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Disclaimer: this is not an attempt to troll or propose ASB stuff.
The great genius of Octavian was to transform the Republic, with all of it's civil wars and upheaval, into something that could provide the stability needed for the empire to stay together. All of this he accomplished while walking that fine line of absolute power dressed with republican trappings.
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.

You don't have to 100% respect the canon: TTL's Luke being son of TTL's Vader (Which, I suppose, is going to be an alt-Agrippa.) and anything like the Death Star existing (Unless you have an idea about how to destroy an entire city with only one weapon around 0 BC/AC.).
Also, if someone who's expert in Latin could find a translation for 'Luke Skywalker' it'd be fantastic.
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