Theobromos - Events The Company Caused or Exploited

Events The Company Caused or Exploited

This list only includes events in known history, or myth. Future exploits by the Company are described in the books.

  • The disappearance of the Ninth Legion in Roman England. In The Graveyard Game it was revealed that the Ninth was wiped out by Brigantes, who were in turn killed by Enforcers travelling with the Legion. Joseph was there as coordinator. Nennius supervised the cleanup. No trace of the battle was left.
  • The expedition of Sir Francis Drake. Part of the temporal paradox that creates the Company involves a discovery of artifacts by Drake's men on the island of Santa Catalina. In fact it is not known exactly where, or indeed if, Drake landed in California. Accounts that have him landing at the location known as Drake's Bay may be false. It is possible he landed in what is now Oregon. Drake, in the stories, is working partly for John Dee, who already has some artifacts in his possession. One of Drake's men happens to have been a witness to Nicholas Harpole's martyrdom.
  • The San Francisco earthquake. As recounted in The Children of the Company, this was a major operation to coordinate snatching many different items immediately before the earthquake and the subsequent fires. There was also a "Dance on the Eve of Destruction" party set up by the cyborgs, partly to say goodbye to the vibrant 19th century city that was about to be destroyed.
  • In The Children of the Company Labienus is present when Carthage is destroyed and its population enslaved, fulfilling recorded history and ensuring the dominance of Rome. Part of the Roman justification for the conquest is that Ba'al Hammon, the Carthaginian deity, is Kronos, whom Zeus defeated.

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