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A/N: Hopefully people are reading this. It's fun to write.

By the way, there's a reference to my story I, Claudia in this chapter. Cececatus and Claudia live in the same time period and same 'verse so it only makes sense. This chapter's kinda short because I couldn't think of much to say. Not that anyone's really reading right now.


The flying of the ship wasn't too challenging. But finding a place to go – that proved difficult. Nobody really knew what to look for. Perhaps a deserted place, in order to make a base of sorts? Though many planet's looked uninhabitable. Some of the soldiers were getting a bit annoyed and drinking unwatered wine by then. This was barbaric and some blamed such behavior on why the gods. Another trouble was that there weren't birds in outer space any so augury – meaning the interpretation of the gods' wills from watching birds - was impossible.

Eventually one soldier (historians cannot agree on which) found a lever in the ship's control room, on the day in Junius when Fortuna is usually honored, and accidentally sent them far through the universe by fiddling with it. Now we know he'd accidentally hit the Timewarp Drive activator.

They called this new galaxy they'd found Transsylva, for the quick journey there was to them like riding rapidly on horseback through (trans) a forest (sylva). Later the name for our galaxy has evolved into Transylvania somehow. Though Transsylva is the more scientific and ancient term.

The planet they chose to land on was given the name "Stellannia" because it was a world in the stars. Not much time later somebody important changed it to "Transsexual" when very drunk. Nobody knows who did this or what the reasoning for it was. It's one of those things. Anyway, there were more important matters at hand as they set up a colony.

A town was built and named soon Vaverly after it's first leader - Marcus Vaverlius. Many soldiers married their girlfriends in the hope that they'd be able to figure who fathered which of the various children being born. The colony needed a second generation and people had been getting bored on the ship. These hasty weddings probably didn't do much good. You know how women can be when there're lots of brave young men around. Though at least it made things more organized. Paterfamilias are a vital part of the community. If each household doesn't have someone firmly ruling over it they how will the entire town or country have a good leader? Family was very important to our ancestors. This ideal has remained even to this day. Remember what happened to Domina Lucretilla? Remember how her brother swore to somehow avenge her dreadful fate?

Though there was another tradition that was less easy to maintain. Of course there were no people on the ship who'd been a priest back in Rome. This was just a bunch of soldiers. So people stuck together the various religious things they could remember. This system worked well enough. People worshiped their household gods as they had back home. Then they'd go to a building set up as a temple for another major, especially involving sacrifices. A lot of people were asking for help early on though this excitement died down a bit later.

In Rome it was a priest's job to keep the calendar properly working. 38-year-old Servillia had been a Vestal at one point, though now she was the plebian soldier Salpirus' wife. Since he was good at mathematics it was decided, after she checked the stars for, that he would invent a new calendar. This was not unlike Earth's calendar at first. It did have 16 months instead of the original 12. The sun shone equally all year 'round on their new planet so things didn't need to match up with the seasons. This is why we've got a nice even 16 months/64 weeks/384 days per year. Also, the year system was reset so the year they landed on their new planet was year 1.

Since there were far less people in the colony a slightly simpler government was set up. It was to be a republic of sorts. Basically, five people were elected as a counsel of sorts for four years and one elected to be a leader for two years.

The first 'leader' was Salpirus (yeah, the same person who devised the calendar. That guy was popular). He was a legionary of plebian blood, though he'd been wealthy back home. His wife being an ex-vestal probably helped. Naturally he became dictator for life at the first chance. This happened to be a month after being elected, and for reasons nobody can actually remember. Because of how Rome had been ruled for the previous century or so nobody really cared. The colonists just enjoyed their new freedoms and got really drunk more than they should've. Children grew up to be adults who'd never seen Earth. Stories were told, books were written about it. Though few really thought of that old place it remained in our memories well enough that we never forgot it.

So began our beloved planet's colonization.


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