The Fall of the Ruling Dynasty
At the council it was agreed. Georgia had to pay. The Ayyubid matter was to dealt with another time. The Georgian kingdom will pay for what they did to our noble lord. At the council every strategos and general was present. The body of the great emperor had been buried like Christian customs and it was housed in a mausoleum. It would stay there until the great church of saint Zigavinos would be finished. Then it would be laid to rest in the church of his fellow name holder. We gave our emperor the honourary title saint and magnus or the great. As it was he who stopped the collapse of the Roman Empire and gave it again it's ancient glory. It is said that Pelekanos Solomon hanged himself when he heard the news of the dead of his friend. Wishing to serve him in the afterlife. Eitherway the great horse commander Pelekanos died in Ani still waiting for orders of the Emperor.
Captain Carolus was still on his mission as the Turks had besieged Tarsus. But thanks to Carolus' speed the Turks were beaten and driven out of our lands. But Carolus was still hot on their trail eager to finish the old archenemy of our empire for good. The Imperators and the rest of the chief Roman military were catching up and told each other their stories and experiences. Every time the stories were bigger and the experiences more death escaping. But nevertheless they al liked seeing their old friends. However in the corner two men stood. They were new but they had shown courage on the battlefield. It were me and my best friend Ammonios Palaeologus
The plans were made and the Legions were ordered to muster at the Citadel of Aleppo. Every man would take the army that had served under him with him to their new target. First the plan was to muster at the Eufrates but due to increased Georgian acivity at the borders this plan was given up and Aleppo was chosen. However as good as it all would seem. Efstathios time as emperor ended as sudden as it began. The new emperor was going to get his army from the hills of northern Cilica where he had fortified his army when he was ambushed. He couldn't escape and he tried to fight a way through the Georgian lines but it had no use. The newly appointed emperor died after being twelve days in the seat of Imperial power.
The new emperor, He had served in the army of his father. The only son of the great general. It was the son conceived at the wedding night. It was the one who choosed to serve under his father's army as an officer of the heavy swordsmen. It was I Constantine Basilacius, son of Draganos Basilacius. The only Basilaciusian boy who actually had blood of the great grandfather in his veins.
After hearing the news of my uncle's death my grandmother according to rumors died out of sorrow. My father, Draganos the builder, didn't forbade me to become emperor seeing what happenend to his brother he simply asked if he could be fired out of the army. He didn't want to serve anymore. There were lots of more talented generals and he prefered to govern a city. I made him governor of Jerusalem. And with his departure, the last of the generals who fought in the war against the Turks under Emperor Saint Zigavinos the Great had left the militairy. The top of the Roman military now existed out of the noble council of senators and the new generals. I tasked my good friend Ammonios to take the open position in my father's army.
My first act as the new Augustus was to send a letter to the Mekurian king.
Honoured king of Mekuria...