A.N I wont bother with a disclaimer as i have one pre written in my profile page. Quick sidenote: this chapter and it's lenght is does not indicate chapters of less or more lenght- that's why it's a prologue.
Before we start,i just wish to give credit to Marquis Black,whose work, "Emperor" and it's universe which are being used in this story and to the writer IanIan48 for inspiring,helping and directly contributing to this story. I hope this story lives up to it's spiritual and direct predecessors.
Olympian Empire,New Olympia,Year 20XX
The normally noisy and unsleeping city of New Olympia, fomerly known as New York before the days of the empire had seen to the need of it's renaming,was very quite.
Once the proud capital of the Olympian Empire, the great experiment of the great empire's demigod founding fathers,it was now little more than a symbolic Trophy for the European Imperial Federation to toy with, as the remaining Olympian Military forces were crushed or scattered.
It's citizens, once proud sons and daughters of the empire, suffered by gaining wounded pride and being treated the inferior of the technologically superior European Imperial Federation, some were dead, a last attempt at bravado by organising armed militias as they attempted to resist the invaders, none of these rebels were left alive however.
The Federation had seen to that.
Throught the city, european soldiers bustled thru the houses,looking for any rebels they might have missed.
as gunshots and screams resounded from the rebellious areas, and quite acceptance from the others, one partiular area of New Olympia was eerily quite.
The Olympian Square of Honor was filled to the brink with people,some from the treacherous American Resistance,others from as far as Europe, but the majority consisted of citizens of the conquered empire who wanted to see the end of the conflict that had bled the empire dry,and end it would.
The firing squad were soon set up as the car carrying the minister for defense for the conquered olympian empire arrived and the minister was brought out, jeers erupted from the crowd, who saw the minister as ruthless and bloodthirsty.
she had resisted her brother,the emperor Nicolas's peaceful approach toward their neighbors across the pond and had pushed for a more violent approach.
And the fact that she had most of the senators in the Olympian senate in her pocket in that time only helped drive that sour point home.
Bianca looked tired and defeated, as she stood in front of the firing squad that would soon take her life. Bianca knew that all hope was gone now. she barely registered the head of the firing squad speak to her
"Minister Bianca di Angelo, for charges of genocide,regicide,and crimes against humanity, you have been sentenced to death by firing squad, do you have any last words?"
Bianca smiled sadly, last words seemed like such a faraway possibility a year ago, but all she had done she did for Nico, he was emperor because of her, he was still alive now because she insisted that she be the one to muddy her hands and keep him free from the blame.
She had killed Perseus for her brother, so he might parade around the empire proudly while she was hated by every citizen of the empire who saw her as bloodthirsty and ruthless.
She was uncertain how she would voice all her regrets to the world but as her executors stiffened at the head of the squad's yell of 'ready', she smiled sadly as she came to grips with all her mistakes.
She could in theory, shadow travel away, but she wanted to face her mistakes,to pay in blood for all the lives she had destroyed, and so she stayed.
"Aim!"
She saw Thanathos out of the corner of her eye nod sadly, and she knew her time had come, she smiled sadly.
"Forgive me ancestors" she said sadly as the head of the firing squad pulled down his raised arm and shouted the word everyone wished to hear.
"Fire!"
the gunshots echoed loud and clear, as the minister flinched at the first shot then crumpled at the face of the other shots. everyone cheered loudly it didn't matter if they were rebel,conqueror,or conquered they all cheered and hollered,glad that finally the conflict could be declared officially over.
As the crowd dispersed and even the firing squad had left, a shadow fell over one of the nearby golden apple trees, a figure was emitted from the shadows, the figure clutched a white rose in it's right hand and wore the gold and black armor of the Olympian Emperor. the figure dropped the white rose in front of the dead body of the minister sadly.
"See you in Hades, dear sister" was all the figure could mutter as tears flowed free from his red and black eyes,drenching his almost feminine pale skin.
And, as quickly as he had appeared the Olympian Emperor vanished from sight.
