The Gulf Legion

The Gulf Legion was what remained of Caesar's Legion after the 2nd NCR-Legion war, with the NCR prevailing and defeating the Legion at the 2nd Battle of Hoover Dam in 2281. With most of the Legion's leaders dead, except for Vulpes Inculta and Legate Lanius, both disappearing into the wasteland. The bulk of the Legion fled west into the Legion territory known as Gaul (Colorado and Utah). Exanguis Juvencus, one of Caesar's top Frumentarri led a contingency of legionaries into Mexico where he would stake his claim and consolidate his forces. Before the defeat at Hoover Dam he was known as Corniger Taurus, but after the defeat he took upon a new title as the defacto leader of the Legion's remnants outside of Gaul. After Exanguis Juvencus went missing in action in 2290, Legatus Vindicta took charge of the Legion's remaining forces in Mexico, which were quickly cornered in Tampico and its outskirts. In 2290, the faction was dismantled with the Treaty of Tampico.

## History

After the Legion's defeat at Hoover Dam, the NCR slowly began to overrun their lands. The enigmatic successor of Caesar, known only as Augustus, attempted to rebuild the Legion and dispose of his political rivals. During this time many of the Legion's top military leaders were brutally murdered as a result of political infighting and schemes. In this disorganized state, the NCR pushed into what was once known as the Four Corner's of Caesar's Table, which included the territories of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. The Fort fell, then Flagstaff, then Phoenix, and with Red Sun City's fall, the Augustus's Legion officially was defeated. The Legion's leaders were all dead or gone, and the Legion scattered into the winds, most of them were killed or buried their former identity as a legionary, and the rest fled south with Exanguis Juvencus, a Frumentarri for Caesar's Legion. While nominally loyal to Augustus initially, Juvencus, along with other Frumentarri prepared to betray Augustus, abandoning him to suffer Californian justice. Before the Legion's crushing defeat in 2286 at the siege of Sun City, Juvencus and his Frumentari allies took the bulk of their surviving legionaries southward.

Juvencus had convinced the surviving legionaries that it was through his wit that Caesar's vision and the legion would survive. According to Juvencus, Augustus was no true Son of Mars and his defeat was inevitable. As they traveled southward from Gaul, they destroyed every settlement in their wake, crucifying every civilian regardless of their perspective of the Legion. They traveled until reaching the Gulf of Mexico, and began to establish a new Legion. Their ultimate goal being to eventually return to Hoover Dam, avenging the death of Caesar, Lucius, Aurelius of Phoenix, and the Legion as a whole.

They quickly took over the large trading citadel of Tampico and began to establish a new citadel for their Legion. Exanguis began to re-establish the ranks of the Legion, forming a new Frumentarri and appointing a new Legate. The new Legatus Vindicta began to act as the new Legion's military leader while Exanguis focused on building a powerful economy of slavery. The first order of business was to take over large trading cities nearby. Their first target was a city of profligates, Ciudad Victoria.

The gangs and cartels of Ciudad Victoria mostly dealt in Chems, Vices like prostitution, and weapons. They were the perfect target to make an example of the profligates of "Mexico", with the gang's leaders on crosses, burning in the sun, the lesser profligates would learn who they would kneel to.

After an example was made and towns that didn't kneel were torched, the Legion had been rebuilt, stronger and angrier than ever. They began to plan for their conquest of Mexico, intending to take a majority of South Mexico, but before they began their attack, they were contacted by a mysterious general from the East. This "General Muñoz" requested audience with Exanguis, he intended to come with 2 bodyguards and his top advisors, and would arrive in Tampico.

The invasion of Mexico was put on halt to speak with Muñoz, and after speaking, they learned of a large nation in Cuba, Muñoz wished to forge a trading alliance with the Legion. Exanguis agreed, on the condition that Muñoz's cartels refrain from trading chems and other substances to Legionaries and in Legion territory. The NCA began to funnel weapons into the Legion along with food supplies in exchange for slaves, and they formed an uneasy military alliance. The Desert Republic declared war on the Legion and the 3 Principles as a whole, and the Legion has been slowly losing.

In 2290, Exanguis went missing under unknown circumstances. Many legionaries were demoralized from this loss and quit, scattering into the wastes. Legatus Vindicta took the reigns of the remaining Legion forces, which were cornered in Tampico. After NCR and Desert Republic soldiers stormed Tampico and won, they executed the Legion's leadership for war crimes and dismantled the Legion in the Treaty of Tampico.

## Relations

* The New Cuban Authority

The Legion is in a military and trade alliance with the NCA.

* New California Republic

The Legion's entire goal is to defeat the NCR, retaking Flagstaff and the Hoover Dam after the conquest of Mexico. The NCR Monterrey Expedition is at war with the legion.

* The Desert Republic

The Legion is at war with the Republic.