Starting with a bang

I have noticed that as the world's collective attention span grows shorter, some movies have resorted to starting out with an explosion or chase scene then rolling back in time leading up to that event.

For example, in the first Iron Man, Tony Stark is shown blowing things up then they go back in time to show you how he ended up here.

So I made up my mind to start out both The Ark Lords and Rome's Evolution with an explosion.

In The Ark Lords, it was pretty lame. It was just a grease fire. In Rome's Evolution, it is actually a bomb and it isn't just for dramatic effect. It is actually at the core of the plot. So thank you would-be assassins for letting me start the new book with a bang!