What if the Battle of Thermopylae ended differently? What if the Persians had conquered Greece? What if the battle covers up something else entirely? This is one of the missions for the Time Patrol trying to keep our timeline intact.

2. Scout’s Mission: Ides of March
Travel back in time to Thermopylae, Greece.
15 March 480 B.C.
The day on which King Leonidas and his 300
Spartans are finally overwhelmed.

3. It is 480 B.C. The world’s population is roughly 100
million humans. Troops from Rome, far from being an
Empire yet, march against the Vientes, the richest
Etruscan tribe. Zhong You, a disciple of Confucius dies.
The Imperial Treasury at the Persepolis Palace in Persia
is completed after three decades of work. Artists begin the
detail Musicians and Dancers on the wall paintings in the
Tomb of the Lionesses in Tarquinia, Italy; it will be
completed a decade later.
Some things change; some don’t.

4. For her 24-hour bubble in time, Scout is a
priestess from the Oracle at Delphi.
Her mission is not apparent, as she is with
Leonidas; with defeat inevitable.
Then the Sybyl, Pandora, appears, coming from
the Persian lines. What ill does she have to pass
on to mankind this time?

5. The Prophecy of the Delphic Oracle
“For you, inhabitants of wide-wayed Sparta,
Either your great and glorious city must be wasted by Persian
men,
Or if not that, then the bound of Lacedaemon must mourn a
dead king, from Heracles' line.
The might of bulls or lions will not restrain him with opposing
strength; for he has the might of Zeus.
I declare that he will not be restrained until he utterly tears apart
one of these.”

6. As the final night for the Spartans begins to give way
to their last dawn, Scout must face Pandora and find
out what the real target of the Shadow’s plan for this
day is. But perhaps Pandora is there for an entirely
different reason, having nothing to do with our
timeline?

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