Romoni

Romoni are a nomadic, space-fairing "race". They were displaced sometime during the Mage Wars and initially began their traveles aboard Runarin spacecraft. They are no longer a homogonous race, having gathered refugees and other similar groups over the ions, to the point where, while widespread throughout the Known Worlds the Romoni are reguarded as the only such race of space nomads.

history

The Romoni were probably an un-advanced, low-tech culture during the early Dynastic Period of the Mage Wars. The Runarin historical archives indicate that they may originally have been called the Lothala. The Runarin record of the Lothala says that they were loaned several dozen starcraft in order to relocate their civilization and escape Marconian rule. The Romoni took the ships and captured several others, and became a space-fairing people.

Throughout the Mage Wars, they survived by carrying out raids against the other technologically-advanced cultures of the era. The M'KHararen Empire gave them a number of ships over the years in an attempt to curb the raids, and eventually drove them from M'KHararen space. By the beginning of the Golden Age, the Romoni had shifted to trading and mining.

During the Golden Age, the Romoni became the subject of romantic poetry and literature. However, among those that actually had to deal with them, the Romoni were well-known as the scourge of the galaxy. There shrewd traders, they cheated, they stole, and the lied. They ignored existing mining claims. Anything unmanned - from supply caches to research stations - was fair-game for them to steal. When Romoni fleets descended on an inhabbited solar system, they effectively ignored all laws and would work their ways until forcibly displaced.

In the late Sixth Age, the Romoni somehow gained control of a perfect copy of the Roger Young, the [{Foundation]]'s largest Mercury Ship. In the battle that followed, the original and the copy were lost in a gas giant, along with the Cleopatra(a much smaller Mercury ship).