Nova Roma
XXII FEBRVARIVS MMDCCLVIII AVC, Nova Roma, Nova Roma, Imperial Archives. Euripides of Apollonius.
I sit here now, relating to you the history of Nova Roma, while bombing runs can be heard in the distance. The war is not going well. We have lost nearly our entire population to a nuclear attack by Lamoni. Our radiation teams will no doubt be able to clean up the radioactive mess in a few years, but the problem is getting out of this place.
So far, the eternal city itself has yet to be hit. Lamoni is staying away from here, most likely because the defences are strongest. The Mars and Ivpiter defence grids around the city are still fully functional and no fool would attempt to get into the way of that kind of firepower. The Romans have not lost, but rumors of surrender are permeating throughout the city. I doubt the Imperator would surrender. A cease-fire, yes. But surrender? That goes against every grain of Roman society. The Romans are proud... but obstinate. Which leads me into the discussion as to why they are such.
The Rome of old never truly fell. Its laws, language, customs, technology, etc. all lived on through the centuries. But where do the Nova Romans come in, you ask? Roman conquest spread from the island of the Britons far east to the lands of the ancient Babylonians. Several Roman legions however, were lost to Roman records, they weren't defeated. They simply never returned to Rome or any Roman outpost. A myriad of Roman towns also disappeared over the centuries. In total 5 Roman legions disappeared, and over 40 cities worth of inhabitants of the Italian peninsula vanished.
Two millenia later those lost Romans reappeared on an island in the Atlantian Oceania region when only a few knew of the region's existance. This limited knowledge of the region gave the Romans time to rebuild and aquaint themselves with the modern world. The ever neutral nation of Vilita provided the Romans with an infrastructure to work on and supplied them with adequate supplies to get back on their feet. Luckily, the Romans had a reincarnation of the great Avgvstvs Caesar with them: a man going by the name of Tyrannvs Tiberivs Siricvs.
