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Creating a Province
As a result of a peace die roll, an enemy may try to become a province. The governor must forward this application to the Senate, and it costs 8 prestige, with the forwarding governor receiving a stipend as above. Once at the Senate, the governor (or any former governor) may sponsor the Consultum as in normal Consultum procedures. Another Senator may counter propose that the new territory becomes part of a province. Some NPC Senator automatically does this on a 5,6 if no PC wishes to offend the governor. The proposal that has the highest successful score wins. The governor who conquered the new province receives prestige equal to the value of the army list if the province is created. If the territory is added to an existing province, the governor/ex-governor gets half the prestige and the counter-proposer gets the other half. There is no additional stipend. If no one wins, the country remains independent but any governor or ex-governor may resurrect the proposal in any future time.

If a new province is created, a province POTENTIAL ENEMIES/POTENTIAL RAIDERS/REVOLT table is made for the new province. The province has enemies contemporary to the 110BC period listed in DBA 2.2 (to state the obvious, NOT the Roman armies) as its POTENTIAL ENEMIES. It also gains the POTENTIAL ENEMIES of the province from which it was conquered. The REVOLT army is the army that was defeated to create the province. RAIDERS requires looking at the map, normally the best way is just to list the RAIDERS for the province that was used to create it.

The admnistrator may also exercise some judgement. If the Romans conquer Illyria oir Gaul, for example, the size of Illyria and Gaul should be compared with the number of armies defeated in the conquest. If relatively small compared to the size of the province, the new province should be considered just part of the whole enemy nation. In this case, the new province gains its old nation as an enemy. In this case, the aggression level of the NATION from which the province was created is increased by 1.

Another area of judgement is ‘contemporary’. For example, there is little known about the tribes beyond the Danube along what became the frontier of the Pannonian province. So if the Romans conquer Illyria, the administrator should consider adding DACIAN II/52 to the Province Enemy and Raiders list, as the new Roman province would have contact with the Dacians, and how they fought in 90BC is anyone’s guess.

If the conquered territory is added to an existing province, the considerations are the same, and the province to which the territory is added gains additional enemies/raiders as discussed above.

Extortion and Prosecution
Both praetorian governors and legates can indulge in larceny, extortion, selling of citizenships and various other forms of corruption. Roll on the following table, which gives the proceeds in terms of gold and the resulting loss of prestige as your official reputation is tarnished.