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Western Roman Empire Administration Level 5

Royal Court

Let there be order here, whilst chaos swirls around us.

Originally beginning as a council of noble advisors for Rome’s line of kings, the Senate gradually became the most powerful body in Roman politics – creating laws, raising funds for public works and passing judgement over all aspects of society. War and politics have always been intrinsically linked; the Senate’s elected Magistrates – the Consuls and Proconsuls – even led Rome’s citizen armies until the military reforms in the 1st century BC, such was the extent of their influence over every sphere of Roman life. Reaching the height of its power during the high Republican period, the Senate fell into decline under the Triumvirates, the Principate and the Empire. By the beginning of the 1st century AD, it was largely a hollow body, with little real power and greatly reduced prestige amongst ordinary Romans; Senators had been proved fallible, greedy and self-interested – amongst the people it was no longer a given that the noble classes knew best. The problem, from the point of view of the reactionary patrician class, began when the People were permitted involvement in the business of government. Reformers such as Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Marius, both ‘novus homo’ – ‘new men’ - of the plebeians, managed to pass legislation, or agitate the mob to the point that made change inevitable, and not always change to the advantage of the ‘old guard’. The end of the Republic did not improve their position either; the Senate became an even greater irrelevancy under successive Emperors, who were often powerful enough to bypass their wishes or simply not inform them of any potentially contentious issue. By the Western Empire’s end, late in the 5th century AD, it was little more than an occasional court, sometimes given permission to try capital cases by the Emperor. However, once the Empire had collapsed in the west its Germanic inheritors – men such as the Gothic general Odoacer – revived the Senate’s fortunes somewhat, although by that point many Senators were willing to act as mere puppets in order to keep their lands, and lives, intact. Never as vital a force in the Eastern Roman Empire, the Senate was no more than a symbolic body and one that disappeared altogether during the 7th century.

Effects

Enables agent recruitment: Champions (province_to_province_own)
Maximum amount of active Champions increased by +1 (factionwide)
Wealth: 2000 from culture (building_to_building_own)
Wealth: +10% from all buildings (province_to_region_own)
Food consumption: -100 (region_to_region_own)
Public order: +17 (province_to_province_own)
Public order: +1 (all provinces)

Provides Garrison Army

Recruitable Units

No Recruitable Units

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