A Braver Alexander Severus ( I need to get a more catchy name for the TL)

Wow Alexander Severus is really kicking ass.

I was just wondering what Alexander's relationship with the Senate is ? Is it still the much more devolved set up of Alexander's regency where the Senators took a much more direct role in running the empire and implementing policy? Or are things settling back into the Severan model of standard military dictatorship?

As for an appropriately epic cognomen what about Para Trajan (meaning greater than or equal to Trajan) in the vein of Paracelsus.
 
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I'm tired so today only a mini-update

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Happy Days

After is great victory agaisnt the Allamani, Alexander went to Rome were he celebrated another triumph. His triumph was spectacular and at the end the senate, lead by Cassius Dio, recently saved by the Emperor. The senate bestowed the new title Magnus Optimus (the best of the great as my latin dictonary tells me). The relation between Cassius Dio and the Emperor was well know and Cassius Dio dedicated is book to " My good friend and best emperor Alexander". Another happy new quickly followed as the empress Sallustia Orbiana ( her father was never a usurper in the TL and she wasn't exiled) gave birth to twins named Gaius and Julius and became know by theirs cognomen, Germanicus and Persicus, in honor of his father triumph in Germania and Persia. The following years are a bit obscure, mainly because Cassius Dio writings about it were lost, but we know that Julia Mamaea died in 238 (she lasted three more years) and she was gave a very nice funeral.
 
Reforms

As Alexander entered into his thirties we was a good general, excellent lawyer and a good orator. After his sons were born he moved to the capital and spent the next years raising his sons and to reform the empire.
Persicus and Germanicus were growing up nicely and becoming intelligent and serious young men.
The first reforms were about the army. Soldiers who had served a full time were sent to the new provinces in the east were new land was available and Alexander tried to create a new generation of soldiers, not used to excessive bribes to remain loyal. In order to calm the old and demanding and to give experiance to his new soldiers he ordered that anual raids should be done in Brittania past the Antonine wall and in Germania.
The 16 years from the birth of the twins were among the most peaceful in Roman history. Speaking of the twins which were now 16 were sent to brittania to participate in a military campaign against the uncoquered north.
Their forces were composed of the three brittanian legions, plus two Rhine legions and numerous auxiliariaries from all corners of the empire.
Helping the twins with the campaign was Gnaeus Aquila, one of the best general distinguested in the Rhine and Eastern campaigns with Alexander (who was staying in the capital). The preparations for the conquest of the North took two years of soldier transport and a new fleet was created, now know as Brittanian fleet.




So what do you think, who was expecting a Brittanian campaign

Comments are welcome as are maps
 
Reforms

As Alexander entered into his thirties we was a good general, excellent lawyer and a good orator. After his sons were born he moved to the capital and spent the next years raising his sons and to reform the empire.
Persicus and Germanicus were growing up nicely and becoming intelligent and serious young men.
The first reforms were about the army. Soldiers who had served a full time were sent to the new provinces in the east were new land was available and Alexander tried to create a new generation of soldiers, not used to excessive bribes to remain loyal. In order to calm the old and demanding and to give experiance to his new soldiers he ordered that anual raids should be done in Brittania past the Antonine wall and in Germania.
The 16 years from the birth of the twins were among the most peaceful in Roman history. Speaking of the twins which were now 16 were sent to brittania to participate in a military campaign against the uncoquered north.
Their forces were composed of the three brittanian legions, plus two Rhine legions and numerous auxiliariaries from all corners of the empire.
Helping the twins with the campaign was Gnaeus Aquila, one of the best general distinguested in the Rhine and Eastern campaigns with Alexander (who was staying in the capital). The preparations for the conquest of the North took two years of soldier transport and a new fleet was created, now know as Brittanian fleet.




So what do you think, who was expecting a Brittanian campaign

Comments are welcome as are maps

Nice I just want too ask once all the conqured mesopatamian land has been fully occupied and romanized will the soldier's sationed their become greedy and sinful like in the other provinces or will their be other reforms to limit a possibility of that happening?

I think a britannic campaign would be pretty cool:)
 
probably will see some erm.. uprisings in the east

and get ready for the general Caledonicus and the twins caesar Brittanicus
(Persicus Brittanicus and Germanicus Brittancus)
 
Brittania and Reforms

In the dawn of 246 the Brittanian campaign was going very well after the Romans had defeated the main Caledonian army and drive them to the Highlands were they continued to hide. Discovering that he couldn't defeat all the Caledonians in one battle because they wouldn't show up the General Aquila decided to make a "siege" of the Highlands, controlling the main roads to the South and blockin the sea, cutting off any suplies from the Caledonians. After several months of cruel winter the Caledonians that hadn't died either fled through the blocade in small ships to Hibernia or surrendered to the Romans. With this escape in mind the biggest leader of the Caledonians, Know by his latin name of Ballista organized a resistence movement with many Hibernian Kings and started raiding the newly incorporated province of Caledonia. Aquila, Persicus and Germanicus were annoyed by this movement and Started to prepare for an invasion of Hibernia.
Meanwhile back in Rome the Emperor Alexander wasn't just resting he was trying to improve the empire and reform it. One of his biggest plans was to try to "cure" the disease that had runned deep in the army, the hunger for huge amounts of money. He made this to his Persian veterans by settling them in Mesopotamia and he planned to settle Allamanian and Britannian veterans in Hibernia and Caledonia and then creating a new generation of soldiers, not used to get much money.
In Hibernia he invasion happened in 250 with two legions and a huge fleet. The campaign started bad for the Roman as some ships were set ofcourse by a storm and ended in an unknown island baptized Vita island (otl Mann). The island was inhabited by a large number of people but hadn't a big army so the acidental conquest of Vita island occured. But as this happened in Hibernia the Legions were attacked with guerrilha attacks that were not much effective but were extremely annoying but the Caledonians and Hibernians, thinking that the legions were now weak attacked in a traditional land fight and were severaly defeated. The Hibernian highest chief died but Ballista had escaped and took refuge in the swamps. The rest of the campaign was hard do to both constant guerrilha attacks and diseases, having the commander Persicus died of one unknown disease in 253. In anger do to the death of his brother Germanicus attacked the base of Ballista and captured him throwing him from a 150 metre high clif in the west of te island.
The conquest of both Caledonia and Hibernia were great news and Alexander quickly started his program of settling the veterans and Germanicus was bestowed with the Caledonicus and Hibernicus title and he and Aquila held a triumph in Rome. Germanicus was then sent to Hibernia to be the new governor and creating a new provincial bureocracy
 
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