(Moons of Jupiter, September 14 1099 AD.)

As the alien invaders called “Klarons” laid waste to Ganeymede, the Persian king and his staff fled aboard their wooden sailing ship to the skypath that orbited the desolate moon of Io. This world was mostly uninhabited, except by a couple thousand Mayan Indians from South America. The only natural species on this forsaken moon were several kinds of fungi, small insects, and a brownish looking fern.

Hours later the Persian fleet rendezvoused with the king and his flag ship. There were thousands of Persian soldiers aboard, veterans of the space wars who were time-hardened soldiers. But they all were afraid for their families who were being held captive by the aliens back home.

Finally, after a couple hours of deliberation, the Persian king decided to surrender to the Klarons. The terms were not so bad. The aliens simply wanted control over their fleet of wooden space ships so that they could enter the skypaths (technology could not function in them). They planned to help the Persians conquer their life-long mortal enemy: the ancient Romans who lived on Mars.

The Klarons didn’t mention anything about Earth. They pretended not to know that it existed, or that it was home to the most numerous and poorly defended group of humans there was.

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This account is based on the SkyPath Crusade Epic Poem