well it seems that while elysium continues to advance europe is lagging behind. since when they contact the Elysium army again, it will be centuries more advanced compared to the European one since it seems that it even has its first panzer.
and socially I can't even tell you how handsome it will be when the Christian missionaries arrive and fail to convert anyone, the frustration of the church will be capital.
well it seems that while elysium continues to advance europe is lagging behind. since when they contact the Elysium army again, it will be centuries more advanced compared to the European one since it seems that it even has its first panzer.
and socially I can't even tell you how handsome it will be when the Christian missionaries arrive and fail to convert anyone, the frustration of the church will be capital.
well it seems that while elysium continues to advance europe is lagging behind. since when they contact the Elysium army again, it will be centuries more advanced compared to the European one since it seems that it even has its first panzer.
and socially I can't even tell you how handsome it will be when the Christian missionaries arrive and fail to convert anyone, the frustration of the church will be capital.
seeing that it will be the middle ages they will still say that it is a thing of the devil that good Christians should not imitate the witchcraft of the pagan Elysians
seeing that it will be the middle ages they will still say that it is a thing of the devil that good Christians should not imitate the witchcraft of the pagan Elysians
Which is obvious since the Church will be jealous of how successful this pagans are. I mean their technology and existence alone is a threat to the power of the Church because it undermines their legitimacy to the eyes of their "blind" followers. Why these people are pagan, yet advanced in technology and become successful? Aren't this pagans considered uncivilized barbarian that needs to be brought under a one true Christian God?
Caesar Paterculus came to the curule throne on the heels of the largest war North America had witnessed in centuries. His adoptive father had outdone herself by pitting tribal kingdoms against each other and taking advantage of the chaos she caused had run its course. Meanwhile to facilitate more efficient collection of taxes and provisions and to help enforce the law, he provincially reorganized the Empire.
Pistorius Mica left behind a wealth of written works for Elysean engineers, presenting hundreds of new mechanisms that could be copied for new machinery. Among these were the crown wheel escapement, various epicyclic gears, bevel gear, worm gear, belt drive, glass sandpaper, pendulum, torsion spring, scissor mechanism, and screw nail. Tools invented by Mica include the circular saw, belt sander, screw-cutting lathe, screwdriver, brace and bit, scissor jack, crowbar, churn drill, and spirit level. The tools and machines created by Mica lifted the mechanical tradition of Elysean engineers into the stratosphere. When someone from the Technaeum published a catalogue of mechanisms in 1830 AUC, he enabled easy study and replication of these tools in future engineering. Unfortunately, the sheer number of illustrations in the catalogue made it infeasible to print copies. Nevertheless, the Technaeum had about a dozen copies and by 1839 nearly a hundred other copies were circulating elsewhere.
One of the most significant inventions in the wake of Mica's prolific life was the mobile field mill, a horse-drawn carriage which milled grain for feeding an army as it marched. Limited by animal power, the field mill functioned by a tilt hammer powered from the rotation of the wheels of the cart, milling grain without slowing down the army. After improvements on the design, the Legion began to deploy the machine from its fortresses for soldiers going out on patrols into the newly conquered territories. The main inspiration for this device was likely the carriage odometer that accompanied every legion to measure the distances they traveled outside the empire. These odometers had been used for centuries in mapping Europe, measuring roads for the milestones, and surveying construction sites with unmatched speed and precision.
For the navy, one engineer invented a dirigator (magnetic compass) that was suspended neither by rope nor in water. Instead, his compass needle was suspended by a pin to a board and this board was kept level, even on a boat, by a gimbal (a device in common use by mariners for keeping liquid vessels, such as inkwells, level even in rough waters). His compass was dry unlike a water suspended needle and could be read more accurately, using a windrose drawn onto a board behind the needle. Navigators saw tremendous benefits from the more practical design, allowing easier reading of absolute bearing while performing other tasks. Unfortunately, the ability to maintain a constant bearing was not combined with the availability of maps that represented lines of constant bearing (as in, constant angle of motion relative to the direction of magnetic north).
