Fall of an Empire, Rise of Another

Fall of an Empire, Rise of Another was a virtual representation of one of Aya's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description
Aya set sail for Rome to assassinate Lucius Septimius and Julius Caesar.

Dialogue
As Aya looked at Bayek's Medjay badge aboard her ship, she was approached by Damastes. Damastes took the badge, but Aya drew a knife and knocked it out of his hand, and then held the knife to Damastes' throat. Damastes ran off. Aya looked at the badge one last time before throwing it in the sea. She then took the helm with Phoxidas and sailed forth with a group of ships. Flares were shot, and a fleet of Roman ships approached. The Roman ships were sunk. Aya sank the fireships, but a pair of octaremes approached. Aya sank the remaining fireships. Yet more Roman ships approached. With the help of the newly-arrived allied ships, Aya was able to sink the octaremes. Two years later, Aya met with Brutus and Cassius in the Theatre of Pompey. They spotted Caesar at the other end of the theatre with Septimius at his side. Caesar nodded and left. As Brutus and Cassius left, Septimius sent his two guards against Aya, who swiftly killed them. She then faced off against Septimius in a duel. Aya defeated Septimius. In the latter's final moments, she looked at apparitions of members of the Order of the Ancients. Septimius laughed with the members of the Order, but Aya drew a knife to his gut. Aya slit Septimius' throat and drenched a feather with his blood. Aya made her way to the senators and Caesar. Aya reached the Curia and put on a senator's robe fashioned into a hooded cape. Aya snuck up behind Caesar and stabbed him in the back with her Hidden Blade, signalling the other senators to attack him and stab him to death. As Brutus approached with a knife, Caesar looked with shock. Brutus stabbed Caesar in the abdomen, delivering a killing blow. Aya spoke with the dying Caesar in his final moments, the later appearing in military dress. Caesar lifted a. Caesar planted the standard. Caesar appeared in his senator's dress, lying on the floor again. As Caesar succumbed to his wounds, Aya placed his sword on his chest.
 * Damastes: Is that for Phoxidas? A gift?
 * Aya: No, it's a relic. I don't want to talk about it, Damastes.
 * Damastes: Isn't that Bayek's? Let me have it, I'll give it to Phoxidas myself. He loves these things.
 * Aya: I'll kill you. How about that? I'm in no mood for compromise today.
 * Phoxidas: We passed Neapolis in the crack of morning. With strong winds, you'll be standing in Rome's Forum in two days' time. It's over between you and Bayek, eh? I can feel... no decision is easy. But you are a chosen one. And now you're free. Like me.
 * Aya: So begins a new day.
 * Phoxidas: Hm. A Roman fleet up ahead. Do you see?
 * Aya: Don't drop your guard entirely. We should assume they're expecting us.
 * Phoxidas: You sound thrilled about it.
 * Aya: Eager, old man. Eager to be done with the scum. And move on to the next pile of scum.
 * Phoxidas: Infinite scum. Such is the world we live in.
 * Phoxidas: We have been spotted!
 * Aya: Those flares will summon their navy!
 * Phoxidas: Prepare yourselves!
 * Aya: Here they come! Forward, men! Litter the sea with their shattered hulls!
 * Phoxidas: Strike oars! Al-la-la-la-la! Ah, the songs they will sing about us when this day is out!
 * Aya: If that happens, Phoxidas, I will wear seaweed like a siren and sing them myself.
 * Phoxidas: I'll hold you to that!
 * Aya: Believe me, you would be sorry. Now let's end this!
 * Phoxidas: Ha ha! Another down! There is only one more left for the abyss!
 * Phoxidas: They set fireships upon us!
 * Aya: Gods. Out fleet is too tightly formed! They'll hit us!
 * Phoxidas: We are overwhelmed! These hellships are too many!
 * Aya: We must sink them before they reach us! They'll doom us if they strike us! Take them down!
 * Phoxidas: More fireships close! By the gods, they're everywhere! Fireships left!
 * Phoxidas:  help us, it's an armada!
 * Aya: Do we have the firepower to deal with this?
 * Phoxidas: I can't see how! With out fleet dispersed and our allies gone, we're undone!
 * Aya: Man up, you old salt-lick! Save your bloody ship!
 * Phoxidas: Blast! Jove's pissing on our heads from the top of !
 * Aya: No, no! It's Brutus and Cassius! Look!
 * Phoxidas: And our catapults with them! Put them to use! Brace! Men! Don't fear this beast. She's a great and girthy whale, but we'll dance around her bulk like minnows in a pond!
 * Aya: You weren't a poet in your youth, were you, Phoxidas?
 * Phoxidas: Oho! I should have been, I think! A philosopher, too. Ah, what we should have been! A million things, fair Aya!
 * Aya: You must write your memoirs one day!
