Digital Venus

And so rosy-fingered dawn rose and spread her laserbeams across the battlefield. Thousands of Trojans and Achaeans lay slaughtered and destroyed, their hard drives cleanly wiped and wires and circuitry trailing carnage everywhere. Nothing moved but for a single figure - that of the goddess, emerging from the binary foam and clutching her vocoder with which she issued a single statement. "Aeneas, you shall found a great city but first you need to make a pact with Mephistopheles in an entirely different era and aesthetic of classic literature. You must consult the sibylline robocop who will present you with the golden bough that allows you access to the great underground techno scene. Go forth and synthesize!" Aeneas found two brothers - Romulus Moog and Remus Kurzweil and persuaded them to join his blatantly revivalist Trojan rave band. They went on tour with the prodigy and got tied up in the decline of the Roman empire at Creamfields, where they met Johann Wolfgang von Lustmord, an Austrio-Hungarian pervert who could program arpeggiators only using his obscene teutonic gazes and gestures. As the Roman republic declined, a fellow called Faust began his DJ set when Mephisto appeared to claim what was his - his record collection which he had signed away to him in exchange for the sum of human knowledge. "God No" screamed Faust as his first edition mint Kraftwerk presses disappeared into the fiery abyss. "God?" said Mephisto. "You must be one of those new fangled christians that Nero is so up in arms about!". At this very second Johann and the nearby Syyren, who was Mephisto's girlfriend at this time were offered a record deal by Saint Peter for the further glory of the Holy Roman Empire. Syyren is now single and enjoying every minute of it, as Augustus can testify.