Northern Rome

Marcus Valerius

**Northern Rome**, originally the **Northern Legion**, are from the Fallout: New Vegas mod, Fallout: The Frontier. Unlike Caesar's Legion, they are more "liberal" as they educate and utilize pre-war technology.

## History

In the mod, the Northern Legion was a branch of the Caesar's Legion controlled by Legate Valerius, who occupied the east portion of Portland and resided in Ostia. By conquering local tribes, letting natives scavs join in, having more "liberal" views towards mass education and utilizing the pre-war technology found in the Frontier, the Northern branch became quite a successful force in the region. However, the changes in culture and tactics brought the attention of Mojave frumentarii sent by Caesar who feared Velarius may have changed too much of their ways and thus became a threat to the Legion itself.

Yet by the time the United Nations & Creations were founded, they were booted out alongside the NCR Exiles and the Crusaders of Steel into a new world known as, Usonia. But even in this new planet on the continent of North Columbus, they had to fight against old enemies such as the nation of NCR Exiles and the Crusaders of Steel's own nation, New Mormon. Upon this continent, they discovered that this land is similar to the world they left behind yet without all the radiation. Even the creatures are the same.

In the center of these three nations, there is a prize. A prize too tempting and the three have been fighting it till a stalemate. The prize is: Archimedes II, a very powerful satellite with all of its advance technology inside that is closely guarded by many of the creations. However, the prize is too tempting for anyone that want to try and claim the pre-war treasures.

As such, they completely ignore any request about joining other factions as they were busy setting up their own nation while also dealing with the other two enemies they have. Unlike the other two, they aren't receiving any exiles or pilgrims to help reinforce them.

## Government

The government claims to be a totalitarian dictatorship under the rule of its own Caesar, Marcus Valerius. But in truth, it functions more of a republic under a monarchy. Quite similar to the Roman Republic of ages pass, but it had a diarchy. And unlike the Roman Republic, this particular Rome follows a merit system. One can use their merits to climb to the top to get into the highest ranking in society. A slave, after doing some deeds and being educated, can become a legate in Northern Rome.

## Culture & Society

Much of Northern Rome is modeled after Caesar's Legion yet there are a wide amount of differences. First, there is a great degree of education that even the slaves are being taught and educated in agriculture, surviving, and using pre war technology. This also includes engineering and mechanical work in order to build and maintain their own form of vehicles such as motorized chariots. These chariots use a car engine with another car part with less weight to them with much of the original frame and parts removed. Not only do they provide mobility when on the battlefield, they also provide entertainment such as chairot races. However, they also use tanks for extra firepower.

Women can even join in on the fighting and some even are promoted as far as legate. Chems such as stimpacks are also being made by a different caste of slaves that have been educated in chemistry and medicine, unlike Caesar's Legion that used more barbaric forms of treatment. Another caste of slaves are also in-charge of making the medieval armor and weapons that were found in Ostia that have proven useful but made from different alloys that should prevent much damage to the wearer from bullets and strike harder. There are even a special caste of slaves that is dedicated to repairing, maintaining and using the pre-war technology such as plasma and laser weapons while having robots work alongside them.

When a slave have done a certain amount of deeds, they are then promoted to something equivalent of a merchant that runs a guild. However, only those that serve in the military are allowed to take part in politics.

## Military

The military of Northern Rome is the Northern Legion (no duh). Unlike Caesar's Legion; they have women in their ranks, using pre-war technology, and even utilize vehicles. They use plasma weapons, laser weapons, and other high tech weaponry to overpower their enemies. They use motorized chariots for mobility and speed when dealing with hit-and-run tactics along with overwhelming small, primitive tribal warriors. They even have tanks for extra firepower with one tank called, "The Beast of the North" being the main tank when leading the charges along with artillery strikes. To make things even more interesting, they also wear armor similar to medieval European knights yet the rest of their equipment such as helmets are still that of Roman Legion soldiers.

Despite the additions and some new tactics, some of them use some of the old tactics from Caesar's Legion along with a few from other sources.