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Inspired by this discussion:https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-octavian-or-caesar-restored-the-monarchy.230615/ and Velasco's excellent After Actium TL. One of the problems I've found with the early Roman Empire is the position of Emperor itself: it wasn't a formal office but a collection of titles voted to the holder by the Senate. That created problems with inheritance and succession. Then the other strange thing to me is the way the Senate and the ruling elite bent over backward creating more and more unique offices to give the Emperor instead of using the one office that bound everything up into one: that of the King or Rex Romae. Now I know that historically Rex was supposedly a dirty word for the Romans but is that true for the entire populace or just the Patricians/Senators? What would have happened if either a surviving Caesar or Augustus had decided to revive the Kingship (under a suitably Imperial title of course, like Great King or King of Kings)? Instant civil war? Assassination attempts? Or would the exhausted people acquiesce to the restoration? Please discuss!