 * Phoxidas: I may just do! And if you'll promise to sneak one copy into the Library, our legend will live on! Surely this chapter will be the most widely read of all!
 * Aya: Let it rain! Down, you demons! Into the sea!
 * Phoxidas: Heyo, slackers! Form up with the rest! Today we sail together.
 * Aya: What port are you taking us to?
 * Phoxidas: There is a town called I'd like to try. Lots of merchants sail in and out of there. Should be safe for you. From there it's a half day's ride to Rome.
 * Aya: It is only a matter of days before Caesar will officially become a tyrant.
 * Cassius: There he is.
 * Septimius: The people love you, Caesar. You're a god.
 * Caesar: The will not bow so easily.
 * Septimius: That parliament of clucking hens? Let me be your wolf.
 * Aya: Go. Do nothing until I give the signal.
 * Aya: So Caesar is the King of the Order now?
 * Septimius: Caesar is the Father of Understanding.
 * Aya: You and Caesar will die.
 * Septimius: You are meddling with the affairs of the Order. The Order is greater than Rome. Go back to Egypt, with the rest of the liars and slaves.
 * Aya: Ha, you make me understand why murder is just.
 * Septimius: I command armies! I control greatness!
 * Aya: I will erase your Order from the annals.
 * Septimius: Kneel to Caesar, kneel to Rome. It feels good to side with winners. We are the writers of history!
 * Aya: Caesar will follow you to oblivion.
 * Septimius: Your son pissed himself when he saw the knife.
 * Aya: I will feed your heart to vultures. You have no honor. You stole everything from me!
 * Septimius: I am a Gabiniani! I thought you would scurry away, little one. You should have taken your chance to drop off the map.
 * Aya: Flavius isn't here to save you this time, Septimius. No Roman deals will be made.
 * Septimius: Damn you, lupa (she-wolf)!
 * Aya: My son's heart. For your life.
 * Septimius: Was revenge everything you hoped? You and the Medjay shall drench the sheets with your sweat tonight.
 * Aya: The Staff...
 * Septimius: With the Order. I served them and your beloved Egypt. And I'll be rewarded in the afterlife. An eternity of drinking and whoring with my brothers.
 * Aya: The only thing that waits for you is oblivion. For your name, your Order and the rotting corpses of your Gabiniani!
 * Aya: Apep devour your fetid heart.
 * Aya: Caesar must be in the, with the rest of the Senate.
 * Caesar: I ask only this... that you join with me in building a new Rome.
 * Cassius: A Rome with you as king?
 * Senator 1: Let Caesar speak!
 * Brutus: We want a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few!
 * Caesar: You are just as privileged as I?
 * Brutus: I am not dictator for life!
 * Caesar: An honor bestowed upon me by the people of Rome. Would you have me refuse such a gift?
 * Senator 2: We would have you think of Rome before yourself.
 * Caesar: I will unite the Republic. Senatus Populusque Romanus, for the Senate and the people of Rome.
 * Senator 3: Republic? You speak of republic while coveting a crown?
 * Caesar: Marcus Antonius offered me the crown, at the festival. I refused it.
 * Senator 4: And what a pretty play it was.
 * Cassius: You don't need a crown, they have made you a god!
 * Caesar: Mark me, Gaius Cassius Longinus, support me in my dreams for Rome, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you.
 * Cassius: Senators, the is over.
 * Caesar: The drums of dissent have reached a fever pitch.
 * Brutus: Rome will not be a again.
 * Caesar: It seems Brutus would start a revolution. But against what, my friend? We desire the same things.
 * Brutus: How can you say that when you have raised yourself so far above the people?
 * Caesar: I speak for the people!
 * Cassius: You have seized the rights of the citizenry!''
 * Caesar: No! The people, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, offered up all of their rights to their leader and did it gladly so.
 * Cassius: Who made you leader of Rome?
 * Caesar: The eternal city herself!
 * Senator 3: Caesar will not be reasoned with!
 * Caesar: Senators, we still have a voice in this forum! I will hear your complaints!
 * Senator 3: Caesar deigns to listen, Romans rejoice!
 * Caesar: You too, my child?
 * Brutus: The tyrant is dead! You are free now!
 * Caesar: Do I know you? You, who strikes from the shadows?
 * Aya: The same fate will come to all despots.
 * Caesar: In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are. And I was a god!
 * Aya: There is a new creed now.
 * Caesar: Rome is eternal!
 * Caesar: She will never fall to you or your kind.
 * Aya: Freedom is not given, Caesar. It is taken.
 * Aya: Requiescat in pace (rest in peace), Caesar.

Outcome
Aya killed Septimius and Caesar, bringing a temporary end to the machinations of the Order of the Ancients.

Reference

 * Assassin's Creed: Origins