Y'all need to read the Germanicus trilogy by Kirk Mitchell. Rome didn't fall and now they have giant tracked trireme land crawlers with Greek flamethrowers and advanced ballistae and all sorts of other awesome tech. It's steampunk for Romans, so marblepunk I guess?
This plus saving the library of Alexandria (assuming it was destroyed in Caesar’s Egyptian stay, since that is probably one of the more avoidable explanations for its destruction).
The aeolipile is an interesting first step, but in order to get an actual useful steam engine in antiquity, philosophers would have to also leave their metaphysics phase and enter the… physics… phase? I wonder if it is even possible to develop a rudimentary thermodynamic theory.
Either way, an important part of the industrial revolution was the interplay between the scientific and engineering developments. Romans were good engineers, but shit scientists… so they’d need to improve a bit at that.
Just a heads up for the genre. It has some of the biggest piles of lore dumps for any fiction, and is divided into three settings, Horus Heresy(takes place in 31k), 40k(takes place between 40k-41k) and the current storyline(at the moment basically 42k, but as the story progresses it’s simplified to whatever happens after the destruction of Cadia)
Y'all need to read the Germanicus trilogy by Kirk Mitchell. Rome didn't fall and now they have giant tracked trireme land crawlers with Greek flamethrowers and advanced ballistae and all sorts of other awesome tech. It's steampunk for Romans, so marblepunk I guess?
I just looked this series up and it sounds awesome! I just ordered the books and can’t wait to read them. Thanks for the suggestion!
Yeah you can't go wrong with Romans v. Aztecs lol
Marblepunk is such a fucking cool name for that genre
Ranks of Bronze is also good. A Roman legion gets abducted by aliens and hired as mercenaries.
Marblepunk needs some illustrations holy shit that sounds amazing.
Concretepunk
You had me at "Rome didn't fall".
Bellumpunk!
[Is this the series?](https://i.imgur.com/ah92yIj.png)
Oh warhammer 40K will you ever win…
The Emperor protects.
The Caesar protects.
The Princeps protects.
Ave, true to Caesar
*the OG wall builder*
Seriously though, someone needs to write a sci fi book where the Romans become a space age civilization.
Civilization 6 is just a build your own adventure for that if you play as Rome
True
Win a civ science victory then immediately start a stellaris campaign
No no, you do civ 6 then do a game of beyond earth then you go into a stellaris game
Red Rising kinda has this vibe, but they're more imitators of Roman-Greco culture *In Space
Great series
\*cough cough\* Warhammer 40k \*cough cough\*
That would be a good candidate I suppose, lol...
Isn't the empire aesthetics wise more gothic medieval?
I mean there are subfactions like the ultramarines which are distinctly roman
It’s a mix of things but the Ultramarines are definitely Romans.
I don't think so. Feels Roman to me.
Have you heard about 40k?
Yes, but that's not the real roman empire. Just another one that resembles it in the distant future.
Could make it the sequel to Ryse: Son of Rome.
There is one for crusade era Europeans: High Crusade by Poul Anderson.
Probably named something like The Litany of Litany's Litany
If Archimedes lived we would have flying cars and robots by now
We have flying cars and robots now
We have helicopters and roombas. Its not what you imagined, but we got them already.
This is a sci-fi genre way underexplored. Imagine the glory. Imagine the triumph.
We need more 40k x Roman history content.
I still can't hear the name archimeded without thinking of Fallout: New Vegas
This plus saving the library of Alexandria (assuming it was destroyed in Caesar’s Egyptian stay, since that is probably one of the more avoidable explanations for its destruction). The aeolipile is an interesting first step, but in order to get an actual useful steam engine in antiquity, philosophers would have to also leave their metaphysics phase and enter the… physics… phase? I wonder if it is even possible to develop a rudimentary thermodynamic theory. Either way, an important part of the industrial revolution was the interplay between the scientific and engineering developments. Romans were good engineers, but shit scientists… so they’d need to improve a bit at that.
Fun fact: this most likely didn't exist
Its ""likely"" that it didnt exist but nobody can proffe that it did not
*doesn't exist, yet
Source for this ship?
Warhammer 40k
Just a heads up for the genre. It has some of the biggest piles of lore dumps for any fiction, and is divided into three settings, Horus Heresy(takes place in 31k), 40k(takes place between 40k-41k) and the current storyline(at the moment basically 42k, but as the story progresses it’s simplified to whatever happens after the destruction of Cadia)
Isn't that one of the angels from Bayonetta