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Birth of an Emperor
Edward Sallow is born an NCR citizen just outside of The Boneyard in the year 2226. After his father was murdered by raiders, his mother sought the Followers of The Apocalypse's protection. He started taking classes free of charge, and would be an exceptional, yet unpopular student with his peers. -
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The Torch of Knowledge
A span of time where Caesar was a member of the Followers of the Apocalypse. -
Into the Canyon
On a mission for the Followers to learn the dialects of the Grand Canyon tribes accompanied by a physician named Calhoun and a Mormon Missionary named Joshua Graham. They stumble upon a cache of books about Julius Caesar & The Roman Empire, which Caesar would study for two weeks before they were captured by the Blackfoot Tribe to be held for ransom. -
Certain Steps
Caesar saw the weakness of the tribe, who were currently at war with seven others in the region, outnumbered and bound to lose. Sallow decided to take certain steps. Sallow taught the tribe how to properly maintain their firearms, properly shoot targets, and reload ammunition, after which he began teaching them how to make explosives and drilling in small unit tactics, all of which was based on old books Caesar had recently read. Once they were ready, Sallow led them against the Ridgers. -
Total Warfare
When the Blackfoot tribe refused to surrender, he ordered every man, woman, and child killed. No exceptions were made. The Blackfoot moved on under Caesar's lead, surrounding the Kaibab's tribe. Upon their refusal to surrender, Sallow took their envoy to the ruins of the Ridgers' village. The piles of corpses were a shocking sight to a tribesman who had only experienced small examples of war, but what Sallow had led was total warfare. -
Rise to Power
The Kaibabs promptly surrendered rather than suffer the same fate, then the Fredonians, then all the remaining tribes. Caesar was acutely aware that the root cause of all the problems was tribal identities, leading to internecine conflict and preventing any substantial recovery. He knew what had to be done. He had to erase all traces of tribal identities and substitute a single, monolithic culture in their place. -
Birth of an Empire
When his confederation of tribes was large enough, Sallow crowned himself as Caesar, leader of the Legion. He deliberately patterned it after imperial Rome. Calhoun was sent back west to warn that Caesar should not be interfered with, while Graham stayed with Caesar, becoming the Legion's first legate. In the decades that followed, the Legion conquered minor holdings in Utah and Colorado, while the entirety of Arizona and a sizeable portion of New Mexico were brought under its control. -
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Vini, Vidi, Vici
Tribes were forcibly assimilated into the Legion, while cities and their inhabitants lived on as subjects of the Legion. Each tribe Caesar fought against and assimilated were primitive even by the standards of the post-nuclear world, with nothing even remotely comparable to what existed out west. No towns, no roads, no meaningful industry. They fell to the superior forces marshaled by The Legion. By 2274, The Legion was the dominant and most powerful force east of the Colorado. -
An Old Friend now a New Foe
Believing his confederation of tribes to be large enough, Caesar enacted the final phase of his plan. His scouts discovered Hoover Dam, which he planned to use a symbolic crossing to his future capital: New Vegas. They established a foothold at Fortification Hill, and a slave trading outpost at Cottonwood Cove. Shortly afterwards however, The NCR's Army moves it's army in mass to occupy Hoover Dam and annex New Vegas. -
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Tensions Rising
During this period, not many large offenses or defensives occur, not until the burning of Fort Aradesh, east of Fortification Hill. The burning of Fort Aradesh can be seen as Caesar's formal declaration of war against the NCR. -
So you want a War?
During the First Battle of Hoover Dam, Caesar's forces under the command of the Malpais Legate marched against the NCR garrison at Hoover Dam, in an attempt to take the strategic asset and river crossing. However, Graham's troops were defeated when Ranger Chief Hanlon led them into a trap in Boulder City. For his failure, Graham was lit on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon. This was the worst defeat in Legion history. -
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Gathering the Troops
In the time after the battle, Caesar focused the Legion on acquiring more manpower and better leadership. He acquires a new general, Legate Lanius, The Monster of the East, Vulpes Inculta, the head of the Fruumentari-Caesar's infiltrators- and Lucius, the head of the Praetorian Guard. Fourteen more tribes were assimilated during this period, and the Fruumentari lead several attacks on NCR encampments and settlements, such as the burning of Nipton, Siege of Nelson, attacks on Forlorn Hope, etc. -
The Siege of Nelson
A Legion raiding party under Decaunnes Dead Sea stage an attack on the town of Nelson. Dead Sea had assumed there would be lots of NCR Troopers, -
The Nipton Lottery
After tricking the Powder Gangers & corrupt mayor of Nipton to kidnap some NCR Troopers on leave, Vulpes Inculta's Fruumentarii surround the town and order everyone into the center of town, where they drew tickets, each one listing off a different punishment for what the Legion perceives as 'Gross Misconduct'.