In 1845, carpenters working on assembling testudae for the Legion invented the scissor lift for raising and lowering the assembly as they worked. These lifts derived from the scissor jack that Mica invented to assist in the repair of carriages. Like the jack, the height of this lift was varied using a metal screw turned by a large T-shaped bar. With Mica's screw-cutting lathe, blacksmiths in cities large enough to have a demand for screws could easily carve metal screws of various sizes, including for scissor jacks. Although this new device did not see extensive application, it was useful in several niche areas such as vehicle manufacturing.
Of course, military engineers and craftsmen were not the only innovators in the empire. A surgeon teaching at the academy in Septimia invented the scissor forceps in 1853, an improvement over the more cumbersome clamps used to stop bleeding before these arterial forceps were invented. Another surgeon adapted the water-powered circular saw to his practice as a bone cutter, replacing the commonplace handsaw in some of the larger galenariae (hospitals). High speeds were achieved using high pressure water pumps and a low gear ratio, giving the saw the capacity to cut through thick bone.
Around 1844, the first rotary winnowing fan was developed on farming estates owned by the middle class. These machines reduced the effort required to separate the wheat from the chaff after a harvest and introduced more mechanization into Elysean agriculture, alongside the horse-drawn mechanical reaper, water-powered mill, and ceramic irrigation pipelines. By this time, the agricultural process in civilized parts of the empire vastly exceeded outputs in nearby kingdoms, often yielding double the amount of produce for every acre of agricultural land. However, the efficiency of Elysean fields had more to do with their reliance on a three-field crop rotation than with advanced machinery.
Throughout the late 10th century, miners in Irocois found copper ores that could not be smelted normally, instead sickening the smiths who tried to extract the copper. For this reason, the place of its occurrence gained a bad reputation, drawing the attention of geologists from the Lyceum. By 1857, they had determined that the supposed copper ore was unlike any other ore known to the academy, meaning it must have contained some previously undiscovered arrangement of the seven elements.
Geologists faced the same problem refining the pseudo-copper ores into metal that had troubled the miners and smiths. The locals who originally discovered the ore shared their views on the matter - that the devil had corrupted the copper in their mines, leaving it in a poisonous and unusable form. For this reason, the geologists took to calling the new ore Metallum Superbus (arrogant's ore), despite not taking the people's stories at face value. Eventually, a white metal was smelted from the arrogant's ore and the Lyceum shared the techniques that they discovered for properly smelting the new metal.
Interest in the ore dwindled after a few years. The metal (nickel) became more commonly known as Diabalum (nickel) and got used for jewelry due to its similarity to silver and resistance to rust. Trade brought nickel necklaces and bracelets to every corner, with merchants often ascribing them magical properties based on the stories of the locals who forged the jewelry. For the time being, nickel became an uncommon but recognized metal in the Elysium world.
Caesar Paterculus, seeing the extension of the current Empire, saw the need for a provincial administrative reform. For five years, Imperial officials and territorial planning departments worked extensively on possible new provinces. These expansions ended up materializing in the following territories listed below.
Sorry if it seems sloppy, but a friend suggested I do it based on the tribal territories and when I saw them it was literally a bloody horror to draw.
1. PS: The bahamas are managed by province 9.
1. Provincia Imperial - Capital: Augusta Elysium.
Fusion of the Provincias Augusta Elysium and Nostra.
2. Provincia Hibernia - Capital: Fluvius Finis.
Fusion of the Provincias Hibernias.
3. Provincia Terranova - Capital: Civis Terranova.
Territory of the Island of Terranova.
4. Provincia Nova Caledonia - Capital: Portus Viridis.
Territory of Nova Caledonia.
5. Provincia Nova Liguria - Capital: Civis Septimia Severus.
Territory of Nova Liguria.
6. Provincia Lenape - Capital: Civis Mohawk.
Territory of Lenape.
7. Provincia Appalachia Superior - Capital: Civis Nova Olisippo.
Fusion of the Appalachia Superior and parts of Appalachia Occidentis.
