Year: 1245 AD
Caesarian Empire
Province of Saint Michael
New Constantine
Port Lucius Theodosius
A few hours ago
For the first time in centuries, the West Coast of Paulistania, then inhabited by the fearsome Apaches, ended up being Romanized, a part of them and the other part crossed the Desert of Death and entered in the New Anatolia region and met with the native tribes of that region, so the threat was contained for some time.
The Caesarian Empire had, according to the census that was carried out five years ago, that the Caesarian Empire had about 135 million inhabitants, of which 80 million were Romans, 30 million were natives, 20 million were Visigoths and 5 million Norwegians, which was approximately 7 people per square meter, a relatively high number for the Central Middle Ages and this high population number is due to the creation of flu medications and the world's first vaccine was made in 1220 AD, as a way to contain the Smallpox Plague that had taken about 50 million Caesarian inhabitants to death and for many that would be the end of the Caesarian Empire. But the doctor Roman-Breton Paulus Claudius Carractus did an experiment with a child who survived smallpox thanks to his experiment and he shows Emperor Leo III a syringe with a liquid that would save the Caesarean Empire from extinction and thus the Health Revolution had begun and the lives of Caesarian citizens began to change in leaps and bounds.
Emperor Leo IV made his long journey from New Rome to New Constantine, lasting some months in the Pacific Ocean until he finally arrived at the port of Lucius Theodosius.
After the Royal ship docks at the port of Lucius Theodosius, sailors launch a large gangplank and Emperor Leo IV sees that all the other sailors on the other ships are impressed with the Royal ship and Leo IV is being applauded by the sailors of the other vessels.
The emperor left of his majestic Royal ship, the Victrix Aeterna, which is about 500 meters long, 100 meters wide, has 300 Palatine bombards, 20 lateen sails, and weighs about 1 million and 250 thousand tons , the first ship in the world to use steel to reinforce the defense of the hull and the interior of the ship and can carry up to 20 thousand people on the ship, in addition to a rudimentary steam engine system being used to keep the hot springs system active and to prevent overheating on the Emperor's ship.
Leo IV came along with the new Classis Nova Sanctus Michael, the promising young man of Roman-Norwegian origin Olaf Joannis Jahrl, he had achieved victories against the Mongols in the naval battle of Beijing which put a brake on them in China and began their invasion of Middle East and there are rumors that they reached Eastern Europe, but such a victory made Emperor Leo IV realize that the Norwegians demonstrated great naval genius and so he decided to choose Olaf to be the first Classis of the West Coast and the first Norseman to assume such an important position in the Caesarian Navy.
Leo IV then looks at Olaf and asks:
"Do you see this port? This port is named after one of the great military men of the Caesarian Empire in the 6th century, he was Lucius Theodosius, he was important in the Gothic Wars, the Caesarian-Visigothic Wars of that century and in the Arthurian Wars, he was the most important man of that century in the Caesarian Empire, he was the inventor of the Destructors and marked his name in the history of our nation, are you really ready to take on such a position?" asks Leo.
Olaf takes a deep breath and responds in his late Norwegian Latin accent:
"I am sure that I am fit to assume the position of Classis Nova Sanctus Michael, I do not know if I will come close to what Lucius Theodosius was, but I will strive to honor all the Classis that they longed for such a moment and now I have the duty to honor my pioneering Viking ancestors on my mother's side and the imposing and glorious Romans of both the Old World and the New World on my father's side,I swear loyalty to the Caesarian Empire and promise to defend the West Coast at all costs." Olaf replies.
Emperor Leo IV leaves the port with his entourage and Olaf goes with him to his induction into the office of Classis Nova Sanctus Michael at the Forum of New Constantine.
New Constantine Forum
Now
The Forum was full and all the praetors were eagerly awaiting the speech of the Caesarian Emperor Leo IV on the formation of the Caesarian navy on the West Coast, in the Forum was the Dux Flavius Philippus Tiberius and his beautiful wife the exuberant Flavia Maria Joana and the Magister Militum Andreas Teodosius Tertullian, so that the emperor could give his speech, so he went up to the pulpit and began his speech:
"Today is a very important day in the history of our nation, more than 838 years ago, Paulus Magnus Theodosius arrived on dry land on July 12th, today, 838 years later, we control the West Coast of Paulistania and Canada, we control two oceans, we have our own Mare Nostrum.In the Far East, the Mongols are destroying entire armies, the time will come when we will face them and at that moment worlds will collide, the fearsome Mongol cavalry with their curved bow against our arquebuses, revolvers and Palatine bombards. After the Smallpox Plague in the early 13th century, this is certainly one of the great events of this century, the man named Temunjim but known as Genghis Khan is a threat to our economic partner which is the Goreyo dynasty, with that we must prepare ourselves for a new partial recruitment for this new clash that will occur at some point.However, I come here to admit to the office of Classis Nova Sanctus Michael to the promising young Olaf Joannis Jahrl to this position, in the naval battle of Beijing he destroyed 40 Mongolian ships using 5 Romulus Alpha ships, in addition to defeating 120 Chinese pirate ships in Guangzhou, I therefore conclude that the first Classis of the West Coast is admitted to his office." Leo says.
Applause echoed through the Forum, Emperor Leo IV stepped down from the pulpit and said to Olaf:
"Go up to make your speech at the pulpit and don't be afraid because of your Norwegian accent, the Dux of the West Coast are not Romanophiles and even some of them married Norwegian women, come on and show why you're the first Classis on the West Coast." says Leo.
Olaf, with the moral support of Emperor Leo IV, ascends the pulpit and begins his speech in late Latin with his Norwegian accent:
"It is an honor to be admitted to such a position, my ancestors on my mother's side were on the ship that Leif Eriksson arrived on the island of Saint John and my ancestors on my father's side, They are the Romans of the second wave, the Romans of the 8th century who left the Italian Peninsula and ended up here in Paulistania.I swear allegiance to the Caesarian Empire, I promise that shipyards will be built all along the West Coast so that we can build Romulus ships without having an overload of ships from the "East Coast, my first order of business is to grant permission to Emperor Leo IV to reinforce the Romulus Omega with steel plates for the protection of these ships. Per Aspera Ad Astra." Olaf says.
The Forum applauded the speech of the now Classis Nova Sanctus Michael, he was now more important than the Dux himself, since the Classis along with the Magister Militum were more powerful in the hierarchy .
Meanwhile, in Eastern Europe, the Mongols invaded Kievan Rus' and for the first time, a major threat arrived on the European continent after centuries of conflict with the Saracens and themselves.