Caesar Jular'ius was a Morsian senator and later rebel in the Morsian Kingdom. Caesar was a loyal senator to the Morsian Kingdom during its later existence, known as one of the most powerful senators of his time. His popularity and skill afforded him a lot of power, and during the succession crisis of 16,700 BBY, his power led him to partaking in a civil war where for three months he battled two other senators unsuccessfully for the crown. His war was ended when Gaius Rutil'iar of the 1st Legion returned to quell the civil war. After defeating one of the senators, Gaius marched on the capital leading to Caesar throwing near all of his forces at him. They were defeated, and his lack of defences afforded the final rebel Marius Prat'orus to attack his hold on the Morsian capital of Volcanesis Magna. Fleeing, he sought refuge with Gaius and pledged his loyalty to the legate. Following the war, Caesar was allowed back into the Morsian Senate where his swear of loyalty helped to cement Gaius as the first leader of the Morsian Military Dictatorship.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Caesar was born within the Morsian Kingdom in the waning few centuries of its existence. He entered politics from a young age and swiftly rose into the ranks of the Senate. His diplomatic abilities and eloquence in dealing politics gained him fame and prominence, which afforded him much power. At the end of the life of the kingdom, Caesar was one of the most powerful men in the realm outside of the King.
Rebellion[]
When the penultimate king, Caesar Tarqui'in, was killed there was not initially a crisis on who to succeed him as he had his son Pompinius Tarqui'in. However, only a short while after Pompinius had ascended to the throne, he too was assassinated. With no childen, he had no familial successor and had not named an heir before he died. This caused a sudden succession crisis which was not aided by the First Morsian-Sicc'orax War which Pompinius had declared before he was killed. With no king, the Morsian Senate struggled to both fill the void and direct the war.
Caesar, along with a few other powerful senators in the form of Veparius Lar'us and Marius Prat'orus, decided to take advantage of the chaos and get themselves crowned king by force. Calling on his loyal followers and buying mercenary armies with the wealth he had accrued over his career, he took control of the capital and began fighting the other senators who had done the same thing. This began the First Morsian Civil War.
Stalemate[]
Despite his wealth and followers, he was unable to make much headway in securing the rest of the nation. Whilst he controlled the center of it as well as the capital, he did not have enough good quality militia or mercenaries to rout Marius in the north or Veparius who had taken control of most of the south of the realm. Various battles and skirmishes were fought, but no headway could be made by either Caesar or his competitors. None of them could get the Royal Morsian Army on their side as they were busy fighting the main war, and so with a lack of quality troops, for three months the rebel senators were locked in endless stalemate.
Arrival of the 1st Legion[]
It was not to remain a stalemate forever, however, as word did manage to eventually reach the legions who were busy fighting the Sicc'orax Republic in the far south of the land. When they heard of the civil war, the 1st Legion turned back to restore order and would eventually be followed by the other two legions which formed the army. Caesar doubled his efforts to dislodge his rivals before the army could arrive but to no avail. The legion, headed by Gaius Rutil'iar, initially encountered Veparius in the south who tried to stop them. The effort was fruitless as the legion stormed through the militia and mercenaries of Veparius, who was assassinated himself, and the legion bore down on the capital and Caesar.
Defeat in the war[]
Seeing the army brush through Veparius greatly unnerved Caesar, who swiftly called Gaius and the legion an "enemy of the state, people and Kingdom of the Morsians". He called on all loyal citizens to give him reports on the movement of the legion so that he may track and stop it. Very few did, as the legion was becoming popular with the Morsian people due to their success. Gaius himself decided that he also wanted a bid for the crown, and his success in defeating Veparius and making great headway in ending the civil war brought him a lot of popularity with the people, who at that point just wanted an end to the war. With his own militia and his legion at his back, Gaius was mostly unhindered in his progress to the capital.
In desperation, Caesar committed almost all his forces to stopping Gaius which only resulted in a series of utter defeats for his militia and mercenaries. Noticing the lack of forces suddenly both on his invisible borders and defending the capital, the remaining senator Marius rushed it before Gaius could get there. In the ensuing one sided Battle of Volcanesis Magna, Caesar and his remaining men were defeated and Marius took control of both the capital and Morsian Senate. Caesar fled in disguise whilst Marius forced the Senate to recognise him as King and crown him King Marius I.
Fearing retaliation from both Gaius and Marius, Caesar ran to the legion and grovelled to Gaius. He apologised and begged for protection in return for him swearing loyalty to Gaius. With this being agreed by Gaius, Caesar joined him in his march to the capital and their ensuing storming of it. Marius's forces fled before the legion arrived and they were let in without hassle, the gate being left open and welcoming for them. Marius fled the capital and disappeared whilst Gaius took control and consolidated the kingdom. True to his word, Caesar loyally proclaimed Gaius as the new king and with little persuasion got the Senate to agree to it. However, Gaius no longer wanted to be king and instead declared the realm a dictatorship in the form of the Morsian Military Dictatorship.
Later life and death[]
Following a restoration of order, Caesar had lost most of his wealth and popularity due to the civil war costs. He remained true to his word and was loyal to Gaius for the rest of his career, though he never recovered his popularity. Both due to his rebellion and swiftness to change sides to Gaius, he was labelled a troublemaker and untrustworthy. He tried many times to change his labelling, but it never came to fruition. He was eventually assassinated in a street of the capital some years after the end of the war, in 16,647 BBY.
Legacy[]
Caesar was generally remembered differently by those who knew him both before and after his rebellion in life and by those historians who studied him after death. Those who knew him in life before the civil war may have described him as fair and loyal to the king up until the succession crisis, where he feared for the kingdom and wished to stablize it by having himself as king. Many who had a favorable outlook of him cited his rebellion as something he did out of loyalty and fear rather than personal gain. Others who knew him better after his defeat called him shifty and untrustworthy, always looking for a new person to attach himself to, which was often the person with the most perceived power at the time. Historians viewed him with somewhat more complexity, initially viewing his rebellious actions as something done out of fear before it morphed into something he continued for personal gain and a lust for ultimate power.