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“Rousing far-future sci-fi novel…grand old-fashioned space opera.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)In the entire year 2448, the interstellar Empire of Rome spans an area almost as huge as the far-flung colonial worlds of the United States of America.Caesar Numa Pompeii continues to be rebuilding his shredded empire after the catastrophic war that his predecessor, Caesar Romulus, waged against the United States. Battle’s end still left Romulus in a nanovirus-induced coma, captive of Caesar Numa.Numa has under his command line a powerful living weapon—a patterner, an augmented man with the capacity of synthesizing vast amounts of data into actionable brains.Now, Numa has lost his prisoner, and his patterner may have turned on him, while the U.S.S. Merrimack has lost the commander of her Fleet Marines, Colonel T. R. Steele.Situations take a Mobius change when fanatical devotees of Romulus rescue their fallen leader from his tortured captivity and fashion him in to the most capable patterner ever created. Romulus is again, more insanely excellent than ever. But without his queen, all the power in the universe means nothing at all. Romulus will move heaven and Globe and space and period to rescue his precious Claudia.Admiral John Farragut returns to the area battleship Merrimack in an attempt to brain off the impending temporal catastrophe. Former and future hinge on a critical moment when time broke once before in the distant legend cluster known as the Myriad.