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807 AUC.

Emperor Nero awoke, starry eyed, and sleepy. He was confused, what had happened, where am I, who am I, what am I doing. He vaguely remembered a word, brutus,and a date, the ides of march, now what were those???

He entered his palace, and asked who was he and what was he doing. His court and servants, assuming he was testing them told him he was Nero Cladius Divi Claudius filius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the emperor of the glorious roman empire, who ascended to power just yesterday with the full approval of the praetorian guard. He asked to be dismissed, and looked closely at himself, the way a warrior would, and realized his flaws. He was a fat unworthy uneducated brute without an affinity for anything else . He kept having visions of the conquest of gaul, and an otherworldly being promising him the chance to be a god. He then meets his wife Augustina, 14 years old, and pregnant with probably the heir to rome. He however has a daughter, borne to his wife when he was thirteen. He looked at a map of his domain, and decided that persia was a barbaric civilization, and it needed a hellenic guiding hand. For some reason he was zealous, even though he did not know why. He knew the gods existed, and didn’t know how or why. He dreamed of hellenizing the whole world, or bringing it under latin culture. He decided, he was to increase his powers with the religious authority, and use that to increase his power as a whole. One day he was approached by a man , named Archimedes. He knew Archimedes, he died 200 years ago. He called for his guard, and apprehended the man. Later he visited him in prison.

“Who are you.” he asked “Archimedes”

“I am Archimedes, the one and only.”

“That is a lie, he dies, but 200 years ago.”

“Wrong I am alive, and wish to give to you on behalf of my organization the عصبة القتلة

a gift. This scientific proof the the earth revolves around the sun; the heliocentric model. “

“ Who are you why would you give me that.” “What is your organization doing”

“Expect more contact, you may have something we want”

“What do you mean,” Nero asks, but Archimedes has already vanished. For the next year Nero would end up solidifying his reign, dissolving the senate, and appointing a new governor of judea, a man named Yeshua...
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