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12/30/2024, 4:35:19 AM
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The most relevant active threat to the Empire's borders at present remains, as ever, the north. The Franks in Flevum had once been hoped to become the northern edge of the great Imperial buffer zone, which would have Germanic client states guard the Empire's borders before they could even be intruded upon. While repeated rebellions from the Franks had frustrated Imperial strategists, their most recent subjugation as hoped to be a lasting one. Instead, they were ousted by a fresher, stronger barbarian kingdom: The Geats.
While Rome has yet to see any active hostilities from the Geats, they are still formally at war, and their newly-established southern presence means that Sextus Perennis and the VI Legion must once more remain watchful. While a peace deal with the cowed Picts has reduced his worries somewhat, Sextus still has the specter of looking rebellion in northern Britannia to worry about. Governors have yet to arrive from Mediolanum, busy in other corners of the Empire, and while priests have been dispatched northwards to calm the people, for now it shall only be by force of arms that the island shall be kept in order.
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The most relevant active threat to the Empire's borders at present remains, as ever, the north. The Franks in Flevum had once been hoped to become the northern edge of the great Imperial buffer zone, which would have Germanic client states guard the Empire's borders before they could even be intruded upon. While repeated rebellions from the Franks had frustrated Imperial strategists, their most recent subjugation as hoped to be a lasting one. Instead, they were ousted by a fresher, stronger barbarian kingdom: The Geats.
While Rome has yet to see any active hostilities from the Geats, they are still formally at war, and their newly-established southern presence means that Sextus Perennis and the VI Legion must once more remain watchful. While a peace deal with the cowed Picts has reduced his worries somewhat, Sextus still has the specter of looking rebellion in northern Britannia to worry about. Governors have yet to arrive from Mediolanum, busy in other corners of the Empire, and while priests have been dispatched northwards to calm the people, for now it shall only be by force of arms that the island shall be kept in order.
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