CASCADE - Dormir

SYNOPSIS

The PRIMAVERA stays on course toward the star Lemtow 642, thirty-six light years away.

On board, three thousand men and women lie in cryogenic sleep.

Dr. Daniel Ahrens, head of the medical team, enjoys his computer-generated cryostasis life as a young French aristocrat of the late 18th century.

An affair with a married lady catapults Ambroise, Vicomte de Garlancourt, into a duel of swords – a fight to the death.

The overture to an adventurous escape begins.

In London, Ambroise studies medicine – an inner transformation sets in. Enthusiastically, he submits himself to the initiation ritual of a Masonic lodge.

In search of his missing parents, he is swept into the bloody vortex of the French Revolution.

Eventually, his path leads to America, where he serves as a regimental physician in the war against rebellious Native Americans.

After 146 years of flight, the unforeseen occurs:

The spacecraft’s Artificial Intelligence decides to awaken the entire crew.