UNDERWATER
TEMPLE - The Baron
Heinrich Richtohofen, John
Storm and Hal,
the AI onboard the Elizabeth
Swann, agree that Cleopatra is entombed underwater in
her former Palace at Alexandria.
In this
section clues as to the whereabouts of Cleopatra's
tomb are revealed by a further earthquake and micro tsunami, much smaller than
the ones in 365 AD that swallowed up Alexandria, and
Cleopatra's mausoleum - causing them to sink under the Mediterranean
Sea; Mare
Nostrum.
After
the tremor, fisherman Ahmed
Saleh trawls up some relics and records the location on
a USB stick that he hides on his fishing
boat. Safiya
Sabuka tracks down the fisherman, and tortures poor Ahmed to get the location.
She then kills
Ahmed, to make sure no-one else will find out from him where Cleopatra is
underwater.
Safiya
hires a diving boat to survey the sunken city, and working
with Musa Bomani and
Alexis Luther (the Panamanian Running
Man) finds what she thinks from the archaeological evidence,
is the whereabouts of the Pharaoh
queen's tomb. Having located the mausoleum entrance, though
somewhat buried in marine growth. The next stage is to
arrange for recovery of the sarcophagus and the mummy -
without allowing seawater to wash any remains away.
THE BRIEF
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THE
AFTERLIFE - Fortunately, the ancient Egyptians took
preparations for enjoying life after death quite seriously.
Especially, concerning the preservation of a Goddess, like
Cleopatra, where she was held to be Isis
in human form. After the death of Cleopatra, she would have
been embalmed in the traditional way. Once put into her
sarcophagus, Anubis
would be charged with looking after her tomb, as lord of the
underworld and the afterlife.
GRAPHIC
BRIEF - SUGGESTED LAYOUTS/ FORMAT = THREE ISSUES
PART
I - ISSUE 1.
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
PART
II - ISSUE 2.
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
PART
III - ISSUE 3.
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
BOOK CHAPTERS
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. KIDNAP - 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