8. Provincia Appalachia Inferior - Capital: Civis Persici.
Fusion of the Appalachia Inferio and parts of Appalachia Occidentis.
9. Provincia Hispania Maritimae - Capital: Nova Alexandria.
Territory of Hispania Maritimae.
10. Provincia Magnum Fluvius - Capital: Portus Magnum Fluvius.
Fusion of the Provincia Magnum Fluvius and parts of Appalachia Occidentis.
11. Provincia Irocois - Capital: Civis Aguntum.
Territory of Irocois.
12. Provincia Dacotas - Capital: Civis Centolacus.
Territory of Dacotas.
13. Provincia Magnum Lacus - Capital: Civis Aquincum.
Territory of Magnum Lacus.
14. Provincia Ursi Tellus - Capital: Caronto.
Territory of Ursi Tellus.
15. Provincia Caociana - Capital:Civis Caocia.
Territory of Caociana.
16. Provincia Neronia - Capital: Neropolis.
Territory of Neronia.
17. Provincia Kiowanus - Capital: Civis Kiowa.
Territory of Kiowanus.
18. Provincia Dinania - Capital: Civis Dine.
Territory of Dinania.
19. Provincia Transheraclidae - Capital: Civis Ute.
Territory of Transheraclidae.
20. Provincia California Superior - Capital: Aureum Ostium
Territory of California Superior.
21. Provincia California Inferior - Capital: Colonia Caesaropolis Maritimae
Territory of California Inferior.
22. Provincia Silvania - Capital: Diocletianopolis
Territory of Silvania.
23. Provincia Flavia Caesariensis - Capital: Colonia Ulpia Commodona
Territory of Flavia Caesariensis.
24. Provincia Superi Caesariensis - Capital: Nova Venetia
Territory of Superi Caesariensis.
25. Provincia Faunina - Capital: Colonia Mandanus
Territory of Faunina.
26. Provincia Fauninus - Capital: Civis Sascaton
Territory of Fauninus.
27. Provincia Hibernia Maritimae - Capital: Castra Escimo.
Territory of Hibernia Maritimae.
28. Provincia Cuba - Capital: Colonia Fabia.
Territory of Cuba.
29. Provincia Taino - Capital: Portus Taino.
Territory of Taino.
1. Provincia Imperial - Capital: Augusta Elysium.
Fusion of the Provincias Augusta Elysium and Nostra.
2. Provincia Hibernia - Capital: Fluvius Finis.
Fusion of the Provincias Hibernias.
3. Provincia Terranova - Capital: Civis Terranova.
Territory of the Island of Terranova.
4. Provincia Nova Caledonia - Capital: Portus Viridis.
Territory of Nova Caledonia.
5. Provincia Nova Liguria - Capital: Civis Septimia Severus.
Territory of Nova Liguria.
6. Provincia Lenape - Capital: Civis Mohawk.
Territory of Lenape.
7. Provincia Appalachia Superior - Capital: Civis Nova Olisippo.
Fusion of the Appalachia Superior and parts of Appalachia Occidentis.
8. Provincia Appalachia Inferior - Capital: Civis Persici.
Fusion of the Appalachia Inferio and parts of Appalachia Occidentis.
9. Provincia Hispania Maritimae - Capital: Nova Alexandria.
Territory of Hispania Maritimae.
10. Provincia Magnum Fluvius - Capital: Portus Magnum Fluvius.
Fusion of the Provincia Magnum Fluvius and parts of Appalachia Occidentis.
11. Provincia Irocois - Capital: Civis Aguntum.
Territory of Irocois.
12. Provincia Dacotas - Capital: Civis Centolacus.
Territory of Dacotas.
13. Provincia Magnum Lacus - Capital: Civis Aquincum.
Territory of Magnum Lacus.
14. Provincia Ursi Tellus - Capital: Caronto.
Territory of Ursi Tellus.
15. Provincia Caociana - Capital:Civis Caocia.
Territory of Caociana.
16. Provincia Neronia - Capital: Neropolis.
Territory of Neronia.
17. Provincia Kiowanus - Capital: Civis Kiowa.
Territory of Kiowanus.
