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A story as old as time, Cleopatra is returned to life, after her tragic departure.

Pendant près de quatre siècles après la mort de la dernière reine d'Égypte, Alexandrie et Thonis-Héracléion pratiquèrent le commerce maritime, tombant dans de nouveaux bas-fonds de corruption et d'immoralité, jusqu'à environ 365 après J.-C., lorsque les dieux furent suffisamment en colère pour invoquer un cocktail épouvantable de vents violents, de plaques mobiles et de vagues géantes pour balayer la ville fautive et ses satellites sous la mer - envoyant tous ceux qui s'y trouvaient dans une tombe aquatique.

Alexandrie fut frappée par des ondes de choc qui enfoncèrent des bâtiments, ébranlèrent leurs fondations, suivies de vagues de quinze mètres de haut qui s'écrasèrent sur les décombres avec une grande force, submergeant la ville, l'entraînant dans les profondeurs d'une Méditerranée orageuse, suivies de vents violents qui scellèrent le sort de ceux qui s'y trouvaient. Thonis-Héracléion subit le même sort. Les dieux ne récompensèrent pas la profanation, la mauvaise conduite ou la mauvaise gestion contre nature à une telle échelle, menaçant la sainteté du dernier lieu de repos de Cléopâtre.

Ainsi se termina la gouvernance, qui avait ruiné les décisions de nombreux royaumes injustes. Les tempêtes s'apaisant, les vagues retrouvant leur clarté d'un vert-bleu vif, clapotant sur les rivages sablonneux - et le soleil brillant - comme si rien ne s'était passé. À part le nettoyage rapide, effaçant la ville délabrée de la vue et de la mémoire.

La tombe de Cléopâtre fut démontée dans les plus brefs délais, pour être enterrée pendant au moins seize cents ans de plus, jusqu'à ce que de nouveaux mouvements de la croûte terrestre dus au réchauffement anthropique de la planète, signalent des indices quant à l'emplacement de son sarcophage, la momie à l'intérieur étroitement enveloppée pour contenir des conserves, des huiles, des épices et des herbes. Heureusement, elle était assez bien conservée, mais elle était nouvellement menacée par des mers acides de plus en plus puissantes, empiétant sur l'inertie paisible - et ayant besoin de nouvelles protections contre l'acidité.

Il était temps d'effectuer un sauvetage. Les dieux souriraient une fois de plus à la dernière reine pharaon, la récompensant pour ses souffrances et son courage de son vivant, en tant que déesse vénérée à part entière. Qu’elle puisse se joindre à la lutte pour sauver la planète de la surexploitation et aider à restaurer un ordre plus naturel.

For nearly four hundreds years after the death of the last Queen of Egypt, Alexandria and Thonis-Heracleion plied a sea trade, tumbling to new lows of corruption and immorality, until around 365 AD, when the Gods were angered sufficiently to summon a dreadful cocktail of high winds, shifting plates and giant waves to wash the offending city and it's satellites under the sea - sending all those within to a watery grave.

Alexandria was hit by shock waves that stuck down buildings, shaken to their foundations, followed by waves fifteen meters in height that dashed onto the rubble with great force, submerging the city, dragging it down into the depths of a stormy Mediterranean, followed by high winds that sealed the fate of those within. Thonis-Heracleion suffered the same fate. The Gods did not reward desecration, misbehaving or unnatural mismanagement on such a scale, threatening the sanctity of Cleopatra's last resting place.

So ended the governing, as had wrecked the rulings of many unjust kingdoms. With the storms subsiding, the waves returning to the former bright green-blue clarity, lapping the sandy shores - and the sun shining forth - as though nothing had taken place. Save for the rapid cleansing, washing the blighted city from sight and memory.

Cleopatra's tomb was taken down in the striking, to be buried for at least sixteen hundred years more, until fresh movement of the earth's crust from anthropogenic warming of the planet, signaled clues as to the whereabouts of her sarcophagus, the mummy inside tightly wrapped to contain preserving, oils, spices and herbs. Fortunately, well enough conserved, but newly in danger from increasingly potent acidic seas, encroaching peaceful inertness - and in need of further acidity protections.

It was time to effect a rescue. The Gods would once more smile on the last Pharaoh queen, rewarding her for her suffering and bravery when alive, as a revered Goddess in her own right. That she might join in the struggle to save the planet from over exploitation, and help restore a more natural order.

PROLOGUE    INNER CIRCLE OF SIX - Nazi funded medical human research laboratories Joseph Mengele's Fourth Reich escape to Brazil reserve plan.

