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On Romulus, Praetor Tal’aura began rationing food and limiting replicator use to keep the resources reserved for the military campaign against Donatra, but this didn’t sit well with the starving people on Romulus as riots broke out lasting for two days. On the second day Tal’aura ordered troops to break up the riots, resulting in over 2000 deaths. With unrest growing on Romulus, Tal’aura pulled the puppet strings on her loyal Senate to help restore order. The Senate voted to expand Tal’aura’s powers even further, giving her the power to revoke noble status and even declare war without approval from the Senate.

In an effort to retake the worlds taken by Donatra, Fleet Commander Tomalak completes his plan for attack and on Stardate 60900.31 he carried out his orders to assault Donatra’s fleet, but Tomalak was decisively defeated and betrayed by his second in command, Admiral Taris who defected to Donatra’s side. After Tomalak’s defeat, he was removed from his position by Tal’aura and replaced by Commander Sela, a human-Romulan hybrid and descendent of Tasha Yar.

The Romulan defeat at Xantila cripples Tal’aura’s ability to wage an open war against Donatra. With the lingering Klingon threat, civil unrest, and supply shortages, Tal’aura reluctantly agrees to negotiate with Donatra’s Imperial Romulan State and establish borders of a new neutral zone. Tal’aura again rejects the Federation's offer to mediate the talks. Donatra sends Admiral Taris to the Romulan capital as her representative in the negotiations with Tal’aura.

In a twist of events, on Stardate 61602.00, Tal’aura was discovered murdered in her chambers. The Tal Shiar investigated and rumors of who carried out the assassination filled the capital.

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