Cruuxius Tiberius Carico (Ætas ab Brian)

* These biographic facts in the table are ATL assumptions due to lack of archival evidence.

Carico's Vaposcurr were a revolutionary leap forward for the empire. His designs were so finely tuned that virtually no improvements on them were conceived for centuries.

Among his more controversial actions was the movement of both the greater and lesser Libraries of Alexandria.

Throughout his rule Carico made a very systematic and law bounded taxation system. He enforced Rome as the sole capital of the Empire. Having a mobile capital had political and military benefits and kept things flexible, but Carico insisted that a centralised authority was critical for the logistics of coordinating the massive amounts of resources needed for the empire. By doing this however, the empire's capital would become more vulnerable, leading to Roma being among the only central cities to have a substantial permanent garrison

In 797(44) Carico annexed the Kingdom of Mauretania (a Roman ally and client since the Punic Wars) after it's Roman-appointed king Petronax Thalamus died. Carico divided the kingdom into Mauretanias Caesariensis and Tingitana as Caesarian provinces.

It was under Carico and his immediate successors that the last voices of isolationism were silenced one way or another. As Carico saw it and regularly proclaimed, ever since the Macedonian Wars the world was clearly no longer content with leaving Rome be, and that Rome had to go out of its way to set the rules if it didn't want to be imposed upon.

In his memoirs Carico described his vision of creating an 'imperial federation' with all the benefits of both empire and republic. This was regarded as partly idealist, partly ridiculous by most people.