By the end of the 24th century, the Romulan Free State had updated its warbird designs to this new model - a finned, segmented attack vessel armed with powerful disruptors, its belly decorated with a painted bird-of-prey. Though these ships saw use throughout the Romulan Free State, more sinister actors also put them to work - when the secretive Zhat Vash triggered an assault on the synthetic planet of Coppelius, over 200 of the new Romulan Warbirds joined their genocidal fleet.