This part of a recent post from @Dante tiggered the Galactic Empire's fanboy that is inside me, unleashing parallelisms between Octavian and Palpatine. Of course, there are also a lot of differences not only between the two, but also between their "contexts". And here comes the challenge (If you dare to accept it.): produce an ATL in which the Principate follows roughly the same path of Palpatine's Empire and many historical figures of the time are "fixed" to look like characters from the Saga.