Hispania Ulterior

[Pontifex Maximus]

History of the Province

Pro-Consulate of Hispania Ulterior

Current Pro-Consul:
Publius Cornelius Sulla

Capital:
​Corduba

Edicts in Effect:
TBD

Current Objectives:
1. Extend alliances to Spanish tribes

External Threats: (calculated based upon relative level of violence true of history)
1. Chance of foreign attack is currently 5/20.
2. Historically hostile tribes are in the area.

Military Forces Present:
​none

[Pontifex Maximus]

Sulla institutes the following edicts to prepare for an invasion:

1. -15% legionary recruitment
2. -15% legionary upkeep
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3. +25% (base) income
4. D20 x 200 local auxilia conscripted (varies by region)

[Pontifex Maximus]

4. D20 x 200 local auxilia conscripted (varies by region)

This roll repeated please

[Dirty Chai]

Local Auxilia
Roll: 7/20 x200 = 1400

[Pontifex Maximus]

1,400 local Spanish infantry are conscripted for the defense of Corduba and retained in arms for the duration of the year.

[General Brewster]

A letter is delivered by a messenger boy carrying the seal of Consul Lepidus.

Salve Pro Consul Sulla,

Recently the senate passed a series of bills that reforms our tax system. One of these bills includes that the pro consulates need to inquire how much their respective provinces can pay yearly. Based on these reports the senate will name a figure which needs to be collected and paid annually. We hope to hear from you soon.

Signed,
Consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

[Pontifex Maximus]

Sulla, although on the war path, orders his quaestors to determine the amount of wealth available to the province on the basis of annual taxation.

D20 x 500

5,000 Denarii/Year

[General Brewster]

A letter is delivered by a messenger boy carrying the seal of Consul Lepidus. Inside the following message.

Salve proconsul Sulla,

I fear that the other proconsuls have been less diligent than you are. We are yet to receive a reply from Africa, Macedonia and Gaul. When those are in a rate will be determined and the laws will be enacted. I hope I informed you enough.

Signed Consul,
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

[Dirty Chai]

15 x 200 = 3,000 auxilia conscripted

[Pontifex Maximus]

They are garrisoned in the city and scout the number of raiders.

[Pontifex Maximus]

Given the doubling of the size of the province, Sulla orders a new registry of the taxation potential of his province.

D20 (13) x 1,000 = 13,000

(Roll given by Skylord)

[Xion]

Salve, Pro-Consul Sulla,

The Senate has determined the tax for your province shall be twenty five percent of the assessed income. The Quaestor assigned to your province can arrange transportation for the tax to Roma from the port of Gades.

Quaestor Mergus

[Xion]

A letter arrives for the new proconsul requesting that he send the 25% tax on the assessed income of the province to Roma as soon as the provincial quaestor can arrange transportation for it.

[Pontifex Maximus]

Sulla calculates the total tax collected from the newly added territories and sends the Senate what is due under the old tax assessment, keeping the rest.

1,250 Denarii is sent to the Senate, 2,000 is pocketed.

[Pontifex Maximus]

Once back in Corduba, Sulla disbands the conscripts.

[Dirty Chai]

Things had settled down in months following the campaign against the Lusitani. Though the legions were now as good as Sulla's own (usually a heinous state of events according to many, including the men of the Albini, though Albinus the Younger could not fault Sulla for defending the province), Aulus had become finally what he had been sent to Hispania to be: a proconsul's assistant, lieutenant.

It came down to much accounting, at the end of the war, and hearing appeals on behalf of the proconsul due to the Lusitanians having ravaged much of the farmland around northern Baetica as well as around the capital, Corduba, itself. The newly acquired lands were much desired, regardless of devastation. Local peoples came out of the woodwork, suddenly, producing so many arguments that would sway men of weaker education. Albinus smiled with amusement as one family appeared with a child purposefully wretched in appearance. He had no sympathy for the mob and its greed, its lack of restraint. He heard them all out, one by one, and documented their requests, but nothing would come of them. Not likely, anyway.

After one such day, he went to find the proconsul who was presumably somewhere in the sizable governor's villa.

[Pontifex Maximus]

Albinus found Sulla in his office, making notes in a large ledger. A Greek slave in the corner was taking dictated notes on a scroll.

"Come, Albinus." Sulla intoned

[Dirty Chai]

Albinus found Sulla in his office, making notes in a large ledger. A Greek slave in the corner was taking dictated notes on a scroll.

"Come, Albinus." Sulla intoned

Aulus took a seat.
"What do you plan to do with the new lands north of the Anas?" he asked, though without any actual interest.

[Rhapture]

A letter arrives for Sulla

Publius Cornelius Sulla

My friend, the consul Sulpicianus is dead in a riot in Rome over a command to put down the pirates in the Aegean. Finish your business as prudently as possible and return to Rome with all haste. Bring your favorite legion with you to march in your triumph. We need a threat of force in Rome, although I don't think it will be needed, just your presence on the Campus Martialis will be enough. However, I don't want any other legions in Italy for the Tribunes to try to give a command to Iulus, yes, he is the primary mover in these events. I will calm things down and deal with him as best I can, but so far he has not broken any laws.

QCMP, Consul

[Lucius Malfoy]

A letter arrives from Gallia Narbonensis

Good Father, Publius Cornelius Sulla,

I have been told of the events in Rome and I fear for the lives of the People and my family. I dare not leave my post given the Imperium upon me, but I ask you, good father, what should I do?

Signed,
L.A.R.