2258 , Christopher Pike was held hostage aboard the " Narada " after the Destruction of Vulcan , though he tried to assure Nero , who had witnessed Romulus ' destruction in 2387 , that Romulus , as of then , still existed in that timeline . " ( ) Kor had led an attack on Romulus prior to 2372 , which Worf had been told about when he was younger . ( ) During his time as an Obsidian Order operative , Elim Garak worked at the Cardassian embassy on Romulus as a gardener . He claimed the dominant color there to be grey . ( ) In Grathon Tolar ' s forged holoprogram , a hologram of Weyoun stated that the Founder s believed that they would be on Romulus in less than three weeks after a Dominion invasion . ( ) During the Dominion War , injured Romulan soldiers were taken to Romulus for treatment , until Senator Kimara Cretak successfully persuaded the Bajoran s to let them establish a hospital on Derna . ( ) In 2375 , during the Dominion War , Romulus hosted a Federation Alliance conference . ( ) The Female Changeling promised Thot Gor control of Romulus if the Breen " fought well " at the Battle of Cardassia . ( ) In 2387 , a star close to Romulus went supernova , endangering the entire galaxy . Ambassador Spock created a red matter singularity which consumed the star , but not before the supernova reached Romulus , destroying the planet , bringing the fall of the empire . ( ) " In the original future ( c . 2395 ) experienced by Jean - Luc Picard in 2370 , Romulus and the Romulan Empire had not been destroyed by a supernova , but were conquered by the Klingon s . Romulus was cut off from the Federation , except for the occasional medical ship s allowed through to help stop an outbreak of Terrellian plague . A new future was created by Picard in 2370 . " ( ) Political . Romulus and Remus were the major worlds of the Romulan Star Empire . The capital city of the Romulan Star Empire was located on Romulus where the Hall of State was situated . The Imperial Romulan Senate met there in the Senate chamber . Geographical . Romulus appeared as a temperate planet , which harbored numerous large bodies of water . Although both planets orbit ed their central star , Romulus and Remus were often referred to as twin planets . Appendices . Background information . In Roman mythology , Romulus and his brother Remus were known as the brothers who founded the city of Rome . Romulus became the first king after killing his brother . The relation between the planets of Romulus and Remus reflects this . See Romulus and Remus . At a Creation Entertainment " Star Trek " convention in San Diego , California on , Marina Sirtis jokingly revealed she had renamed Romulus to " The Bad Hair / Bad Clothes Planet " . A view of the surface of Romulus was depicted on several viewscreen s on Deep Space 9 ' s Promenade and Replimat , including in . In several episodes , Romulans have been mentioned to have a presence in the Alpha Quadrant . In , Romulus is shown as being only one day away from the Cardassian - Romulan border . This , along with numerous other DS9 references , places Romulus and the Empire clearly within the Alpha Quadrant . Despite this , a graphic placing the Romulan Star Empire in the Beta Quadrant made a brief on - screen appearance , as a display graphic on a PADD in . The information on the PADD , though , was completely illegible on screen . The script of ' s likewise referred to Romulus as being in the Beta Quadrant , in a line of dialogue which is not in the final edit of that film . Production Designer Herman Zimmerman commented in about his work during : " " The Romulans have possessed advanced technology a lot longer than the Federation , so the look was a combination of art deco and medievalism meets high tech . Most of the designs were inspired by Italian designer Carlo Scarpa . " " Regarding exterior design of the Senate area , designer Syd Dutton said , " " [ Director ] Stuart Baird wanted us to think about , the architect who did all the conceptual drawings for Hitler . Speer took that national socialist idea to a ridiculous extreme where everything was huge and classical [ . . . ] The Romulans are a people who live in a marshy area . They had little houses on stilts around mudwork . The mudwork became part of this central core and that was where the old part of the city – the Forum and Senate buildings – was located . As the city expanded going away from that , the buildings became bigger and more technological . " " Reference works . In virtually all reference works , Romulus and the Romulan Star Empire were depicted to be located in the Beta Quadrant . These books included such works as " " ( p . 2 ) , " " ( p . 9 ) , " " ( p . 20 ) , " " ( p . 27 ) , " " ( pp . 45 , 55 , 56 , " et al . " ) , and " " ( " Beta Quadrant : Local Space Extract " and " Federation Historical Highlights , 2161 - 2385 " ) . Even reference works that date back to a time before the Alpha and Beta Quadrant distinction was invented depicted the Romulans in the area that was later classified as the Beta Quadrant . These included such works as the " Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual " ( T0 : 02 : 07 : 00 ) and " Star Trek Maps " ( Chart A ) . According to the , the Empire also included space in the Alpha Quadrant . The fact that shows Romulus as being only one day away from the Cardassian - Romulan border renders the aforementioned reference works inaccurate , since none of them show the Cardassian Union and Romulan Empire with a mutual border . According to " Star Trek Maps " ( Chart D ) , the two moons of Romulus were called Megara and Amyclae . According to " Star Trek : Star Charts " ( pp . 55 & 66 ) , the official name for this planet was Romulus . It was an M - class planet located in the Romulus system and was the capital of the Romulan Star Empire . The planetary capital was also named Romulus . The dominant species were the humanoid Romulans . In 2378 , the population of this world was estimated to be eighteen billion . The ancestral homeworld of the colonists , Vulcan , was warp - capable in 320 AD . Approximately fifty years later , these ancestors left Vulcan at the time of the Great Awakening . This planet was located in the Romulan War Theater of Operations ( 2156 - 2160 ) . According to " Stellar Cartography : The Starfleet Reference Library " ( p . 34 ) , the Romulans , who referred to themselves as Rihannsu , called their homeworld ch ' Rihan . In their ancient language , which was a derivative of High Vulcan , they called the planet Rom A ' losh ( " Raptor ' s Nest " ) . Apocrypha . In her novelization " Unification " based on the TNG episodes and , executive producer Jeri Taylor gave the name Dartha as the capital of Romulus . However , as of the subsequent novel " Vulcan ' s Heart " by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz , Pocket Books " officially " standardized Ki Baratan as the name for the Romulan capital . In the " Rihannsu " novels , Romulus was called ch ' Rihan and Remus was ch ' Havran , and the Romulans were the Rihannsu ( all of which being their names in the Romulan language ) . Remus was said to be the more temperate of the two planets . Also , Romulus was said to have at least four moons . In FASA ' s RPG sourcebook " The Romulans " , Romulus was called Rom ' lasz and its full system name was Stelam Rom ' lnz IIA . In Last Unicorn Games ' RPG sourcebook " The Way of D ' era " , Romulus was called Rom ' laas or Ket - cheleb III . In " " Romulus was called Rom A ' losh , which translates as " Raptors Nest " . The comic book series " " , a tie - in to the 2009 film , gave further detail about the destruction of Romulus . The supernova which destroyed the planet was identified as being in the Hobus system ; Nero and his crew were mining in that system at the time of the star ' s first eruption . Prior to the destruction of Romulus , Spock attempted to warn the Romulan Senate that the supernova posed a threat to both the planet and the entire Romulan Star Empire , but was rebuffed . In the video game " Star Trek Online " , the supernova that destroyed Romulus was intentionally caused by a faction of Romulans following the orders of the Iconian s . The game ' s backstory , which included the " Countdown " comics , also explained the physical impossibility of a star in another system destroying Romulus with no possible evacuation time by stating that the supernova ' s shock wave propagated through subspace at faster - than - light speeds ( implied in game to be the result of the manner by which the nova was induced ) .