I wondered about that, but I get the impression that Primus Pilus is mostly about running a Legion under the Legate? IE, a key part of the main Legion admin/hierarchy?
Whereas this guy is an auxiliary centurion rather than a legionary (so little known about auxiliaries, hurray!) and has been sent to Sort Out The Silver Trade in Dumnonia, so he's sort of on secondment to do a specific job as a kind of governor's deputy, in an area where there aren't many conventional legionary troops.
Possibly this would really be a civilian job, but because I am trying to reconcile Eagle of the Ninth with history, I need it to be an auxiliary one, and there does seem to be some evidence to support centurions being assigned to do that sort of thing.
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Date: 2013-04-21 01:10 pm (UTC)Whereas this guy is an auxiliary centurion rather than a legionary (so little known about auxiliaries, hurray!) and has been sent to Sort Out The Silver Trade in Dumnonia, so he's sort of on secondment to do a specific job as a kind of governor's deputy, in an area where there aren't many conventional legionary troops.
Possibly this would really be a civilian job, but because I am trying to reconcile Eagle of the Ninth with history, I need it to be an auxiliary one, and there does seem to be some evidence to support centurions being assigned to do that sort of thing.