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Also, Vulcan conquest seems recent with the level of existing rebellion within the society, with T'Pol being too young to have participated in the war. It is totally possible that he is referring to the founding of the political movement that Cochran eventually allied with. As to whether or not his statement that the Terran Empire had existed for 'centuries' by 2155 was accurate or propaganda by the government is unclear. With a 'mostly' consolidated world government already on a war footing, and a pipeline of redeveloped alien tech MirrorTerra would set out to conquer, with a handy map of the local resources/civilizations provided by the Vulcans.Īrcher would have grown up in a society that knew only conquest, either planetary or interstellar. And whoever takes control would likely style themselves on the roman model, like the Russians (Czar), Germans(Kaiser), and other conquering nations did. With Vulcan tech, Cochran and whatever government he allies with could quickly consolidate global power. Possibly stemming from a limited understanding of the underlying physics their newfound technology. Also, we see from MirrorTrip's comments that TerranTech does not value the lives of the crew as Prime universe does. On top of that you have billions of humans still in the recovery phase after WW3, a massive interstellar warmachine, even with NX-01 comparable ships, would be an economic boon, with the side benefit of dealing with overcrowding. By the time the Vulcans do send someone to check in human tech capability could have been closing on Vulcan tech. With the Vulcan Science Vessel the MirrorHumans could have had years to reverse engineer and learn from the Vulcan tech.

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In prime timeline, Vulcans held back technology, not allowing humans full access to their ships or devices. 90-some years of such a singular global agenda could produce very profound results. weren't just acting as technology-stealing pirates but were actually interested in understanding and improving upon the technologies they captured.

Consider the 'Samaritan Snare' episode with the Pakleds, except the T.E. had come in contact with other space-faring races, similarly assimilating and reverse-engineering their technologies (as well as conquering militarily weaker species), before they attempted to take Vulcan, that would further increase their odds of success. After all, it took Japan only about 50 years between being an insular society utterly helpless against European military technology, to developing a modern military and actually defeating the Russian Navy and Army in the Russo-Japanese War.Īlso, remember, the time it took for United Earth to catch up to the Vulcans was prolonged as the Vulcans intentionally held back technology, wanting to give humans time to advance culturally before becoming a space-traveling power.Īdditionally, if the T.E. Given these two things, it's not inconceivable that in 92 years, the Terran Empire could catch up to the Vulcans enough militarily to conquer Vulcan. Except, the Terran Empire had the additional benefit of reverse-engineering Vulcan technology. did during the Cold War, when they perceived the USSR as an existential threat.

Because they saw First Contact as a prelude to a Vulcan invasion, they engaged in a period of rapid technological R&D, just as the U.S.

The Terran Empire didn't immediately launch an attack on Vulcan with just the Phoenix and 1 commandeered Vulcan science vessel.

The concept of a mirror universe in general, and especially its depiction in ST, makes very little sense, but if we suspend our disbelief a bit, a case might be made that:

So we don't know what technological differences there were between the prime and mirror timelines by the point of First Contact. I'd lean towards the theory that the timelines diverged long before First Contact, and that the Empire may have its roots in the Roman Empire (Terran is derived from the Latin word for Earth, Kirk given the title 'Caesar,' etc.).

There's very little direct info on the Terran Empire's birth in canon.

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