CHAPTER 1.   THE POISON ASP - The Queen of the Nile takes her own life with an Egyptian cobra in a suicide pact with Mark Antony

CHAPTER 2.   WRATH OF THE GODS - The destruction of Thonis and Alexandria in 365 AD, a tsunami sinks the ancient city port

CHAPTER 3.   NEW WORLD ORDER - A plan by Neuwelt Rittertum knights to regenerate Aryan supremacy without a war

CHAPTER 4.   CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a Neuwelt Rittertum knights

CHAPTER 5.   INCUBUS - Roberta Ferrara secures the expertise of Franco Francisco for knights of the New World Order: Neuwelt Rittertum

CHAPTER 6.   SPLICE - Klaus and Eva von Kolreuter find a way to live forever using cloning technology; Genonimo Investments, Geneva

CHAPTER 7.   TREMORS - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries. Until a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria

CHAPTER 8.   PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - Alexis Luther is clocked on a Panamanian beach, as the world's fastest human runner

CHAPTER 9.   THE AMAZON - John and Dan wend their way up the river to Manaus, to meet Charley Temple and Jack Mason, CIA

CHAPTER 10. TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures.

CHAPTER 11. SCOTLAND YARD - Corrupt police Chief Constable Harold Holland plans to cover up theft of DNA database with MP Nick Johnson

CHAPTER 12. OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace

CHAPTER 13. KIDNAPPED - Charley Temple is captured by Neuwelt Rittertum guards while breaking into their laboratory near Manaus

CHAPTER 14. UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice

CHAPTER 15. REINCARNATION - Neuwelt Rittertum clone Cleopatra in Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence and implanted memories

CHAPTER 16. FULL STEAM AHEAD - Storm speeds to Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered

CHAPTER 17. RITUAL SACRIFICE - The Baron prepares a drugged Cleopatra for ceremonial unification with her royal bloodline

CHAPTER 18. SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds secret Neuwelt hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators

CHAPTER 19. THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John falls under the magic spell of the reincarnated Nile Queen

CHAPTER 20. MILITARY INTERVENTION - The military detain Cleopatra to appease stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught

CHAPTER 21. DÉJÀ VU - History repeats itself, military lock up technology as gross violation of human rights, John left disillusioned:  FINALE FOR NOW

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GRAPHIC BRIEF - SUGGESTED LAYOUTS/ FORMAT

CHAPTER 1.   THE POISON ASP - Overwhelmed by grief, Cleopatra poisons herself with a cobra bite in her mausoleum

CHAPTER 2.   WRATH OF THE GODS - The destruction of Thonis and Alexandria

CHAPTER 3.   NEW WORLD ORDER - A Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy

CHAPTER 4.   CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a religious sect

CHAPTER 5.   INCUBUS - Franco Francisco accepts offer of employment from Roberta Ferrara

CHAPTER 6.   SPLICE - Klaus von Kolreuter perfects a method of gene manipulation

CHAPTER 7.   TREMORS - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries, until shift in the tectonic plates trigger tremor off the coast of Alexandria

CHAPTER 8.   PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - Marjorie Boyle videos exceptionally fast athlete, Sam Hollis investigates

CHAPTER 9.   AMAZON QUEEN - Elizabeth Swann navigating river and docking at Manaus

CHAPTER 10. TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures

CHAPTER 11. SCOTLAND YARD - London's secure DNA database is stolen

CHAPTER 12. OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace

CHAPTER 13. KIDNAPPED - Charley is taken prisoner, John, Dan and CIA rescue her

CHAPTER 14. UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice

CHAPTER 15. REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence, implanted memories

CHAPTER 16. FULL STEAM AHEAD - To Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered

CHAPTER 17. RITUAL SACRIFICE - The Baron prepares a drugged Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation

CHAPTER 18. SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators

CHAPTER 19. THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant

CHAPTER 20. MILITARY INTERVENTION - Military detain Cleopatra for stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught

CHAPTER 21. DÉJÀ VU - History repeats itself, military lock up technology as gross violation of human rights, John left disillusioned

WRATH OF THE GODS - ALEXANDRIA IS SUBSUMED BY A TSUNAMI IN 365 AD, SINKING THE NILE QUEEN'S MAUSOLEUM - THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN STORM: CLEOPATRA REBORN: REBIRTH FROM THE AFTERLIFE

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