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Topic Started: Sep 7 2011, 04:30 AM (362 Views)
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Imagine a world where the Roman Empire never collapsed. Imagine a world where the Roman empire remained a colossal juggernaut of war. This is the world of Gloria Perpetua, a world of alternate history stemming from the continued growth of the Greatest Empire on Earth. Technology has increased in leaps and bounds, space travel achieved nearly three hundred years prior to our own world. This is a place where Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam never existed long enough to establish a foothold. This is a world where the Roman and Greek Pantheon are one in the same, and real.

Roman Caesars have ruled in perpetuity, unchallenged, uncontested. The Roman Legions cover most of the globe in a tide of enlightened enforcement, providing safety for loyal citizens and severe reprimand for betrayers. This is not the dark age, this is not a murderous abuse of civil liberties; for they never existed. This is a land where order and prosperity are the highest objectives, a world where civil obedience precipitates a long and healthy existence. The highest honour is to serve in the mighty Praetorian Guard, to protect the Caesars and their line. The greatest glory is the death of the enemies of the Empire, and those that dare to threaten the Imperium through the sin of resistance.

This is the year 2764 AUC (Ab Urbe Condita), where Mars has been terraformed and the true gods sire half-mortal children to perform great deeds, where mythical creatures are as real as gravity and Imperial technology has been focused towards one united effort for over a thousand years. This is history as it could have been. It has been five years since the signing of the peace accords between the Roman Imperium and the other three Great Nations. The Greek rebels known as the Sons of Olympus wage a constant guerrilla war against the Empire and are hunted ruthlessly in return, the Romans seeking to end the threat to their peace and order.

The Kingdom of the Sun and its powerful Geneomancers construct massive engines of death and destruction, preparing for the day the Roman Empire assails them once more; while the Middle Kingdom hides behind its Great Barrier Wall and attempts to stave off destruction and assimilation at the hands of the Empire. The Iroquois Nation once having fought a desperate war against the advancing Roman legions, now sees to the maintenance of their beloved homeland with ever-wary eyes on the Imperial settlements.

Demi-Gods roam the earth and the politics of the Empire move in unending webs and weaves that baffle and intrigue. The Sons of Asgard sail the seas, striking with the wrath of a bloodied beast before retreating beneath the waves in their thousands-strong migrant fleets, driven from the only homes they have ever known by Imperial power, while small pocket rebellions within the Imperium are crushed on a daily basis.

This is a world where Gladiators yet live, where Grecco-Roman gods rule the heavens and slowly subjugate other pantheons, while their half-mortal children clash in the name of victory, glory and honour. This is a world where weapons are speech and death is preferable to dishonour. This is a world of passion, betrayal, love and strife.

This is Gloria Perpetua.
Edited by Lucien, Sep 21 2011, 05:15 AM.
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