Olympian Palace,New Olympia,Two Days Later
"Your Majesty, The Prime Minister of the European Imperial Federation is here"
Nico rubbed his nose tiredly, "Send him in Angela and take the rest of the day off and celebrate will you?" it was no secret after all, that the celebrations were still going on in the Amercian Honor Square, as it was renamed a day ago.
"Yes Your Majesty" replied Angela, his personal and most trusted secretary.
The Oaken Doors of his personal quarters opened and a man wearing a northern style tux entered "Pleasant Evening to you your Majesty" Henry King, Prime Minister of the Imperial Federation said in greeting.
Nico was not bothered at all by the northern sword hanging by the prime minister's belt, knowing that his own olympian sabre blades were in a shadowed area just in case the meeting turned sour.
"Have a seat prime minister" he offered as he manipulated the shadows to move a rosewood chair so the prime minister could sit.
An act of intimidation done to remind the prime minister that even a chained and defeated giant could still kill.
"To what do i owe the pleasure?" he inquired softly,his silky voice echoing across the mostly empty room when they were both at last seated and comfortable
The prime minister smirked and offered a manila folder to the emperor.
Nico opened it cautiously, and was left speechless by it's contents.
The prime minister smiled "yes, Mr. Gerald Sanders of the resistance has been pushing for the dissolution of the empire, or at least the handing of total control of it to the revolutionaries"
Nico's eyes hardened then and he found his voice "And risk going back to the anarchial State these countries were in before the Empire was set up to control the anarchy and set up order?" he asked angrily.
The Prime Minister shrugged "Now that he has the backing of the Imperial Parliament, he is not afraid to throw his weight around Your Majesty" he said neutrally
Nico was furious " Does he want to lose the Drachma as the currency? and go back to the unstable former american dollar?!"
His voice and tone softened "The Empire has to stay, there are too much risks if the republic was to be set up again"
The Prime Minister stood and went to a nearby window "You stand to gain much from the revitalization of the Olympian Empire" he noted calmly.
Nico stood up angrily and pointed outside furiously
" I have been Emperor for 10 years now prime minister, those people out there, they are my people! I am their emperor I have a duty to the state that I must fulfill and think of first!" he insisted stubbornly and passionately.
The Prime Minister opened the double oakwood doors and shrugged
"Convice Sanders Your Highness, and maybe the federation can be moved to the revitalization of your precious empire" he said in a neutral tone as he walked out.
As the heavy oakwood doors slammed shut, Nico smiled sadly "Veni,Vedi,Veci" he said in a regretful tone.
He pressed a button "Marianne, call all my cabinet members for a meeting tomorrow" he said calmly.
"It is done your highness, they will be there by tommorow" the mechanically altered voice of Marianne replied.
Nico sat down and opened his best brandy, he poured himself a glass and drank and poured again "it is done" he somberly noted as he drank and drank again
Until he had at last drank himself to a sweet dark sleep.
It was all over now, The Time of the Olympian Eagle was over, the European Phoenix would surely rise from it's ashes all in due time.
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Post A.N to ensure maximum understanding of the political situation at the beginning of "Olympus Maximus" do allow me to outline a few changes in human history and the history of the work it is based on that are relevant to the developement of the geopolitical shenanigan in this story
1. The Northern Sun has been set up as a replacement of the United Kingdom which fell after a civil war, The Northern Sun then fought for some time in the continent until at last the European Imperial Federation was set up with the Northern Sun as it's head
2. The Asian Military Union was set up in the years following the European Continental wars and the Asians too united under one super state with the Chinese and the Japanese at the helm
that's all i will reveal for now, i do hope it has heped make my work less confusing to some. if you have any questions PM me and i shall try my best to answer them.
this is my first story and obviously flame comments won't help me much and so they will be ignored. if there are any beta readers willing to help me do PM me.
by the way,as you may have noticed this is a new prologue, i noticed the mistakes and thought, ah well, might as well fix it. First Chapter will be out soon
Naturally, this is the part where i ask you to review :)
-GodsofOlympus