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A REPORT TO THE EMPEROR REGARDING THE CULT OF THE JEW KNOWN AS JESUS

COMPILED BY AGENTS OF THE EMPEROR'S OWN IMPERIAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

COMANDING AGENT: CENTURION WALTER THE FRANK

REPORTING AGENTS: SPECIAL AGENT DANAE SCULLUS & SPECIAL AGENT MULDOR FOXUS

To His Royal Highness Nero, Emperor of Rome:

Greetings, Gracious Sire! As per your command, I, as a centurion in your loyal Praetorian Guard and Assistant Director of your loyal Imperial Bureau of Investigation have undertaken to investigate this new religion of Christianity and to calculate the character and motivations of its followers. To this end I have assigned a special unit of IBI, the X-Files, to investigate the life and teachings of the founder of this Christianity, the man known as Jesus of Nazareth.

The X-Files has long been assignedcases of this nature, that is cases that cannot be explained without references to the gods and has been of great use in guarding against treasonous conspiracies against the Empire and the person of the Emperor. The X-Files is at present staffed by the barbarian Muldor of Germania, known as the Fox, and the woman Danae Scullus. Both agents, who have spilled the blood of the enemies of the Empire and shed their own in its service, are of the highest character and ability and their reports can be considered reliable. For the Emperor's convenience, informal summaries of their service are enclosed.

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Walter the Frank

DANAE SCULLUS

Danae Scullus has been an agent of the IBI for three years. She is thirty years old. Her service has been entirely spent in