It is 41 BC. Brutus, last of "Liberators" who killed Julius Caesar, had been defeated in battle. The Roman Republic will finally have...peace? Cassius Galerius Clarus, veteran legionary of Legio IX Hispana, gazes at his modest villa, granted as reward for service in the Gallic Wars. He contemplates the weary peace, and the future.

Salvē! Si vales bene est, ego valeo.