Corruption of Rome Ch. 05

Corruption of Rome V By John Bear Jr. The next morning Nadia met with Cassia and Marius in his office. She explained that she was, in fact, an agent with the Ministry. Nadia's parents were slain in an attack on her village outside of the empire. Wandering the wastelands in search of food, she was picked up by the Minister and transported to a training camp in the future. Nadia lived as a university student for several years, undergoing increasingly intense training. She explained that the Ministry is a Christian splinter group that emerges several hundred years before their present time. Their leader, Decencio XII, spreads his ideology by force across Eurasia, often under the guise of health and sanitation. Decencio's ideas are the psychological equivalent of the yet to be thought germ theory. He proposed that all of Nature emanated from the human mind and that, by controlling the strongest human force -- desire -- the world would be saved from our humanity. In sum, Decencio c...