File this under "Stuff I'll Get Back To After I'm Done With "Star Knight"."
The story begins with an old professor calling his old proteges into his office. They discuss a long-missing colleague, a man who tracked down a lead on a lost Roman legion, when the old professor reveals the receipt of a distress call from their colleague not 24 hours before. The former students, now players in their own right, agree to act upon the revelation. Each commits a protege of their own to a team to investigate.
The investigation goes wrong when it reaches the location where the legion disappeared. An unknown enemy ambushes the team and scatters them; this happens during a storm, covering up the display of otherworldly energies going on. One of the team finds the missing academic, and together they escape the enemy, but he is now trapped with the old man on the other side- where he finds a Roman Empire in full bloom dominating the world. Another also escapes the ambush and remains on our side, having taken out an enemy attacker and traced the ambushers to their forward base; this leads to the revelation of a global conspiracy bent on world domination.
The story escalated when the Romans invade our world in a brazen manner, and it is revealed that this Roman Empire is not trapped in the high point of the post-Marion reforms, but rather is a fully industrialized high-tech power with fantastic arms to go with their fantastic ambitions. The conspiracy here gets flushed out into the open because they have to immediately push for open total control to fight the Empire; the revelation includes fantastic technologies long speculated in the UFO/Ancient Alien scene.
It's revealed that this conflict stems from events over 12000 years ago, and the lost Romans were not lost at all.
Oh, and there's giant robots. LOTS of giant robots. Because I like giant robots. Other details to be decided. Lost Legions vs. The X-Files by way of Panzer World Galient.
Not sure if it counts as "fanart" or just nicking your idea, but the idea of the Roman Legions possessing mecha interested me enough to try drawing it.
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