Just put a headquarters on Romulus and have some method for reporting
cards. You can use one or both of
Office of the Proconsul and/or the
Continuing Committee.
Personally, I think you will get a way better deck using:
(1)
Temporal Conduit to move between the time location and report
personnel,
(2) One of either of the two Romulan headquarters,
(3) Drone control room
Than you would using:
(1) Protect the timeline played on
(2) Drone control room.
Yes, it's one extra seed card and you need to put a card under your deck each time you time travel but Drone control room has fewer native personnel than any other time location, such that you are almost FORCED to use a third card,
Spires of Romulus to expand the number of native personnel you can play there, anyway. The pool of talent you get from using one of the Headquarters is going to be better than the pool of personnel you get from Spires of Romulus because more of them are unique and have quality skills and attributes.
Plus, with no protect the timeline, you aren't limited to using other free reporting mechanisms.
In fact if you really need to play Sklaar on Turn 1, you should seed
Battle of Narendra III and
Hall of Magistrates, use the hall's download to put
Prosecutor Orak into play and then use his special download of
Internment to download
Sklaar to hand.
If you aren't using Protect the timeline on drone control room and aren't using any non-22nd century time locations you can then use Hall of Magistrates to report some
personnel to help your Romulans out. (You can even report Sklaar himself there for free, then play
Raptor One in orbit of Narendra III on turn 1 and move him to Romulus if the two locations are close enough on the spaceline.)