Year: 5027
Since the 48th century, when the Zagruzians invaded the Solar System and took over all the colony planets, especially Mars which was a key planet for the beginning of planetary colonization in the mid-21st century and ended up falling in the 50th century year 4976 AD, leading to a serious crisis on Earth that ended up generating the Crisis of the 50th century, powers such as the Great Slavic League was dismembered into several micro-regions, the Pan-Italian Confederation suffered with the loss of Dalmatia to Croatian revolutionaries, the Copenhagen Union was destroyed,in the New World, the Accelerationist Republic of North America balkanized and began the American Warring States period, the Fourth Gran Colombia disintegrated after the assassination of Generalissimo Estebán Fernández in Guayaquil, the oligarchic republics that were once part of Brazil were already fighting among themselves for resources.
In Far East, chaos was widespread, the Pan-Chinese Confederation was humiliated by the Green Horde and the Mongols with their robotic horses took over several territories of the Pan-Chinese Confederation, in the Indian Subcontinent, accelerationist states fight with Hindu nationalists and Muslims, from Kashmir, in the Middle East, the Khajirite Caliphate contains the 36th Fitna, the Grand Duchy of Israel contains another rebellion of Druze Muslims and Ismaili Muslims, the Sultanate of Ankara invades the Sixth Kurdish Republic, on the Iranian Plateau, the Marabas Caliphate managed to defeat the last remnants of revolutionary forces from the period of the Fourth Republic of Iran.
In North Africa, the Fifth Mamluk Sultanate dissolves amid Moroccan rebellions and Algerian accelerationist revolutionaries, the sadistic caliph Abu Soliman Saiyd, of the wicked and vile Dashinimite Caliphate was assassinated and its reign of terror was undone, in Central Africa the Bantu Confederacy was balkanized and the most powerful nation in Africa for centuries was destroyed, In southern Africa, the Eighth Boer Republic defeated the forces of the South African League and with that more separatist revolts spread throughout the territories of the South African League.
But all this would be nothing compared to the Zagruzian chaos, on January 8, 4994, in the Scottish city of Glasgow, large spaceships invade Scottish airspace but soon an MVX class missile hits the city and instantly incinerates over 4 million people and a JHL class missile hits the city of Elgin disabling any energy pulse in the British Isles and leaving that similar region at the beginning of the 19th century, with this began the Zagruzian invasion of the British Isles, the last campaign was that of Cornwall, a series of large-scale Zagruzian attacks destroyed the British army and its leader Marshal Jhonatan Pendragon fought bravely until the end of the winter of 4996, when the last human resistance was eliminated and for the first time in the history of the world, a portion of the earth was under extraterrestrial control.
In the year 4998, the Zagruzian Crown Prince, Jahrat VI, sent emissaries to the European nations about accepting to become vassals in exchange for them not invading their territories, the response of the European nations was the formation of an anti-Zagruzian coalition called the "Continental Coalition" and thus began the Jahratist wars, as this war was for the survival of the humans and as the Old World still suffering from the Crisis of the 50th Century, joins its forces and tries to make a desperate defense of Europe.
At the beginning of the 51st century, Western Europe was on its knees under the Zagruzian power, Northern Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, France, Germany and the Pan-Italian Confederation itself had to accept be vassals or be eliminated like the British, so the Zagruzian colonists began to inhabit territories destroyed by the Jahratist wars, now the world saw the rise of a non-human people beginning to have influence on Earth.
On the Italian peninsula, the Doge Ricardo Berdinazzi, in the year 5017, he is assassinated and Doge Amadeo Bianchi takes his place and in the Pan-Italian Confederation there are pro-war protests and just like the last bastion of Europe, the Pan-Italian Confederation declares war on the Zagruzians which continues until now.
Rome
Underground Castel Sant'Angelo
Now...
It was another grey day in the Eternal City, Doge Amadeo Bianchi was trying to make a peace treaty with the Zagruzians, but their leader Klotash, the Reaper, continues to plunder Northern Italy and leaves the Italian economy in tatters.
In the Castel Sant'Angelo, famous for the heroic defense of the Swiss Guard in the Sack of Rome in 1527, exactly 4500 years after the event, everything was falling apart in Italy, but the pan-Italian government was creating an ultra-secret project in the basement of Castel Sant'Angelo, this was project No. 245678, nicknamed "Progetto Lancia del Destino" involved in this project was the chief scientist, the illustrious Paolo Jacobo, responsible for the creation of the first anti-matter grenade and creator of a quantum gigantifier that increases and decreases the size of an object , the leader military was the Lieutenant Colonel Claudio Ambrosio , war hero who defended the city of Siena with 20 thousand soldiers while the Zagruzians had about 150 thousand soldiers coming from all over the galaxy, with such a feat he was compared to Flavius Aetius in the Catalaunian Fields , so a battalion army elite Pan-Italian led by Captain Andreas Giovanni Tagliaferri, a brilliant military man of the new generation who was born during the Zagruzian invasion, with him in his elite battalion were the best engineers in the Italian peninsula and the best tank drivers.
