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Terra Dominatus

February 15, 2013
By Hayden Proudmoore SILVER, Colfax, California
Hayden Proudmoore SILVER, Colfax, California
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The Roman Empire was formed when the great Julius Caeser took throne as Emperor. Throughout history empires rose and fell; civilizations prospered, cities flourished, but always, eventually, they came to an end. All except for the Roman Empire, the Empire of the world. Slowly the Romans expanded and grew in power. They became the most powerful civilization on the face of the planet, no one stood up to them. Most people rejoiced to join the empire, even often opting in to do so for fear of a forceful conquering. When a society was admitted into the Empire, whether by choice or force, it was required to send the greatest thinkers and scientists to work in the great city of Rome, which towards the end of the 17th century came to hold up to one eighth of the worlds population in one massive super-city. The scientists and thinkers were hired for the betterment of the Roman Empire. This tactic of collecting all the worlds greatest minds into one city allowed technology to advance extremely quickly; making the Roman people indomitable.


By the 18th century the Roman Empire had grown cover to most all of the known Eastern Hemisphere, in the year 1846 they focused on the Western side of the world. Now, in the year 1850 the Western Hemisphere is being conquered forcefully having not submitted to Roman Empire’s offers to assimilate. The Roman Empire, currently led by Emperor Vitellius, eagerly deployed the new technology of that time. They shipped weapons that had never seen battle there, to get some field testing done. They experimented with weapons such as poisonous gas, flame throwers, machine guns, tanks, bombs, airplanes, guided missiles and even early nuclear technology. As the Empire floods across the lands they’re met with heavy resistances from the Western people. Most of the rebels see the Empire as pure evil, they would rather die than be ruled by them. Naturally, this makes conquering them difficult, being forced to slaughter most of them.


The Westerners hide in their cities thinking they’re safe behind their walls, the only problem, the walls were built to defend from primitive attacks. But now a new type of artillery is being produce, able to hit towns from miles and miles away, punching through their archaic defense easily. Cities that didn’t surrender at the first sign of the Romans were bombarded into submission, or more often into extinction. The Roman war machine left a trail of rubble, misery and destruction in their wake. Roman domination went from the Tribal nations in the South to the central medieval kingdoms and even all the way to the industrialized civilizations in the North. Any cities located on the coast to the East were quickly demolished by the massive, highly advanced Roman fleet. The Roman army struggles to stay organized as they push westward towards the more highly populated areas of this new world.


With them, the Roman’s also brought new diseases to the new world such as Small Pox. These spread across the land faster than the armies could, decimating certain civilizations. Although the Roman’s had an infinite number of advantages, the Roman general’s had a very difficult time commanding such a large assault. They failed to successfully set up adequate supply lines leaving some parts of the Roman Empire ill equipped and starving. The experimentation of new weaponry was also an advantage, but at the same time a disadvantage. The new technology often broke in use, ambitious new nuclear weapons the worst of these. Some of them left whole areas uninhabitable and entire armies irradiated and mutated.


Commander of the Army of the new world was Lucius Cornelius Nero, a headstrong and ruthless young man convinced he was chosen by God to lead the Roman Empire into victory. He had no problem sending thousands of men to their deaths, he felt no guilt slaughtering millions if necessary. Nero was a born leader, although he was inexperienced and overconfident. Even as some natives fled from the armies, to more remote areas they were not safe. Nero would never stop so it seemed, not until every person on this planet either kneels before Rome, or dies before it.



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