Empty Chair

The Empty Chair was a seat in the Rihinsu (Or Romulan) senate which (until 2276) was always kept empty in memory of S'Task the leader of the exodus from Vulcan long centuries before. On the seat lay the Sword of S'Task the last of five legendary weapons forged by the smiths of Vulcan's Forge over five thousand years before, and carried into exite by the Rihinsu.

In 2276 the sword was removed by (then renegage) Commander Aei of the warbird Bloodwing. This sparked the Rihinsu civil war which ended with Aei's installation as Empress in late 2276. During this event the senate and the Empty Chair were destroyed. There does not appear to be an empty Chair present in the senate as of Nemesis.