What if ASB teleports all the volcanic forces and products e
Oct 31, 2024 13:12:10 GMT
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Post by raharris1973 on Oct 31, 2024 13:12:10 GMT
Whati if an ASB teleported all the volcanic forces and products erupting from Vesuvius in its AD 78 eruption to launch out of Palatine Hill in central Rome at full speed?
This will kill a lot of people, animals and plants, but it will save (a much smaller number of) people, animal, and plant's lives in the Pompeii and Herculaneum areas of Campania around Vesuvius to the south.
Rome, the capital of the world's greatest empire is blanketed with volcanic ash, extreme heat, poisonous gases and particles, and pyroclastic flows of lava, killing the population unable to escape and entombing it and destroying and entombing built and natural structures of Rome under volcanic waste products. This could well include the Emperor Titus, who I presume was in the city, depending on the proximity of his residence to Palatine Hill, the thoroughness of the heat and ash soak the very first surge teleported from Vesuvius gives the city, and any willingness or lack thereof for the emperor to evacuate sufficient distance if he survives the first surge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD ---- the latest theorized, if not consensus, date for the eruption of Vesuvius is the range of October 24–25 in 79 AD.
The Roman Empire was at a pretty strong point of extension of integration and exploitation and economic integration around the Mediterranean, its provinces and cities connected by trade networks moving bulk and luxury goods long distances, and cross-cultural exchanges occurring at multiple-levels. The whole system was very urban-centric, the countryside serving regional cities, and above all, Rome-centric, but the Legions of the Army heavily manned the frontiers, with road networks supporting transit parallel to the frontiers and back to the center.
With Rome and the Emperor destroyed, the theoretical and practical knowledge of the Romans and their subject peoples in government, technology, agriculture, mining, military matters, sailing, philosophy, is far from lost. But the system is now 'headless' without its 'command center', Emperor, much of its Senatorial class, and their court/bureaucratic servants. A major market for the consumption of the empire's production is also gone or in need of repair or restoration.
Practical ability to command should default down to the Legions out at the frontiers and Provinces, which should be much more powerful than provincial civil, Senatorial, and bureaucratic administration, but the latter, and local elites, should not be irrelevant.
The Roman Principate's 'muscle memory' would cry out for these power elements at the frontier and provinces to 'refill the gaping hole' at the missing center of the empire in Rome or close-by in Italy especially where there are masses of concentrated people possessing Roman citizenship. This would even be the case even though the rebuilding tasks would be monumental.
But at the same time, the elimination of Rome and its suburbs in the near-term, while extremely, extremely, ominous and disturbing, removes an enormous 'taker' from the provinces and an enormous drain. Could deliberate planning by some Legion commanders or provincial leaders in some provinces, or force of circumstances [Legionary/Provincial competitors for Rome and Italy stalemating each other's efforts?] provide an opportunity to turn some of the larger Roman provinces effectively into separate states, that are better-off, more innovative, and more stable on their own in the long-run? Gallic, Spanish, Italian, British, Illlyrian, Thracian, Macedonian, Anatolian-Asian, Syrian, Egyptian, Libyan, Numidian, Mauritanian Principates.....better off under seperate rule, rather than unified?
This will kill a lot of people, animals and plants, but it will save (a much smaller number of) people, animal, and plant's lives in the Pompeii and Herculaneum areas of Campania around Vesuvius to the south.
Rome, the capital of the world's greatest empire is blanketed with volcanic ash, extreme heat, poisonous gases and particles, and pyroclastic flows of lava, killing the population unable to escape and entombing it and destroying and entombing built and natural structures of Rome under volcanic waste products. This could well include the Emperor Titus, who I presume was in the city, depending on the proximity of his residence to Palatine Hill, the thoroughness of the heat and ash soak the very first surge teleported from Vesuvius gives the city, and any willingness or lack thereof for the emperor to evacuate sufficient distance if he survives the first surge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD ---- the latest theorized, if not consensus, date for the eruption of Vesuvius is the range of October 24–25 in 79 AD.
The Roman Empire was at a pretty strong point of extension of integration and exploitation and economic integration around the Mediterranean, its provinces and cities connected by trade networks moving bulk and luxury goods long distances, and cross-cultural exchanges occurring at multiple-levels. The whole system was very urban-centric, the countryside serving regional cities, and above all, Rome-centric, but the Legions of the Army heavily manned the frontiers, with road networks supporting transit parallel to the frontiers and back to the center.
With Rome and the Emperor destroyed, the theoretical and practical knowledge of the Romans and their subject peoples in government, technology, agriculture, mining, military matters, sailing, philosophy, is far from lost. But the system is now 'headless' without its 'command center', Emperor, much of its Senatorial class, and their court/bureaucratic servants. A major market for the consumption of the empire's production is also gone or in need of repair or restoration.
Practical ability to command should default down to the Legions out at the frontiers and Provinces, which should be much more powerful than provincial civil, Senatorial, and bureaucratic administration, but the latter, and local elites, should not be irrelevant.
The Roman Principate's 'muscle memory' would cry out for these power elements at the frontier and provinces to 'refill the gaping hole' at the missing center of the empire in Rome or close-by in Italy especially where there are masses of concentrated people possessing Roman citizenship. This would even be the case even though the rebuilding tasks would be monumental.
But at the same time, the elimination of Rome and its suburbs in the near-term, while extremely, extremely, ominous and disturbing, removes an enormous 'taker' from the provinces and an enormous drain. Could deliberate planning by some Legion commanders or provincial leaders in some provinces, or force of circumstances [Legionary/Provincial competitors for Rome and Italy stalemating each other's efforts?] provide an opportunity to turn some of the larger Roman provinces effectively into separate states, that are better-off, more innovative, and more stable on their own in the long-run? Gallic, Spanish, Italian, British, Illlyrian, Thracian, Macedonian, Anatolian-Asian, Syrian, Egyptian, Libyan, Numidian, Mauritanian Principates.....better off under seperate rule, rather than unified?
