Year: 1453 AD
Caesarian Empire
New Rome Forum
A few months ago
The Caesarian Senate was discussing how they would contain the Ottoman Empire, there was a certain clamor from the descendants of the Eastern Romans living in the Caesarian Empire to intervene to save the Eastern Roman Empire from the Turkish threat.
Senator Cristopher Arquimedes from the province of New Cilicia in the Paulistania region, took to the pulpit and said:
"Senators of Paulistania, Canada, New Anatolia and New Cyprus, we are the most powerful nation in the entire known world, the Turks are nothing compared to our cannons and arquebuses. We must send more than ten thousand elite soldiers to Constantinople and prevent the Turks from desecrating the Basilica of Hagia Sophia with their faith that is an enemy of Christianity. I appeal to Emperor Paulus II and his son Caesar to send soldiers to Constantinople, we cannot be like the Venetians or those pretentious Germans who think they are the heirs of Rome." said Christopher.
The senators then began to murmur among themselves and the senator of New Rome Augustus Maximus raised his hand and said:
"The Eastern Romans have offended the Crown Prince Caesar Theodosius, they do not recognize us as a legatee state of the Western Roman Empire, more than that, they consider themselves the "true Romans" and does not recognize the continuity of Roman civilization in the New World, we are not Venetians or the infamous self-styled Holy Roman Empire, we are children of the Western Romans who ventured into Atlantic Ocean, we are the best Romans, we should not lower ourselves to help a beggar who lives in a once glorious but now decadent city and lives by cursing in the name of a tradition which they claim to be Roman, well, remember if it weren't for us the Italian Peninsula would be a cluster of Germanic people in Northern Italy, Southern Italy would be Greek and only the Central region would be Roman, we were the ones who saved the Romans of the Italian Peninsula from being Germanized, we saved the land of our ancestors, the Eastern Romans were much more useless in the Lombard Wars, If it were up to them, a Roman would be an illiterate Greek peasant living in Morea. They chose this path, we chose another path, terrible rulers and endless bloody civil wars would get this way, they did not learn from the past and repeated the same mistake of the Roman Empire in the Crisis of the Third Century and the Germanic invasions in the 5th century, they slept for centuries in Constantinople and only now have they woken up and seen the Turkic dragon prowling over the city, they will die clinging to the same errors that the Western Roman Empire clung to." said Augustus.
An intense debate soon began between the senators of Eastern Roman descent and those of Western Roman descent, the senators of Visigothic, native and Norwegian origin just watched the heated discussion and one of them said:
"It doesn't matter if they are descendants of Eastern Romans or Western Romans, they still have a bond between them, but it seems like it's a fight between brothers, both will be fighting to see who is more Roman, one day they will get it right, but in the meantime these moments will occur." said a senator.
The Caesarian Senate had another day of intense debate between senators about aid to the Eastern Roman Empire against the Ottoman Empire, but news would soon arrive that would definitively mark the end of the Middle Ages.
New Rome Forum
Now
The Caesarian Senate was full and there were unfounded rumors that something very serious had happened in Constantinople, the Caesarian Emperor Paulus II with his 83 years old with his wavy gray hair, wearing the Golden Phoenix armor and Crown Prince Caesar Theodosius at 53 years old with his wavy brown hair, wearing the armor from New Cyprus, they came with a representative of the Palaiologos Dynasty that resides in Northern Italy, the emperor then clears his throat and says:
"Senators of Paulistania, Canada, New Anatolia and New Cyprus, today, June 15, 1453, I officially declare that the Eastern Roman Empire officially fell to the Turks on May 29, On the day of Pentecost, the empire founded by Constantine the Great fell with Constantine XI as its ruler. The Turks with the Orban Cannons destroyed the Theodosian Walls and entered Constantinople, today Sultan Mehmet II becomes the greatest leader of the Saracen world after Khalid and the Prophet Muhammad, he managed to take the Queen of Cities, with that an era ends and another begins to be born, catapults will be exchanged for cannons, bows and arrows will be exchanged for arquebuses, scribes will be exchanged for typographers, Western Europe now has an enemy that threatens it again, just as it was the Umayyad Caliphate, but this time swords will no longer be useful as they were for centuries, firearms are timidly beginning to gain traction in a decadent Western Europe, where that honor is not in fighting in close combat, but in long-distance battles, in short, the Eastern Roman Empire gave a lesson to Europe and to us, there is no point in clinging to the same mistakes that our ancestors made, all the monarchs of the West will remember what should not be done with a ruler and will remember the intricate schemes of power and a false tradition which was proclaimed as the true tradition of the Romans. On January 16, 27 BC, Augustus was appointed by the Senate to have powers beyond those of a consul or dictator, this was the beginning of the Roman Empire, and on May 29, 1453, the Turks entered Constantinople and ends an empire that lasted 1479 years, so definitely the eagle, whether legionary or double-headed, will not fly anywhere in the Old World, it is definitely gone and in a way permanent." says Paulus.
The Caesarian Senate remained silent for minutes, out of respect for the end of the Roman Empire.
After this shock, Crown Prince Caesar Theodosius then says to the senators:
"Don't give up we did what we could to help them against the Turks, but they dug their own grave by simply selling the weapons we gave them to the Venetians and Genoese, the Eastern Roman Empire fell and now we have the Serene Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa as Roman states of the Italian Peninsula, with great influence in Northern Italy and it is exactly that's why I recently visited the Marquisate of Montferrat and now we have an ally in Northern Italy, which will be crucial in a likely war against these Roman states. Today will be a day of mourning, but tomorrow will be the hardest day, for now it is we the Romans who have pioneered the New World, who will become the eldest son of Rome, the one who saw the Fall of the two Romes, one in 476 and the other in 1453, now we are no longer the shadow of an Empire that was once glorious, now we overshadow the Roman states of the Italian Peninsula and the European kingdoms. Tomorrow it will be the Golden Phoenix that will cast a shadow over both the West and the East, a new era will begin and the Caesarian Empire will show why, we proclaim ourselves as the Best Rome, remember In the 5th century our ancestors explored untouched lands and fled the Germanic chaos, today we are the face of Rome, in the midst of chaos there is hope!" says Caesar.
The senators applauded the crown prince for eight minutes, which surprised the representative of the Marquisate of Montferrat, as it was something very unusual, the Romans of the Italian Peninsula are gradually changing medieval Latin to Neo-Latin to separate itself a little from the past of the Roman Empire that still echoed in traditionalist circles in the Italian Peninsula, feeling this sensation of having a senate was something very strange for a Roman living in the Italian Peninsula, after all they adopted the Germanic model of monarchy and not the traditional Roman model of senators, praetors and tribunes.
The Caesarian Empire now no longer overshadowed the Roman Empire, now the Roman states of the Italian Peninsula and the European kingdoms overshadowed the Caesarian Empire, the Golden Phoenix covered both the West as well as East.