The Last Dance of the Western Roman Empire

Year:461

Western Roman Empire

Rome

Quintus Theodosius Maximus Junior, eldest son of the late Paulus Theodosius Maximus, saw that with each trip he made back to the Western Roman Empire, it found itself increasingly decadent, the former Emperor Majorian tried to reconquer North Africa from the Vandals, but he ended up being betrayed by his trusted men and the vandals destroyed the ships that would be used to reconquer North Africa, with that he ended up being assassinated and the last emperor that there was any chance of restoring the borders of the Western Roman Empire as it was in 346 and what was once a very distant thought could now become reality, the Western Roman Empire will fall and it was not due to mere barbarian attacks, there were also betrayals and intrigues that led to this moment.

Quintus who was born in 406 in the city of Alexandria in the Eastern Roman Empire, saw his family support his father on his travels to new lands and had a peaceful childhood in the Eastern Roman Empire Meanwhile, the Western Roman Empire was crumbling under Germanic invasions.

When he reached the age of 18, he decided to follow his father's path and went on an adventure in the new lands that his father had discovered, but this time he would have to be a little more careful with the Visigoths who now dominated the former province of Hispania, so he led a fleet of five Romulus ships armed with ballistae and scorpions on their port and starboard sides.

His first naval battle was against a small fleet of 15 Visigothic ships led by Hermenegildo, the Brute, near the city of Cartago Nova.The Romulus ships, having technological superiority, managed to sink eight Visigoth ships and their leader Hermenegildo died in battle, in addition to taking five Visigoth ships with them and killing the Visigoths, making the city of Cartago Nova temporarily free from Visigoth control, so they supplied the city with supplies and saved the Celtiberians and the Hispano-Romans, so he left with more than 12,000 people towards town of New Rome.

After 40 days at sea, they sight dry land and see the flag of the Western Roman Empire, showing that they have arrived in the new home of those civilians who fled the barbarian hands of the Visigoths. At that moment, the town of New Rome had about of the 80,000 people living in the city, the natives still found it a bit strange that people would come in a large boat and bring large objects and animals that they had never seen, such as a caracal that looked like a cat but it was too fierce to be used for hunting.

His father, Paulus Theodosius Maximus had gained the title of Pretoris of New Rome, by his cousin Honorius who saw the expedition to new lands as a way to save his people from chaos and a new way to raise money to maintain the army, with the profits from the timber he sold to Constantinople, thus earning a living.

His father shows the new residents of city where they would live while the engineers were creating a sewage system in the city, they had built temporary wooden houses since concrete was being used to pave the city and fortify the walls to prevent attacks from enemy native tribes, in turn, he showed the public bath that had been built, the Forum of New Rome that had not yet been built and the church that was completed that would later become St. George's Cathedral, the New Rome Hippodrome that has already been completed and finally the Theodosian Palace that was still in its initial phase.

At night, in the amphitheater, Paulus gathered native leaders and the Western Romans to establish a true union between the two peoples, thus he as Praetoris of New Rome put the two sides to assert a proposal for territorial expansion in enemy tribes, at first the natives were surprised and the Western Romans furious because unlike Europe, this land was not yet t fully known as in the Old World and could have enemies even more brutal than the Visigoths, Franks, Saxons and Ostrogoths. Paulus does not lose his calm and states that according to information from a native spy, native tribes are forming to invade us, with this information the atmosphere became tense in the amphitheater, so he asks that the disagreements you have can be resolved another time and that at this time western Romans and natives must fight side by side against the enemy native tribes, the native leaders and the Romans Westerners approved territorial expansion and prepared for the first of many long Native Coalitions that would occur for quite some time.

A week later, on November 9th, hundreds of natives appeared on the horizon with bows and arrows and what appeared to be a Shaman on horseback and a native warrior with a bone club as if it were a sword, the Western Roman soldiers saw a significant number of enemy native tribes through the walls and warned their superiors about the presence of enemy native tribes.

Paulus orders his son, Quintus to lead this confrontation against the enemy natives and thus the western Roman legions to fight against these enemy native tribes.More than 4,000 Western Roman legionaries were being led by Quintus, this was his first land battle and he knew that this number of enemies would probably be greater then He remained cautious and ordered his soldiers not to underestimate the enemy and to make sure they could win the battle.

As expected, the Shaman shouted something in his language and thousands of natives appeared holding spears. Quintus was surprised by the amount of enemy that appeared in the battle, before it was 150 and now it was 8,000, so he ordered the soldiers to face a real fight like the Romans of the time of Julius Caesar, Scipio Africanus and Germanicus, a battle that if lost would leave the city of New Rome vulnerable to a powerful attack by enemy natives and if won would open the beginning of expansion Western Roman territory in these new lands.

The Shaman shouted something once more in his language and thousands of natives advanced into open ground, when holes began to open containing stakes inside the holes and thus began the key point which would later become the creation of the Caesarian Empire.Hundreds of natives ended up falling into the holes and ended up dying, Quintus takes the opportunity to encourage his soldiers to face the natives, so they march into combat, Meanwhile, the native forces were fearful of the likely traps they would encounter upon reaching the walls. Quintus advances with the Western Roman cavalry that had arrived, increasing from 4,000 to 5,500, the cavalry launches a powerful attack that destroys the morale of the native forces and they end up fleeing the battlefield, which made the Shaman scream in his language and decided to advance against Quintus who in this case took a spear and threw it at the Shaman who ended up being killed and with this result the Battle of New Rome, on November 9th of the year 421 AD, ends with the first Roman victory in the New World and would facilitate the founding of the province of New Rome and marking the beginning of Roman expansion into the New World.

Western Roman Empire

Rome

Now

When Quintus arrived in Rome he saw that the situation was irreversible, the Western Romans carried out their intrigues, conspiracies and assassinations that encouraged the Germanic tribes to invade their territory, it seemed that something existed in the Roman that prevented him from solving his external problems because of internal problems, with that he realized that the Western Roman Empire would not last until the end of this century. Quintus came to have an audience with the emperor Libius Severus, in which he stated that if the Western Roman Empire wanted to survive it would have to increase the strength of the emperor and decrease the strength of the aristocrats, in addition to expelling the Visigoths from the Roman army, Emperor Libius Severus mocked Quintus and stated that his family no longer ruled in the Western Roman Empire and should be content with having a land for their people, besides would increase the tax rate of the province of New Rome to pay the salaries of the Western Roman soldiers and invite the Visigoths and Suevi to send to New Rome since they were federated with Rome,Quintus expressed his anger and stated that Rome will fall because of rulers of his lineage who is a puppet of a Visigoth general, Roman emperors such as Augustus, Aurelian and Constantine the Great would be ashamed of someone so low in spirit and character being ruler of Rome.

Quintus orders the sailors to warn the poorest that the province of New Rome is in need of workers and settlers to populate the cities of the province of New Rome. After two hours more than 3,500 people decided to come and they came with their families in search of something better, so he sent a message to the current Western Roman Emperor, saying that officially the province of New Rome would not accept orders from a puppet emperor of a barbarian general, thus declaring its independence from the Western Roman Empire.

This would be the last time Quintus traveled to Rome, from that moment on he maintained contact with the ancient province of Britannia and managed to expel attacks from the Saxons and the Angles, with this The journey marks the last dance of the Western Roman Empire, which would fall 15 years later in 476, with its emperor, the young Romulus Quintilus, being deposed by Odoacer and founding the Kingdom of Ostrogoths.