How can I use Roman traits in a government or Corporation in a cyber punk setting?
Rome into cyberpunk
Matthew Nguyen
Bentley Sullivan
Organization. Its the one great thing that made Rome so damn powerful. Say what you want about politics and emperors and HAIL MUH LEGIONS all you want, but in the end their roads, census' and diving up of lands to lesser kings and lords made them last for close to a millennium in some shape or form.
Jose Diaz
But how could that be applied to a corporation?
Nathan Wilson
Expendability. it wasn't discipline that characterized Roman victories, it was a conquest-loop based on always being able to recruit reserves.
Gabriel Wood
Have child "interns" who take executive cock up their asses until they are old enough to be given a deparent to run. This is an accepted part of corporate culture and families maneuver for their kids to be some rich dude's cock sleeve for the opportunity it will provide said child later on.
Dead successful executives have festivals in their corporate office in which a performer puts on their death mask (or a holoprojection of their face) and reenacts their triumph over a business rival.
Christopher Bennett
If you're not already reading the comic Lazarus, I highly recommend it, OP. The way the ruling families are organized and the social structures they impose, especially the family Carlyle, might just be what you need.
Andrew Baker
Do you know where can I download it?
Nathan Gomez
Remember that the Roman Senate wasn't elected. Any Patrician who was worth a certain amount was automatically eligible. Now imagine the government run by a Senate of corporate leaders
Samuel Walker
a focus on Public Baths would also be interesting, how they divide and seperate society, maybe have some sort of plague that seperates life into outside/unclean and inside/clean and so more of life has to take place inside bathhouses?
Colton Allen
Circumlunar Circus: Down the Gravitas Well You Go!