Mentius is a Roman colony on Gor. Rather than sit by as the Priest Kings preyed on them, the Romans were clever enough to capture technology from Priest King raiders and use it to voyage to Gor.
What they found astonished and insulted them: A civilization that was largely a cheap knockoff of their own. Gor used Roman colors for their castes, used Roman architecture and weaponry, and even used Roman iconography, but in a way that limited creativity rather than fostered it.
Worse yet, institutions like marriage, fashion and religion had been watered down to a weird version that obsessed over misogyny and the suppression of women, rather than exploring the potential of human imagination and commerce. The Romans found this to be a cowardly mockery of their ways.
However, they have found Gor to offer vast potential profit as well, and easy pickings at that. Much as has been said about another recent empire, the business of Rome is business, and Gor offers rich resources. Gorean cities are largely disorganized and factious, given to fighting with one another in brief skirmishes instead of organized campaigns. They would make simple prey to a Roman legion, just as the Gorean mindset falls short of the Roman ability to organize and advance society.
All of this begins at Mentius. Mentius is a bastion of Roman culture where true Roman values, rather than their Gorean replica, are experienced. It is where legions organize expeditions against Gorean cities and where diplomats offer a better way to Gorean humans, presenting liberation from the yoke of divisive, chauvinistic ideology.
Mentius is a reflection of the past that is the image of Gor's future.
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