Having suspended "Sons of Neptune" due to having made a key mistake which renders most of the timeline rather unaccurate, I've decided to write a different one, having considered several potential scenarios that I would be interested in writing about:
1.- Between Scylla and Charybdis: POD in 88 BC, as Lucius Cornelius Sulla dies at the battle of the Coline Gate, leaving Pontius Telesinus's Samnites to burn and sack Rome after betraying their Marian allies. The aftermath sees a civil war without a clear leader to end it, forcing Optimates and Popularis to rethink their approach.
2.- The New Hannibal: POD in 78 BC, Lepidus's revolt is still defeated, but he fares well enough to take a larger force and join Sertorius instead of mysteriously dying in exile. Significantly stronger than in OTL, Sertorius goes onto fighting a far more succesful war against the Senate to return to Italy and crush Sulla's legacy once and for all.
3.- Of Auctoritas and Imperium: The POD is in 47 BC, being that Julius Caesar dies during the Siege of Alexandria, leaving the Republic in a very difficult situation as Pharnakes of Pontus invades the East, Mark Antony is the unpopular Master of the Horse in Italy and Cato reorganizes the uneasy coalition of Optimates and Pompeians in Africa to resume the war.
4.- In Defence of the Republic: There are two POD's here from 43-42 BC, first being that Cicero escapes the OTL proscriptions to join Brutus, second that Brutus doesn't ask Cassius to come north too soon, leading to Cassius and the Liberatores invading Egypt to dethrone Cleopatra. All of this results in a very different campaign against Octavian and Antony.
[FONT="]5.- Hail Sejanus: POD in 30 [FONT="]or [FONT="]31 [FONT="]AD[/FONT]. Sejanus learns of [FONT="]Tiberius's plans to make him fall from [FONT="]power with the he[FONT="]lp of Ca[FONT="]ligula and Macro, and launches a counter-coup of his own to overt[FONT="]h[FONT="]row the Emperor and replace him with a suitable pu[FONT="]ppet (like young Tiberius [FONT="]Gemellus). [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
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1.- Between Scylla and Charybdis: POD in 88 BC, as Lucius Cornelius Sulla dies at the battle of the Coline Gate, leaving Pontius Telesinus's Samnites to burn and sack Rome after betraying their Marian allies. The aftermath sees a civil war without a clear leader to end it, forcing Optimates and Popularis to rethink their approach.
2.- The New Hannibal: POD in 78 BC, Lepidus's revolt is still defeated, but he fares well enough to take a larger force and join Sertorius instead of mysteriously dying in exile. Significantly stronger than in OTL, Sertorius goes onto fighting a far more succesful war against the Senate to return to Italy and crush Sulla's legacy once and for all.
3.- Of Auctoritas and Imperium: The POD is in 47 BC, being that Julius Caesar dies during the Siege of Alexandria, leaving the Republic in a very difficult situation as Pharnakes of Pontus invades the East, Mark Antony is the unpopular Master of the Horse in Italy and Cato reorganizes the uneasy coalition of Optimates and Pompeians in Africa to resume the war.
4.- In Defence of the Republic: There are two POD's here from 43-42 BC, first being that Cicero escapes the OTL proscriptions to join Brutus, second that Brutus doesn't ask Cassius to come north too soon, leading to Cassius and the Liberatores invading Egypt to dethrone Cleopatra. All of this results in a very different campaign against Octavian and Antony.
[FONT="]5.- Hail Sejanus: POD in 30 [FONT="]or [FONT="]31 [FONT="]AD[/FONT]. Sejanus learns of [FONT="]Tiberius's plans to make him fall from [FONT="]power with the he[FONT="]lp of Ca[FONT="]ligula and Macro, and launches a counter-coup of his own to overt[FONT="]h[FONT="]row the Emperor and replace him with a suitable pu[FONT="]ppet (like young Tiberius [FONT="]Gemellus). [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
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