18. Provincia Dinania - Capital: Civis Dine.
Territory of Dinania.
19. Provincia Transheraclidae - Capital: Civis Ute.
Territory of Transheraclidae.
20. Provincia California Superior - Capital: Aureum Ostium
Territory of California Superior.
21. Provincia California Inferior - Capital: Colonia Caesaropolis Maritimae
Territory of California Inferior.
22. Provincia Silvania - Capital: Diocletianopolis
Territory of Silvania.
23. Provincia Flavia Caesariensis - Capital: Colonia Ulpia Commodona
Territory of Flavia Caesariensis.
24. Provincia Superi Caesariensis - Capital: Nova Venetia
Territory of Superi Caesariensis.
25. Provincia Faunina - Capital: Colonia Mandanus
Territory of Faunina.
26. Provincia Fauninus - Capital: Civis Sascaton
Territory of Fauninus.
27. Provincia Hibernia Maritimae - Capital: Castra Escimo.
Territory of Hibernia Maritimae.
28. Provincia Cuba - Capital: Colonia Fabia.
Territory of Cuba.
29. Provincia Taino - Capital: Portus Taino.
Territory of Taino.
I doubt it as their size is now far bigger then original Roman Empire and most likely as population is expanding they will have harder time controlling said empire and there is fact by now their enemies are most likely by now learning from Romans and they are evolving their technology.It would interesting to see how rest of America has changed thanks to Romans
I doubt it as their size is now far bigger then original Roman Empire and most likely as population is expanding they will have harder time controlling said empire and there is fact by now their enemies are most likely by now learning from Romans and they are evolving their technology.It would interesting to see how rest of America has changed thanks to Romans
Iceland and Greenland were never very populated and not difficult to integrate. Also you're underestimating the industry, resources and logistics needed to emulate them.
Edit - Long term I'm wondering what kind of interactions they'll have with Africa/Asia. Their general geography and high population makes it VERY difficult for europeans to truly invade them as well.
No. Precisely because they are not interested. The climate is too harsh for their current standard of living and in a week they can get from Newfoundland to Greenland by Ship.
If want leaks can enter in the discord and give me ideas. (I am spanish, not US-born or mexican.)
No. Precisely because they are not interested. The climate is too harsh for their current standard of living and in a week they can get from Newfoundland to Greenland by Ship.
If want leaks can enter in the discord and give me ideas. (I am spanish, not US-born or mexican.)
Sure the climate is harsh, but are they not the only places that are on the way to the new world that the romes know of? and island is far from europa, but they should be able to reach europa from it, so better to control then allow someone else doing it, it would not have to be a place that people live at, only the army and navy so vikings and europa kingdoms cant claim it, and it could be use for trade with europa
We should also remember that the Elysians are capable of tracing their family back far longer then most/any surviving European now house of the European dark age.. the prestige alone will be valuable
"When we Elysians step into Italy and Rome. We only have this: a sense of melancholy and euphoria. Seeing the city of marble built by our ancestors for the first time gives us the sense of pride that we Elysians were proud for, built an empire that lasted through the passage of time. At the same time, sadness, for the ruins of Rome, were nothing but painful reminders of our once great empire. The Colosseum, the grandest symbols of Rome, was nothing more but a beautiful ruin full of shameful display. It's people tore it down for stones and quarries in exchange for the pride they no longer believe in. The aqueducts were in disrepair. It's temples were converted to churches, to spread the blasphemous ideas of the Pope. The Forums, a place of civilized discussion, now in ruins, replaced by the rhetoric and lies spewed by the church.
The Europeans thought that we have perished, nothing more but a once proud empire that brought light to this world. Revering a once glorious past that they themselves destroyed. But we have survived, we have thrived, and we have been longing for our return. So long as there are Elysians, there is Rome. As long there is our Emperor sitting on our throne, there is Rome. So long there are our reminders and relics of the past, there was indeed a dream called Rome.
The Light of Rome is still here, and it has not yet perished"
THE LIGHT OF ROME - NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE ELYSIAN EMPIRE