In a room lit by LED lamps powered by nuclear fusion energy, Paolo and Claudio were looking at a panel that showed progress on Project No. 245678, and Claudio says:
"We managed to send a baby turtle to the past and in about 5 minutes later, he returned at the age of fifty years, we managed with this feat to go back in time for a few minutes, if If we can send a person to the past we can change history and make humanity stronger against the Zagruzians, we must go back to Late Antiquity and try to form a new Western Roman Empire." says Claudio.
Paolo looks at Claudio and says:
"I don't know if we should do such a thing, the human body is a bit different from a turtle and unlike the turtle there can be some genetic mutation in humans, so only in case of extreme necessity we will send people to the past." says Paolo.
In that same room was Andreas and two other soldiers, the Mezenga brothers, tank drivers who carried out the legendary defense of Rome in the year 5019, the youngest Mateo Mezenga asked to Paolo:
"How many people can be taken to the past?" asks Mateo.
Paolo looks at him and says:
"The maximum we have been able to carry so far is about five people or objects, but we have never used the full capacity," says Paolo.
Mateo then snapped his fingers and asked:
"What if Captain Andreas and my brother and I were sent to the past?" asks Mateo.
When considering such a thing, Paolo became furious and said:
"TIME TRAVEL IS NOT A TRAIN OR CAR JOURNEY!!!!! YOU CAN BE SWALLOWED INTO A BLACK HOLE!!!! I WOULD BE EXPELLED FROM THE PAN-ITALIAN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE WITH THE CHARGE OF TREASON!!!! DON'T THINK ABOUT THIS ABSURD IDEA!!!!" says Paolo.
Older brother Vicenzo Mezenga also disapproves of such an idea, but Andreas takes sides and says:
"I feel that if we want to defeat the Zagruzians we will have to change all history as we know it, the Italian peninsula is the same as it was in the final years of the Western Roman Empire, we only have about 4 million citizens living here, we will not defeat the Zagruzians, they will do something worse when they enter Rome, we know that they use us humans as slaves and they use humans for scientific experiments like the beastmen, if we want to save humanity we will have to go back at least 4000 years to save humanity, no one on the planet manages to defeat the Zagruzians, we have to go back to the past and from there create a resistance for humanity." says Andreas.
Before Paolo could shout harshly at Andreas, a siren sounded on his tablet and everyone listened in alarm. What was once an atmosphere of confusion became a deathly silence.
Paolo looks at everyone who was there and says with a choked voice:
"Gentlemen, it is with great regret that I say that the Siena Siren is only played when a state surrenders or ceases to exist, an example was in 4996, our Doge achieved peace, now we are vassals of the Zagruzians, these damned ones now rule Western Europe and will soon make the world kneel to Prince Jahrat VI, this means that we will be assimilated and they will rule the Earth." says Paolo.
Claudio takes off his cap and orders:
"Captain Giovanni, soldiers Mezenga! Enter project No. 245678! This is an order! Go back to the past and save humanity from the Zagruzians! Rebuild Rome and destroy these damned ones, millennia before their invasion to our solar system! You have one main objective: humanity must prevent the rise of the Zagruzians!" orders Claudio.
Paolo didn't say anything and didn't repress him, the Mezenga brothers took some ammunition and some miniaturized tanks from the Second World War, some miniaturized weapons from the mid-19th, 20th and 25th centuries, They put everything in a bag, Andreas takes a tablet with all the scientific, medical and industrial knowledge of centuries, a bag with several seeds and so they enter the cabin.
Paolo goes to the panel, activates the necessary buttons to activate the time machine and he puts on the headset and explains:
"You will have about 2 hours and 30 minutes to change history after that, you will either be sucked into some black hole or you will come back here.You will be transported to Late Antiquity in Italy, sometime between 476 and 774 AD, this is as far back as we can go, your objective is very clear to strengthen Rome and prevent the Zagruzian ascension over our solar system." explains Paolo.
Andreas and the Mezenga brothers nodded in agreement and Paolo activated the special button, thus the three disappeared without a trace and a clock began to mark the timer in an increasing way until the expected time of 2 and a half hours, according to the project.
Claudio comes close to Paolo and pats him on the back and says:
"We did the right thing, now we just have to know if they will accept such a burden or if they will simply abandon the mission and try to lead a normal life." says Claudio.
Paolo looks at Claudio and says:
"I hope they accomplish their mission, because not only the fate of Rome is in their hands, but that of the entire world." says Paolo.
Continuatum...