Aulus Plautius
Aulus Plautius was a Roman Legate, and the commander multi-legion army during the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD.
A "listant relation" to Emperor Claudius by "a previous marriage", Plautius gained prominence in the Roman army as a legionary commander on the Danube frontier. By 43 AD, he was an experienced military leader around the age of 40 — a "tough-looking man" never seen outside of his "especially ornate" armour and his long, red cloak. A skilled warrior, leader and admistrator, he was nevertheless not the first choice to lead the XX Valeria Victrix, the II Augusta, the IX Hispania, and the XIV Gemina on the Briton campaign, a commission initially meant to go to his rival Galba until the latter fell ill at an inopportune time. Seizing his chance, he acquitted himself well, winning two battles against the Britons on his own; however, before the final march on Camulodunum, Emperor Claudius himself travelled to Britain to officially take over as leader of the operation. Aulus Plautius perceived this as a move to rob him of the credit for the victory even though he had been, and was still, doing all the actual work.
Though not enough to drive him to outright treason, he consequently resented Claudius and his advisor, and was thus hoping to persuade the weaker-willed Claudius to return to the mainland and let Plautius finish the job himself (GAME: "Non-Player Characters" [+]Part of The Legions of Death, Loading...{"namedpart":"Non-Player Characters","1":"The Legions of Death (game)"}) when Marcus Cornelius Falco, whose Second Legion had become separated from the bulk of the Roman army, arrived at Claudius's camp alongside a strange group of travellers. These people were actually time travellers, including at least one Time Lord and their companions, who were investigating the interference of a Time Lord with the history of the Roman conquest; this interference was responsible for the Second Legion having been ambushed and mostly wiped out. Since he had political reasons to do so, Plautius argued for Claudius to believe the strange interlopers about the existence of a new, undiscovered Briton army trying to ambush him, hoping that this would be enough to scare Claudius into returning to Rome. However, he had no particular interest in the prisoners' fate beyond the extent to which Claudius could be convinced of their truthfulness. (GAME: "In the Roman camp" [+]Part of The Legions of Death, Loading...{"namedep":"In the Roman camp","1":"The Legions of Death (game)"})
