Musket leaders meet with their benefactors in Yemen and encountered a strange combination of individuals and personalities. Eric and Tiffany arrive a day later after the others have left for the Amran hills. Eric meets the mysterious Persian cleric, Fahad, and encounters Spritz, who had been flown in separately. During the meetings, operation Milk Truck is planned in detail, and a working paradigm is established between the Americans and their international collaborators. This segment deepens the character study of Spritz and Eric in particular, but of all protagonists generally.

The empire began when a sixteen year old boy named Ismail from a militant Sufi brotherhood called the “Safaviya” declared himself the shah of Iran in 1502 and he went on the create the largest Shiite Muslim empire in the world. Even to this day, Iran is still shaped by its past and here is the empire that started it all…