• lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Also, “High Gothic” being essentially bastardised Latin, which honestly fits with the theme of chasing a glorious past with only fragments of knowledge left about it. Ave Deus Machina!

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Anglo-Saxons looking at the remains of a Roman aqueduct a few hundred years after the Empire’s fall: “Bruh, giants built some amazing walls to keep out invaders in the past.”

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Space Romans, Space Vikings, Space Barbarians, Space Persians, No Space Hittites though that’s too crazy

  • a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Something else that also has space Romans is Ultima by Stephen Baxter. Much of it takes place in an alternate timeline where the Roman empire still exists in the 2220s.