Thread: Nixum by Emperor Nero & Ash Durn

Nixium was a grand city of the empire. The City of Snow. It had been built on largely unclaimed ground in Near the Barring Strait. It was a sixth Generation city, planned from the ground up. As Most Neo Roman cities , It was a domed city. The Dome was made out of C2, Artificial Diamond. It Protected the dzenis from the elements, made the city to be a perfect temperature year round. It also protected the city from nanite attack, pollution, maintained the right amount of solar and cosmic radiation. The Dome was simply massive. Standing at slightly more than a mile at its peak, The Radius of the dome was thirty miles wide, and went out into the water some ways. There were other domes close by for pure agricultural use. The City itself was Still new. It was taking people from all over the empire, as well as new people coming in from other Files. In Recent years the Empire had been by far the fastest growing of all the files. After the fall of civilisation, almost a hundred years ago, the world had become so much more corporate. Corporations controlled, and ruled EVERYthing. Few Governments survived the collapses, and none of them were super powers. Companies ran Burbclaves, small sections of towns, with outsourced security forces. From the Enforcers, who had a contract with protocol. General Dave and Admiral Bobs Defense Systems. But this system was simply not sustainable. Corporate wars broke out, people started fleeing in tribes, alliances were formed. In the late 2020s there was a problem with the Reverend Wayne, as well as the ITC International Telecom Company That caused basicly every religion, other than the Episcopal Church, and the Catholic church to collapse. Even though it was still within the age of information, it was impossible to figure out what exactly happened, So many impossible things had happened on the city ship known as the Raft , no one could quite separate reality from fiction. The one thing that was known, is that independent of the culture, the most fervent believers and worishpers all Fell to the phenominom simple known as Babbel, They became incoherent , and went to the Sea forming the cult known simple as the Drummers. There were still Drummers in the world, but they had never been a power, they were incoherent and there methods were strange. And few knew exactly where new Drummers came from. The Episcopal Church, being lead by the King of England was one of a few groups that had the power to fill many voids, and lead much of the Western world into a New Victorian age, eventually to be led by queen Victoria the Second. Do to its world wide nature, focusing on the Atlantic Costs of the United state, british isles , and the united states, they named there File New Atlantis. They had a strict social code , Emphasized self denial, non emotionalism, and hard work. They were highly selective of who they would take into there ranks. EXTREMELY classist. But still very successful. The Mafia was probably the oldest of what could be considered a File, and were the most open, the most free. Sure they had a Hierarchy, they were without class, Every member started at the bottom and worked there way up through the organization. They were good at infiltration, management. But they were also unwieldy, They were very good at reaction, but poor at planning. They were powerful simply through numbers, having control of the bulk of north america and Europe . They were not innovative, instead ran traditional business , security forces, service industry, some agriculture, but had almost nothing in the way of R and D. They were the Anti Nippon. Nippon was pure technology, everything they did had something to do with information, and selling that information to other files for what they needed to import. Nippon was the last Standing Corpocracy, Its largest saving grace was its control of the most common currency in the world. The Crypto Currency known simply as NeoYen, Actively using several means to keep the general value of the currency constant. For readers, and to not get into a dissertation think of a single yen worth about a penny in todays currency The Han were Isolationists , Controlling Much of what used to be China, other than Parts of the southern content, including Hong Kong. No one ever knew what the Chinese were up to, other than rumors of vast starvation corruption, and blaming the west for every one of there problems. The Coastal Republics were a special zone however. There were many Cities from all files, Micro claves , and were ran by a more powerful version of the CEP , beholden to the normal CEP. This region was commonly thought of as the richest place in the world, other than the Capitals of the great Files. The Romans ... Ahh The Grand Empire. It had Started so Small, so Long ago, It had started almost as a Joke. Washington DC was the last City still being ran by the falling of the United states government. Sure there were enclaves of the government all over what used to be the united states at the end. But no one really knew why. By the time of the founding of the Empire it had been twenty years since the corps stopped recognising the authority of the government. Sure there were still people that had a twisted sense of loyalty. They worked impossible schedules under constant surveillance for low wages. By the End they were treated worse than the old citizens of the North Korean Despots. The Capitol was falling apart do to a lack of funds, and the goverment had decided to enslave the Feats, the vast majority of people in the world at that time, who were not a part of a File perse. Of course the Feats did not put up with it, and the weak security that was supposed to enforce the enslavement fell quickly. The Feats Sacked the Senate and had stabbed the president to death on the white house lawn within hours of the declaration. With Blood and Body parts of old senators and Congressmen in the Capital building still pressent, The empire was formed. It was ment originaly simply to be deffense of the city from evil files, such as Meta Zania, or the NarColumbians from taking it. They Called themselves Romans as a Joke, wile they searched for anyone who was responsible to take over the city. The Neo Victorians wanted nothing of it do to the impropriety of the rebellion. The Maffia , thought the cost of protection and repairing the city too high. The Nissan Samsung Company was in the process of becoming Greater Nippon. They were on there own. They studied the other Files, and took the best parts of all of them, and formed a new , old way of thinking. There would be a class system, but there would be ways to grow, and shrink in it. They put emphasis on education, and hard work, and responsibility to the state that the victorians had, without there strict social structure. As poor people of a fallen city, who had been rejected by the world, they provided an easy way to garner acess to becoming a roman at any level. Within Ten years no one in the world used Washington for the name of the City, it had become New Rome. They had an elected