Roman Timecop
By Mike Ward
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Lucius Tiberius is a Timecop in a Roman Empire that should not exist. The Roman Empire has stood for more than three thousand years. That fact is well known. What is not so well known is that the Roman Empire collapsed 1,600 years ago.
That was the real world but in the real world someone messed with time. Lucius Tiberius knows the name of the man who changed time and he also knows the location of the time loop in which that man is kept frozen. On Lucius’s Time Screen time loops and time possibilities play out. Most of them are fanciful and many of them will never exist but one thing is sacrosanct. Nobody must be allowed to mess with time. For the Romans have glimpsed the other worlds that exist through the portals of time and although Rome exists in almost every time portal, none of the other worlds have Romans in them.
It is the mission of Lucius Tiberius and the other Timecops to police Time and the penalty for traveling through time is almost always death for those who do not work for Time Central. Rome exists in a world that has been at peace for centuries but there will always be those who are disenfranchised or disaffected. The technology for time travel is cheap and accessible to many but those many can be turned into few and the few can be turned into none.
A signal on the Time Field around Ganymede means someone there is building an illegal time transmitter. Lucius Tiberius and three other Timecops travel to Ganymede. Their mission: to find out who is interfering with time and send them to their deaths.
Mike Ward
Mike Ward was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Florida, United States with his wife and two children. He is the author of two novels, two non-fiction books and six series of novellas:Parallel Realities seriesThe House on Mars seriesJacksonville Jack seriesStephen Haggerty Assassin seriesLisa Molin Assassin seriesDangerous Scotsman seriesHe is also the author of 60 short stories and novellas
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Roman Timecop - Mike Ward
Roman Timecop
by Mike Ward
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Roman Timecop
You know the penalty for changing time,
Lucius Tiberius said. Surely you are ignorant and surely you are a fool but you must know that.
Screw you Time Man,
the man said.
It is you who are screwed,
Lucius said. He shot the man four times in the chest. His gun was set higher than it needed to be and the man was blown into the wall.
A good kill,
Livius Pullo said.
Find the woman,
Lucius said. She is the real leader, this man was just a tool.
Behind them the secretary was filling out the necessary paperwork on her Comm PAC. Under Roman Law the man had been entitled to a fair trial and if he was found guilty a judge would pass sentence. However, Time was so dangerous that Time Law trumped Roman Law. A Timecop was therefore a policeman and a judge and was permitted to pass sentence in the field. The sentence was almost always death unless the Timecop missed or his gun misfired.
The female was beautiful,
Gaius Apollinaris said. I wonder who she is?
Gaius was examining a Time Loop that had been dragged out of time. The loop was insubstantial and was barely holding but it was clear enough to have caught the woman in the act of giving an order. She was half in and half out of bed and was in the act of pulling a shirt over her head. Her breasts glistened in the faint light. The date below the time loop showed that it had been pulled out of a sideways time field four hours prior. They had been unable to pull it out of their own time. Thus, the woman might not exist in their time, or her name might be different or she might be married to a different man. However, the woman did exist in their time and that was all that mattered. This was the fourth time machine she had tried to build and there was a trail of death behind her. Unfortunately none of the deaths was her own, so far they had only caught underlings.
Clean this mess up,
Lucius Tiberius said to one of his men. He watched as the errant time criminal was zipped into a black body bag. The man would not be buried. His body would be flipped into a sideways time field where the planet Earth did not exist and it would float forever through a dark and dead solar system with a sun that had failed to fire.
The journey back to Earth took a mere seventeen minutes by fast freighter. On all the worlds where Rome had collapsed, mankind was only just getting out into space but the Romans had had space travel for more than five hundred years. The freighter shot past the giant iron ore carrier heading back to Earth from the mines on Ganymede. The iron ore carrier was more than two miles long and could only land using the equations developed by a Roman mathematician for frictionless travel through a planetary atmosphere. Those equations did not exist on the other versions of Earth even though the mathematician who devised them had lived in the city of Florence in almost every version of Earth that the Romans had surveyed.
The freighter entered Earth’s atmosphere and its outer shell began to heat rapidly. Lucius watched as the pilot flipped a switch and the entire ship was suddenly enveloped in shiny pink tendrils. They saw small points of blue light as the air molecules in the atmosphere impacted the field generated by the frictionless drive. The incredible number of calculations necessary for the frictionless drive to operate was performed by servers built into huge man made caverns inside the Apennine Mountains north of Rome. Theoretically those computers could be mounted in Earth orbit but if Rome did not like a ship entering the planet’s atmosphere then it was a simple step to switch off the signals that fed the frictionless drive on that ship.
Multiple points of light began to appear around the ship as the atmosphere thickened. Below them Rome grew larger as they sped towards it and the frictionless drive field expanded as the servers below began to anticipate the path the ship would take. The pink field extended down in front of the ship and the blue points of light expanded into an indigo hue which surrounded the whole ship. Lucius stared out of the ship. He found the indigo field incredibly beautiful and to him the patterns were almost like dancers in the sky. The mathematician who had first devised the equations for frictionless drive had been called Fulcanelli and he had written those equations almost 400 years ago. Lucius’ mind automatically translated the date to 1632 AD which was the year on all the Earths where Christianity reigned supreme. It was known that it was the chaos caused by the conversion to Christianity that had caused the Roman Empire to fall on so many worlds. Lucius wondered what it would be like to live on a Christian world but it was not something he wished to experience. There were no Christians on this