Our best intelligence analysts and military strategists have determined that the Persian menace is going to attack soon^TM . In order to defend our great Roman people and country, we shall be taking decisive action, effective immediately, to secure ourselves from the inevitable unprovoked Persian attacks.

Deus vult! Roma Invicta! Etcetera etcetera!

A decree from:

Imperator Caesar Flavius Valerius Leo Thrax Magnus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus.

Additionally signed by:

Nobilissimus Caesar Flavius Zeno Trascalissaeus Rousombladadiotes, Magister Militum Praesentalis et Comes Excubitorum,

and

Patricius Roranicus Pondicus, Praefectus Praetorio Orientis et Magister Militum per Orientem.