Vice-Proconsul

The Vice-Proconsul was a high ranking position within the Romulan government.

The vice-proconsul assists the Proconsul in the actual day-to-day running of the Imperial Romulan Senate, and handles many of the minor details the proconsul may not have time to deal with personally. While some vice-proconsul are quite content to serve in a secondary role, most see the office as a step toward becoming proconsul themselves. Many proconsuls have served as vice-proconsul in their time, and the job makes a traditional stepping stone to the highest office in the Senate.

When the vice-proconsul belongs to a different coalition than the proconsul, as is currently the case, the vice-proconsul serves one additional purpose. He keeps watch on the proconsul and helps to keep him in check, looking out for the interests of the vice-proconsul's own coalition to see that the proconsul doesn't compromise them. Such an arrangement usually happens when two coalitions form an alliance to share power in the Senate and shut out other, smaller coalitions, as is now the situation with the Jaridian and Nej'adar Coalitions.

Vice-Proconsul Louris actually has more experience as a Senator than Proconsul Kota, but senatorial suspicion of the Jol Tan Coalition prevents him from overawing the young Kota. Kota had originally aligned his faction with the Nej'ahar, but the defection of Vice-Proconsul M'ret badly damaged the Nej'ahar Coalition and forced Kota to rank himself openly with the Tal Shiar. Romulan politics is still in a state of flux, and no senator knows what new coalitions will spring up in this time of new foriegn adventurism and tension abroad.

(Last Unicorn RPG: The Way of D'Era: The Romulan Star Empire)