Q&A

I thought maybe you ought to have this type of thread (or several) so that the informational threads can stay "pure" with updated or appended information.

Or not. Change as you see fit...

So I'll ask some questions:

1. Tanks - does this imply steam engines or some other motive force?

2. No natives on the N.A. West Coast (so far). Just walking through the logic so I can organize my thoughts not nitpicking. In the Real World (RW), the west coast was relatively heavily populated, I believe. In Nova Roma World (NRW), what would account for the lack of natives? If it was relatively easy for the legions to cross the Strait, then surely Asian migration would have occured as well?

3. Centurions fill all the military ranks between soldier and General? And/or are there lesser and greater Generals. (General ->General of 3rd Army -> General of X Region - General of the Western Front)

4. With military expansion, I would guess that an area goes through several phases:
Active Warfare,
Conquered but Hotspot fighting,
Newly Pacified-Uneasy,
Pacified(Families, lots of commerce, locals being concscripted into the army) and
Longtime Pacified (lax security, soldiers are really just locals that have a job in the army).

So this leads up to questions about N.R., such as how long it's been there, how settled is it, why is it there? (no local commerce so is it just a military outpost as a staging point for further exploration?) Or have "locals" been imported from Asia as well (Roman Citizens emigrating to the new lands).

I guess I'm struggling with understanding what the local population is composed of (people-wise) cause, I'd imagine a "true" Roman would be kind of rare. Most would be Roman Citizens of conquered territories in Asia... or is that really a supposition based on my assumptions? For example, maybe there's a "law" that true Romans get the first pick of new lands so there actually is a large contingent of elite Romans that are out in the expanded Empire.