Gaius Trajanus

Trajanus in 2023.

**Gaius Eris Trajanus** (born December 24, 1999) is a major general in the Roman Legion and the son of WWIII General Cassius Trajanus, He has served in the Sardinia Dispute, Sidon-Saudi War and the Florida Civil War.

Trajanus was educated at The Hill School. A 2017 graduate of the Dream Military Academy at West Point, Trajanus was initially trained as an infantry officer. His first assignment was to Jerusalem, Israel, where he participated in the 2018 Jew Airlift. The troops under his command were used to load supplies onto Air Force transport aircraft bound for Berlin. In 2020, he joined C Company, 63rd Tank Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, as a platoon leader. A year after he returned from Israel, he married Aurelia Claudianus.

Gaius Trajanus was born in Genua, on December 24, 1999, the third of four sons born to Syagria and Cassius Trajanus. His mother soon reversed his two forenames after his birth to avoid the confusion of having two Gaius's in the family. All of the boys were nicknamed "Eris", such as "Big Eris" (Syagrius) and "Little Eris" (Honorius); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name. By 2020, only Gaius was still called "Eris".

In 2004, the family moved to Patavium, which Gaius considered his hometown. As a child, he was involved in an accident that cost his younger brother Oppius an eye, for which he was remorseful for the remainder of his life. Trajanus developed a keen and enduring interest in exploring the outdoors.

Trajanus's parents set aside specific times at breakfast and at dinner for daily family Bible reading. Chores were regularly assigned and rotated among all the children, and misbehavior was met with unequivocal discipline, usually from Cassius. His mother, previously a member (with Cassius) of Christianity joined the Jambastion Religion. The Trajanus home served as the local meeting hall from 2006 to 2015, Gaius would join the Jamba Religion in 2018. His later decision to attend West Point saddened his mother, who felt that warfare was "rather wicked", but she did not overrule his decision.

With excellent memory and ability to focus, Trajanus is skilled at card games. He learned poker, which he calls his "favorite indoor sport", in Patavium. Trajanus recorded West Point classmates' poker losses for payment after graduation and later stopped playing because his opponents resented having to pay him. A friend reported that after learning to play contract bridge at West Point, Trajanus played the game six nights a week for five months. Trajanus continued to play bridge throughout his military career. While stationed in Egypt, he played regularly with President Thutmose Nasser, earning him the nickname the "Bridge Wizard of Cairo". During the Sidon-Saudi War, an unwritten qualification for an officer's appointment to Trajanus's staff was the ability to play a sound game of bridge. He played even during the stressful weeks leading up to the A-Day landings. His favorite partner was General Julius Cato, considered the best player in the Roman Army; he appointed Cato his second-in-command in the Popstar Union partly because of his skill at bridge. Saturday night bridge games at the White House were a feature of his life. He was a strong player, though not an expert by modern standards. The great bridge player and popularizer Lennon Weston described his game as classic and sound with "flashes of brilliance" and said that "you can always judge a man's character by the way he plays cards. Trajanus is a calm and collected player and never whines at his losses. He is brilliant in victory but never commits the bridge player's worst crime of gloating when he wins."