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The Awakening

  Ordo Tribus XI

  Ethan Santiago

  November 2011

  This novel is dedicated to all men, women and children

  who are victims of war and strife

  Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. -Mark Twain

  The Awakening

  Ordo Tribus XI

  Synopsis

  Set in the near future, the world is advancing as new technologies emerges. But the effects from the attack in an early decade of the 21st century, by an elusive group called Ordo Tribus XI (Order of the Three Eleven), lingers.

  Soon, a sinister force arises, quietly permeating into everyone’s lives and into all nooks and crannies of the connected world. As heinous and ambitious as the perpetrators of World War I and II, the insidious force uses corruption and technology to wage their covert war for world domination. There is no hesitation in using any measures against those who stand in their way. It is up to the friends of the victims and a group of hackers to uncover this hidden threat, and defeat it before it is too late.

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  Prologue

  Death and destruction were widespread as World War I drew to its close through the signing of a treaty, a treaty that offers temporary peace while unresolved conflict continue to simmer underneath. Austria-Hungary suffered greater than a 90% casualty rate among the troops that had been mobilized for the war. There were more than 50% casualties from all the troops who fought in the war. This war was started by a nation considered one of the most civilized and highly educated, a country called Germany. The war had wide support of its people. The people revered their Kaiser and were fully behind him. Their emperor's title was adopted from the Roman emperors: they saw themselves as successor of the Roman empire. The plan to start their conquest had been hatched by the Kaiser and his officers as far back as 1890s.

  Meanwhile, somewhere in Germany officers and businessmen gathered. Among the leader of the group is General Erich Hintze. One young officer readied himself to leave in order to deliver a message. Erich turned to him and said, “Send my regards to Friedrich Adolf Julius von Bernhardi.” He then turned back to his audience.

  Now Friedrich, one of the best students of one of our great philosopher Heinrich von Treitschke, is one of Germany's greatest talent. Along with Nietszche, he has clearly enunciated the importance of asserting ourselves. For these philosophers have rightly recognized that we are of a superior race.”

  He paced himself, moving from one side to another, to make sure he talked directly to each person in attendance. “We are the rightful ruler of this world. Only the fittest will survive. For they have taught us that in order to succeed, we need to set aside so-called morality that weakens the mind. Morality, as our great philosophers have said, is used by the weak to cling onto the beliefs that they are superior. All these Jews and Christians who lectured about morality are not going to survive long in this world. It is a pity that we have adopted Christianity from the Romans or that the Romans adopted Christianity in their later years.”

  One of the businessman in attendance wondered aloud, “How come our Kaiser can often be heard appealing to God?”

  Erich smiled and said, “Our God is not the God of Christianity, but the God of our religion of valour. For that is the only religion that matters.”

  The businessman again observed, “We have just signed the treaty, and the people are getting restless. And yet you are in such a good mood.”

  “Of course, this is just a temporary retreat. We shall rise again, stronger and more successful. Our campaign continues. Our Turk allies, which our advisers have helped immensely, are continuing the evacuation of Armenians and moving them to the desert in Syria. With our support, a holy war in the name of their religion have been started. They call it a Jihad.”

  “With any luck we will be rid of these Armenians, their wives and children. Only one race will rise between Turks and Armenians. And I can tell you, our allies the Turks will be victorious. We can take a lesson on how they exterminate the Armenians. Mass evacuation as they marched to the desert and left to die. Churches burned with the Armenians inside according to one cable from our officer. I can tell you, the victor in the next war will be one who won't hesitate to get rid of our enemies, the inferior races.”

  Ominously, one year after his proclamation, Armenian children were herded into the mezzanine of a school to be poisoned with toxic gases. And the same technique would be used years later during the second world war against the Jews.

  Erich then faced the businessmen. “You should read up more on teachings of our great philosopher. And learn more about survival of the fittest. The importance of an army state. Where the state is supreme and the people are its servants. The state should yield absolute power and its citizen submit absolutely. They also talk about the superiority of our Aryan race and how the world will be a better place once we dominate and control it. The importance of waging war mercilessly!” He exclaimed with fist banging on the table. “Only then can you appreciate more about what we are trying to accomplish, instead of just being content to get a hefty profit from our wars.” Erich then pulled on his clothes to straightened them. “I shall take my leave and go on a vacation in Nueva Germania.”

  “Ah, a popular retreat for our Aryan brothers,” said one famous writer who had remained quiet until now.

  “Indeed, established by no other than the sister of our great philosopher Nietszche.” Nueva Germania, or New Germany would later become part of a country called Paraguay, where years later a wanted World War II German war criminal would go to hide.

  Erich then faced everyone
and declared, “Always be ready, for we shall call upon you again soon for an even greater task on behalf of our motherland. Remember Otto Richard Tannenburg’s plan, outlined in 1911. Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway are to remain neutral just temporarily. Then they will eventually become part of our empire once the others have been conquered. The Balkans and Turks have been our gateway as planned. We shall continue on this path. Turks have helped build the Baghdad railway to Persian Gulf which should be continued and then used to conquer India, then China. We will conquer all of Africa and the Americas.” Erich spoke confidently as if the war was still being fought.

  “Although next time, we might have to take Norway so that our naval forces do not get choked up in North Sea again. But our forces are intact, our munitions are aplenty. We can ramp up our war machines.” He said this while looking at the businessman.

  Erich paused for a second in deep thought, and then went on. “You know what those Christians talk about in their Revelations. A beast whose name is 666. That to understand it is like understanding a foreign language.” He turned toward the board and pick up a piece of chalk. “I'll tell you what, why don't we use the new tabulating machine. It uses binary numbers. Which is just ON or OFF, 1 or null. Since it is binary, you have a base of 2 per binary digit instead of base of 10 for decimal numbers. To get the equivalent of a single decimal digit of 6, you would need at least 3 binary digits. The least significant bit, which is the rightmost binary digit is 2 to the power of 0, the middle binary digit is 2 to the power of 1, the most significant binary digit to the left is 2 to the power of 2. So most significant to least significant binary digits equivalent in decimal are 4, 2 and 1. Binary digits that are turned ON are counted and added together. So to get 6, you turn ON the two digits on the left. That is 4+2 with the last ignored. One, One and Null. So 666 is One, One, Null, One, One, Null, One, One, Null from a 3 binary digit each. Erich wrote down 666 then the 1 for ON and dash in place of the OFF or null digit. Below it he wrote down 3 for each set of 3 binary digit number.

  6 6 6

  11-11-11-

  3 3 3

  The professor in attendance laugh and said, “Since when have you been a mathematician?”

  “I've taken interest in the new tabulating machine to see how we can use it for encrypting our telegrams or decrypting those from our enemy. I heard of one inventor Arthur Scherbius who is currently working on a cryptography machine that he is referring to as the Enigma.”

  One officer eyeing what Erich had written on the board said, “I see a pattern of three eleven.”

  Erich smiled and said, “Yeah starting from the most significant bit, an 11 for each 3 bit.”

  Erich paused and said, “That's it. Let three eleven be our call sign.”