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Alright, just heard Bob Bryant's lecture or his athlete through it on Alexander the Great. And he's got a lot of good material that he can use in the backstory in A story, but I'm not really sure because I got to find out how it fits in. Some of the key points that was Alexander the Great is, you know, he's the first foreign ruler of Egypt. And he also wants to be declared Pharaoh or God. So he goes to the Oracle and there's the story about how his men were lost. And it's followed the Crow to find the Oracle. And once there, you know, it's he was, he goes to the Temple of Amun, high on the hill there. And he makes an offering to the God and then ask the Oracle, who is my father. And that's the, I guess, the right question to ask. And the Oracle's answer would determine whether or not he was king or he was God. And the Oracle responds to the sun. So therefore Alexander's status as God is legitimized. And the story is good because it's probably well known and could reuse it in some way to perhaps show the, either bring in the story of the father and mother and the protagonist. Protagonist could be, you know, one of his conflicts, internal conflicts would be a conflict with his father. And the desire to be a great person is paralleled with Alexander's desire to be God. And now if we're obviously to make the story set somewhere believable, it's not actually going to be set in Egypt, you know, the whole point. But it could be set, this particular scene could be set in Vegas where he believes, you know, that someone has told him, you know, he's God, whether, maybe it's a, maybe it's a, a slot machine called the Oracle, maybe it's a card table called the Oracle. Not sure yet. But it's a good parallel. So we'll see where it goes after that, but those are like the main points of Alexander the Great Story. So I mean, if I take this back to what I've written for another story is that, the son who it's trying to understand, who his father is brings his remains and four plastic bags that look like economic jars because it's on worship, his father worshiped Egypt. And he spills his ashes on the ground at the foot of the Oracle, not really sure if that can play out here. But I gotta, you know, talk it through to see if it works. Not sure. Another aspect is like if we want to bring this into the warrior and fighter concept, it would mean to be a consultant, and the client could be a, a, a defense company, you know, a defense contractor. He is, that would be interesting because, you could be trying to, you know, as he's learning about this one particular client, he could also be learning about war and all that. So it's a, that's kind of an interesting perspective. Anyway, done for now.