The House of Optimus DvX

Download or read book The House of Optimus DvX written by Roger Belusa and published by Roger Belusa. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get both the eBook and audio book for the price of one. For free audio book contact us at: [email protected] It could only be one man with absolute power. Power to decide who worked for the trading house Optimus Quirinalis, power to decide over everything and everyone, power to decide over life and death. This man was Dux, the supreme leader. Marcus Optimus was Dux of Optimus Quirinalis, the house of Optimus. During the reign of the emperor Trajan, the roman empire expanded to its greatest extent. It stretched from Iran in the east to Scotland in the west, from Germany and Belgium in the north to Algeria and Egypt in the south. He was the first emperor who was born in a non-patrician family, no longer living in Italy. Son of a senator and a general and he himself successful and popular general, Trajan was in year 97 adopted by Emperor Nerva. Twenty years later, it was estimated that a quarter of the world's population lived under the rule of one man, the emperor of Rome. The army was enormous, 25 legions, nearly one hundred fifty thousand legionaries were stationed around the empire in active duty. Rome's mighty war machine needed constantly new weapons and other goods to function. In some camps legionaries were directly responsible for paying themselves, in others new weapons were purchased in large quantities and a portion of the legionary compensation were taken as payment. It is not difficult to imagine that they constituted a gigantic market for the traders and that they fought, sometimes until death, to be the first to sell and bring home the profit. This is the first book in the series: The House of Optimus.