emperor, and a senate. They had separate responsibilities, and seperate ways of becoming that level. The Different classes Had different rights and responsibilities. The Emperor, Or Empress Was responsible mostly for the military of the Empire. Vast Wealth was at the hands of the Royal family. However this was an elected position from the Senate, and almost always chosen from the ranks of the Senate, It was a life time position. The Senate could Revoke that however, by Killing the Emperor. The Senate floor the Emperor was not allowed guards, or weapons, Senators were. But the Senator or Senators who did that were supposed to be in turn killed for their actions. There were Two Different levels of Senator, but for the most part they were Equal. There was the City Senate, Members of the File who were wealthy bought there way into it. They were responsible for appointing city managers, dealing with legal matters, Judges Jurors for major crimes. And city planning, as well as appointing an Imperial Senator to live in New Rome. They had wide marked privilege, but also responsibility. It was not cheap to be a senator, as they were pressed hard to provide bread and circus, as well as sponsor The military. Most Senators sponsored a Centurion Legion, 124 for Militants, as well as some major Pieces of military hardware. They also typically sponsored a Fire Company, as well as the Constabulary of the section of the city they lived in. The Equestrians were Executives , Highly rich people but not wealthy enough to be Senators, they typically provided much smaller donations to the Empire, but more to the city. Citizens were Wealthy professionals who provided more local. Plebeians were the People, people who were poor but free, your higher blue collar workers, or simply people who had partons in the higher classes. Than there were Slaves. Slaves served a ton of different roles in the society. From street cleaners, minor blue collar unskilled work. apprentices, household slaves for a variety of functions. As well as Sex slaves. Entertainers were also in the slave class. Slaves were not attached to money, slaves could be rich, but stayed that way for various legal reasons to do with what they wanted to do. Slaves had contracts for when they sold themselves, rules and conditions. There were several general rules, Slaves could always buy their way into Plebian hood and fixed rates, If the Slave had been trained to have special skills , it would be more expensive. Slaves could also always choose to give up being a slave, and be forced to leave the File. Slaves were not Cattle, they had rights and privileges. A master was expected, and required to take care of her. The Romans lived a fairly lax lifestyle. They used Nano Technoligy to provide most basic foods, but luxury goods that were actually grown could be acquired. There was manufacturing in every city. There was a roman Aesthetic to everything, and Roman Cities were built to weather the ravages of time. Lots Of Diamond, and artificial hard rocks. They Used Feeds for Matter Compilers, devices that could build many things on the atomic level. But not everything was possible to do in the MC, as well as most stuff felt better that wasn't from an MC, it had that certain undefined characteristic. Cars were mostly banned from the city, most people got around via the Trams, but some rich people could afford Chevalines, mechanical horses. As well as the occasional person traveling by Sedan, being carried in a Box with a chair by several slaves. And there were some real horses in the city, both to be used in sex games, as well as for special circus and parades. The Romans were always having some sort of festival, and put a high value on art, and artists, and crafts people. The weather made loose clothing natural, and they had few, if any real taboos against sex. The two most people could actually think of is that rape was a crime, and that the product of inbreeding could not become a senator or emperor. There were often Orgys, public sex was widly available, and it was rare that a bar would not also be a brothel. A.. Unique aspect of roman life were the Baths. Every neighborhood had one, they were free to all. All had good healthy food free to all, all had pools for bathing, exercise rooms, massages, a general spa that every one used every day. Only the most luxurious houses had a private bath, and it was considered poor form even then. Every one was expected to spend two hours a day in the baths. Every City had a Bazaar. A general Market for all sorts of goods, near the center of the City, typically outside of the grand Bath house. Beneath the Bizzar for general goods, was the Slave Catacombs. Slaves that were for sale from there previous owners, typically newly trained in some skill, and awaiting placement. But more often There were Feats, mostly young people who had come from nothing, and wanting to become Roman. They were well taken care of, and could be for sale for as long as it took, the Empire willing to take on taking care of any one for ever. Slaves for sale were not however allowed to leave the Catacombs. They had there own bath that was nowhere as nice as even a neighborhood bath. Dark uncomfortable rooms, and the Cheapest of Cheap food. Little in the way of entertainment. Saturday was the day that new comers were brought into the Catacombs. They had several starting times for opening the market. Senators were given first crack everyday, opening for Each class other than Slave going down. New comers needed to be free to do so, not indebted to a legal contract of another file, or be escaping famly responsibilities. But for the most part, any person 15 or older could become a slave. And Today a New Senator who wanted to Train slaves as his avocation, was looking to take his first girl. The Senator had Been indoctrinated on Monday into the Senate, Had Commissioned his Guards of the Eagle for his part of the city. Inspected it. He had paid for an additional 100 blocks to be built in the city, with his Villa in the center. Enough room for an additional 30,000 people to join the city. He was a Rich Atlantean who didn't want the lifestyle any more. He had been leaving the Atlantans for almost a year as he commissioned and planned his neighborhood. There were people ready to move in and make it home. It wasnt long into his travels into the catacomb that he found a girl he was interested in. She had been here for about four days, having grown up in an Enclave of Seattle, on her 15th birthday had walked straight to the recruitment center, and had been sent to rome . She was pretty, Small, blonde and young. Slaves were allowed clothes, but she was in nothing. She was happy, smiling, wearing the iron collar attached to the wall, awaiting some one to inspect her. She was excited. She wanted An older man, a rich man, a kinky man. She also wanted an Education . Her Price for service , as she was selling herself. Was that Her master pay for her primary, secondary, and tertiary school. She could be a person on there way from being a Slave to being an Equestrian.