Okay so the good news is I'm writing. The bad news is I'm trying to come up with a word for an advance army of men which sounds vaguely Roman. Besides being soldiers, these men are also scholars of a sort. It is there job to assimilate the native people or destroy those that oppose them. I've been doing some research on Roman units and titles, but I'm not finding anything that fits or sounds sinister enough. I plan on making a word from a real word.