Revelation of the VIII

These are the names of the sons and daughters of Mars who came down from the heavens to give the Mandate to the children of Prometheus: Jadaron, Meriole, Constel, Moab, Ruden, Sfigoson, Nilrine, and Vasha.

The Revelation given to us by the VIII, serves to be a reminder to the will of the Gods for the purpose of Mankind. It begins.

The Beginning

There was Mars, Son of Jupiter and Juno, the strongest and most fearsome God beside Jupiter, and who made the Bellator, who sprang forth from his fist. And he spoke to them, and they fought, and he was glad. But for too long they fought alone amongst each other, for each only comprehended that finger which they came. Seeing this the Goddess Minerva intervened at the request of Mars, and in time they grew in understanding of their brethren, but slowly.

As they listened to the voice of Minerva they unified and became not separate fingers, but a fist. Seeing this Mars came to his father Jupiter and asked for his children to have dominion over the stars. Jupiter, seeing the advancement of his sons children granted the request.

And so it came to pass that Mars gathered all his children together and bestowed upon them the title of Bellator, meaning warrior, and revealed to them their dominion and the glory of it's beginning and the splendour of it's end amazed the Bellator.

After building ships to sail through the heavens, the Bellator came across the ruins of another people, frightened by what they saw, some Bellator wanted to turn back, but Mars spoke, "All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. Prepare for war my children, for dark days are ahead and you must prepare."

Scavenging the ruins of those before them, the Bellators built their Empire on the foundations of their precursors, and discovered a great Citadel which they made their Capital.

But all was not good for soon the Bellators encountered a race of puppet men, who threatened their entire existance. Remembering that there were multiple children of the Gods the Bellators decided to unite all of the children together under their Empire.

Those that tried to resist were crushed under the might of the Bellator hand, and none ever managed to best the Bellators might, for they were the Sons of Mars. Soon all of these lesser beings saw themselves as Bellaors, and forgot what they were. Many of the Gods were angered that their children were conquered by the superior Bellators, and many ceased to grant the prayers of the Bellator, and soon all the Bellators knew of was war.

The Cataclysm

The Bellators belief that they were the most powerful, even more powerful than the Gods the angered, was shattered with the arrival of the Messorem, the children of darkness, the most advanced beings that the Bellators had ever encountered. They entered the stars through the Citadel, which the Bellators figured out too late was a trap set by the Messorem. Everything that the Bellators weapons were made from was a trap, for the Messorem had destroyed those who came before them, and it was then that the Bellators remembered the words of Mars, "All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. Prepare for war my children, for dark days are ahead and you must prepare."

While their domain crumbled over time, the Bellators fought the Messorem from star to star, world to world, and city to city. If necessary, whole worlds were sacrificed and abandoned to the Messorem.

Inexorably, the Messorem conquered, enslaved, or destroyed the Bellators. Growing desperate, some Bellators made repeated offers to the Gods, but they were rejected for their actions against the Gods children, and many of the Gods saw it has just punishment for their arrogance.

In time, the Messorem had killed or enslaved every Bellator in the galaxy, and then receded back into the darkness once more.

The Children of Prometheus

Prometheus and Epimetheus, two titans, were spared imprisonment in Tartarus after the Titanomachy, the War between the Titans and the Olympians, because they had not fought alongside the other Titans. Instead, they were given the task of creating man. Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Minerva breathed life into his clay figure.

Prometheus assigned Epimetheus with the task of giving the creatures of the earth their various qualities, such as swiftness, cunning, strength, fur, wings. Unfortunately, by the time he got to man, Epimetheus had given all the good qualities out and there were none left for man. So Prometheus decided to make man stand upright just like the gods did and to give them fire.

For this Jupiter was angered, for Prometheus had done this without his permission, and so he commanded his servants, Force and Violence, to seize Prometheus, take him to the mountains, and chain him to a rock with unbreakable, diamond chains. There, he was tormented day and night by a giant eagle tearing at his liver.

Man being seen as Prometheus' creation, were cursed with a deceptive heart and a lying tongue. All evils were bestowed upon Man's nature, and Man was to suffer for all eternity.

Fortunately for Man, a ship the size of a city carrying sleeping Bellators came down from the heavens and landed on the other side of the Tiber. When the ship touched the ground the Bellators awoke to a disheartening sight. Only eight of them had survived the voyage through the stars and the great sleep.

The inhabitants of Rome not knowing who they were, amassed a Legion to inspect the ship after five days. When the legion arrived they waited another two days before the Bellators revealed themselves to the Legion. Frightened they tried to kill the Bellators, but were massacred on the fields outside of Rome.

Using a flying boat the Bellators made their way to the Imperial palace, there the Bellators explained that they were the Sons of Mars, and told the story of their people, the priests confirmed it to be true.

At this the Bellator leader, Jadaron, was declared Emperor of Rome. It was then they revealed that humanity couldescape the evils that had been bestowed on them, by fulfilling their position of having Dominion over the stars, and by destroying the Messorem when they returned because All of this has happened before, and it shall happen again.

Hearing this, the citizens of Rome agreed, and were shown the wonders of the Bellator's wisdom.

A/N: So yeah, it is a MASSIVE rewrite, but I really could not figure out how to make Roma Invicta move foreward. After letting it sit, I really want to explore the idea of a ship of Cryogenically frozen protheans and what their effects upon a first century Rome could be, and with them training the Humans with their technology. Oh and if you are wondering why I didn't announce this with my other story. I honestly just didn't want to get anyone's hopes up that I would continue it. Don't worry though all chapters are not going to be sacred scrolls, and timelines. Oh, and review, follow, favorite...Whatever YOU are comfortable with!