Pompeius Magnus

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Pompeius Magnus was a virtual representation of one of Aya's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description

Aya took command of a trireme to meet with the Roman general Pompey, hoping to turn him to Cleopatra's side.

Dialogue

The captain of the trireme played a board game with a crew member.

• Crew member: Hahahaha! Just like the Battle of Salamis, Captain! I have you trapped! Hahahaha!

The captain moved a piece.

• Phoxidas: Here comes Themistocles. And that is the game!

The captain won the game, disappointing the crew member. Meanwhile, Damastes held up a gold circlet.

• Damastes: (Shit!) Phoxidas, why are we delivering all this treasure? We could retire to Lesbos with this amount of gold!

Aya fired an arrow at the circlet, lodging it in the mast.

• Phoxidas: What say you, desert rat?
• Aya: If that chest doesn't make it to Pompey, this ship won't, either. We crawl through Hades to deliver it if we must.

Aya took back the circlet.

• Phoxidas: Fair enough. Back to work, you slack vlakos (bumpkins)! Damastes, my trusted shield boy, get to it! Eh? We've been hired to bribe Pompey, to save a queen and to win a kingdom. The usual fare for us mercenaries, eh?
• Aya: Strike oars!
• Phoxidas: Steady, now. Rocks and rubble ahead.
• Aya: I'm not blind. I see the skerries.
• Phoxidas: Your third voyage, and already you bark like a command crew.
• Aya: Ha, I enjoy watching spittle get caught in your beard, Phoxidas.
• Phoxidas: Let's not be thrown into the sea. That's no death for such a hero as me!
• Aya: A real hero could swim to save himself. I see them, I'll not be sucked through a scupper for nothing.
• Phoxidas: Now you are just trying to impress me...
  Sails on the horizon, there! Those colors are not from Rome. What mess has this poxy Queen dragged us into?
• Aya: Ptolemy's ship. Sent by the Order of Ancients, no doubt.
• Phoxidas: What business do they have with Pompey?
• Aya: Pompey's armies will give Cleopatra the throne. They mean to prevent the alliance before it happens. We must hurry!
• Phoxidas: Poseidon's piss! The air is already choked with smoke. The seas will steam near the volcano. We should keep our distance if we don't want to burn.
• Aya: Is that Methana? She hasn't burst for hundreds of years.
• Phoxidas: Wouldn't surprise me if she burst now for us. Let loose a storm of sea dragons alongside her.
• Aya: You don't believe in that nonsense, do you, Phoxidas? Come on, now!

They were approached by Ptolemy's ships.

• Aya: Ready yourselves! Let's show these traitors they chose the wrong pharaoh!
• Phoxidas: A rain of fire! Order the shields!
  I see ships bearing down fast!
  We've got these malaka (assholes)! Target their rear wings. They're full of oil! They'll burn like camel shit!
  Call for ramming speed! Gut them like fish! Alalaaa!

They sunk the ships.

• Aya: Hah! That's the last of them down!
• Phoxidas: Yet still no sign of your faithless Roman.
• Aya: Be careful with your jibes, Captain. Pompey is a needed ally, and no mean general. We didn't sail all this way just to offend him with insults.
• Phoxidas: I am who I am. I do not change for kings or queens. I left my wife and kids behind for the same reason. No one sane accepts me.
• Damastes: I accept you! We accept you. Alalaaa!
• Phoxidas: These hundred nautai (sailors) is enough acceptance for me. It's hard to say goodbye to those who don't accept us, but it is also the only way.
• Aya: Is it? Pompey will be at the appointed place, off Thera's coast. Sail on!
  There, I see him! Pompey sails north.
• Phoxidas: Don't rush! There may be patrols ahead.
• Aya: Are you ordering me away from a fight?
• Phoxidas: Hades' shit, woman, of course not! But I am not keen to die protecting a Roman, especially one who can afford his own protection. You know, you really should join this trireme. You'd fit right in.
  Firebombs ready! Call for them when we pull near!

They fought the ships attacking Pompey's octareme.

• Aya: Pompey is taking heavy fire! We must stop them!
• Phoxidas: Keep at the poxy bastards! We'll break them, or take them down with us!
  One more remains! That was brave work. There might be more to you than royal courtesies.
• Aya: Mind your tongue, old man! Or you'll discover I'm better at swordplay than sailing.

They sank the last ship.

• Aya: They're going down!
• Phoxidas: And that's the game! Well fought. Now let's find this metrokoites (motherfucker). I've never met a Roman general face to face before. Ah, don't worry, Aya, I'll be on my best behavior.

Aya and Phoxidas boarded Pompey's octareme with the bribe in tow.

• Pompey: Civil war in Egypt and a mercenary trireme comes to my aid? In the midst of war with Caesar, I find it odd. Who in Hades are you?
• Phoxidas: Well, we could have let you die...

Aya bowed.

• Aya: Pompeius Magnus. Greetings and friendship from Queen Cleopatra.

The crew members opened a chest of gold.

• Pompey: Cleopatra offers gold to win my favor, once I've won Rome? Is that what friendship means to your queen?

Aya threw Pompey a coin.

• Aya: Whose face graces that coin? Do Roman women receive the same honor? An alliance with Cleopatra is a union of true power. She wants more than an ally. She seeks a king.
• Pompey: A valuable friendship, indeed.

Aya and Pompey looked at the latter's fleet.

• Pompey: Agreed. My fleet will soon be ready for Egypt.

Outcome

Aya secured Pompey's support for Cleopatra.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Origins