The current Caesar of the Terran Overlord Government, Nicholas Julianus has openly declared his commitment to eliminating the Commonwealth and all Renegades, external and internal, during his lifetime.
Rise to Power[]
Preceding the death of First Consul Warren Mischenko, the Overlords and the Senate elevated 26-year-old Nicholas Julianus as the next (and present) Caesar. As Prefect of the 72nd Praetorian Guard, assigned to protect the Overlord of the Lictor, Julianus had blackmailed his boss into giving him the "dirt" files on all the members of the Senate. He then used a combination of blackmail and intimidation by his Praetorians to get the Senate to elect him Caesar.
Conquests[]
Under Caesar Nicholas Julianus, the TOG seized the Mission Stars District and Medina Province from the Commonwealth. By this time, the KessRith had been reduced to a fraction of their former empire, and were no longer a TOG priority. From the time the TOG had first commenced hostilities toward the Commonwealth in the 6720s, Commonwealth forces had been thrown back from province after province: the Grand Dukedom of Potsdam, Somm Trau Province, the Grand Dukedom of Alesia (in 6783, under the liberal Warren Mischenko), and later under Caesar Nicholas Julianus, the Grand Dukedoms of Nisus and Grenbern. Though TOG commanders were annoyed that the Commonwealth did not just give up, they were aware that in campaign after campaign, the resistance was stiffening, and Commonwealth forces were fighting better.
Recent Events[]
A propaganda picture of Caesar Julianus.
It is under Julianus' reign, during the dawn of the 6800s, that the red "R" symbol started appearing with increasing frequency across TOG space. A sign initially used by an underground group called "the Renegades" in honor of the Renegade Legions, it has since been adopted in solidarity with the movement by Renegade Legion units.
Caesar Julianus has ordered the Overlords and the Lictor to use any measures necessary to eliminate the Renegades. Nevertheless, a campaign of bombings and assassinations has hit the outer districts of the TOG in recent years, focused increasingly against VLCA sites and other communication facilities. This is clearly coordinated with the Renegade Legion strategy of destroying TOG communications. At the present rate, TOG worlds along the border with the Commonwealth will go completely deaf within the next ten years.
Two very powerful Overlords have been sent to the Orion and Mochov Districts as Inspectors-General. Their reports have been highly critical of the civil and military administrations there. In Mochov, Overlord Kitrrich Dulor has made progress in finding "The Fury," a charismatic and elusive leader of the Renegades in that District. The Overlord has narrowed the list of suspects to just a few, including a Spectabilis Senator named Mikenus Koralis.
The Caesar has just appointed his closest advisor, Overlord Aldron "Blood" Mannius, to head the "Internal Peace and Unification Program, Orion / Mochov Districts." Mannius served with Julianus in the 72nd Praetorian Guard when that unit helped Julianus take over as Caesar. Mannius' reputation for ruthlessness has recently been reinforced by his brutal crushing of the Renegades in the Ssora District. This Overlord's methods are inhuman, evil, and effective. His new post gives him complete political control of Orion and Mochov, ruffling many feathers among his fellow Overlords. Mannius commands all military forces in these two districts, as well as a large force of the Lictors that he has used so frighteningly in the past.
Due to the Commonwealth's stubborn defense of Saguntum III (6815-6818), Caesar Julianus lost interest in the region of Shannedam County, and the TOG military in the region suddenly found its supplies cut in half and a quarter of its troops being transferred to the Keserdal County offensive.
There is reason to believe that that Caesar Julianus is ready to give more attention to Shannedam. In 6825, he replaced the commander of the regional TOG forces with Lieutenant-General Marcus Spartivalcus, a veteran of ferocious reputation. Caesar Julianus also declared the worlds the TOG had acquired in the region to be a Military Annexation, with Thapsus as the capital.
Profile Notes by Overlord Gracchi (Renegade's Honor)[]
According to the Overlord Magnan Domitius Gracchi, Nicholas Julianus may be 64 years of age, but he appears much older than that. There are persistent rumors that secret antithanatic drugs and treatments have already kept him alive for centuries.
While the average holographic display of a person is less than a meter tall from the projection surface, it is noted that Julianus's display is a full meter in height.
Nicholas Julianus keeps close tabs on the goings on of his Overlords and will personally scold them if they disappoint him, or relinquish them to his personal "entertainers" should they ultimately fail him (a fate worse than death).
"If he had a failing, it was that he had no true idea of the sheer, stupefying size of his empire.... If Caesar Julianus had a particular strength, on the other hand, it lay in the fact that he did not believe in half-measures." - page 364, Chapter 43, Renegade's Honor