It starts in the 12th century BC during the expansionist wars of the Assyrian Empire. Love is lost, but immortality gained. The main character, Talmido is fighting for the freedom of choice and the liberty of free will. He is given the ability to live forever, never get sick or old and to regenerate his tissue if damaged.He flees the Assyrian military apparatus and fights successive battles for freedom while accumulatingmasses of displaced, desperate, freedom-loving individuals like himself. All of this is happening to abackdrop of alien intelligence and interference. Factions formed to determine whether conscience or chaos coalescence will be the dominant factor in creation's character. Vast galactic battles will play out to the eventual definition what it is to be alive. The eventual causality of the defining actions of antiquity echo to us as we struggle to maintain the freedoms fought over to either win or lose on the battlefield, governmental office or the pulpit.