Ayreon - The Universal Migrator

2000

Transmission
InsideOut Music (2004)
Hellion (Brazil)
Nems (Argentina)

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Part 1: The Dream Sequencer

Vocalists Arjen Lucassen Damian Wilson Edward Reekers Floor Jansen Jacqueline Govaert Johan Edlund Lana Lane Mark McCrite Mouse Neal Morse Instrumentalists Arjen Lucassen Clive Nolan Rob Snijders Artwork Jef Bertels (sleeve) Jacques Marcoux (booklet)

1.     The Dream Sequencer 2.     My House on Mars 3.     2084 4.     One Small Step 5.     The Shooting Company of Captain Frans B Cocq 6.     Dragon on the Sea 7.     Temple of the Cat 8.     Carried by the Wind 9.     And the Druids Turned to Stone 10.   The First Man on Earth     11.   The Dream Sequencer Reprise

Part 2: Flight of the Migrator

Vocalists Andi Deris Bruce Dickinson Damian Wilson Fabio Lione Ian Parry Lana Lane Ralf Scheepers Robert Soeterboek Russell Allen Timo Kotipelto Instrumentalists Arjen Lucassen Clive Nolan Ed Warby Gary Wehrkamp Keiko Kumagai Michael Romeo Oscar Holleman Rene Merkelbach Artwork Jacques Marcoux

1.     Chaos 2.     Dawn of a Million Souls 3.     Journey on the Waves of Time 4.     To the Quasar                         (a) The Taurus Pulsar                     (b) Quasar 3C273 5.     Into the Black Hole                         (a) The Eye of the Universe                     (b) Halo of Darkness                     (c) The Final Door 6.     Through the Wormhole 7.     Out of the White Hole                         (a) M31                     (b) Planet y                     (c) The Search Continues 8.     To the Solar System                         (a) Planet of Blue                     (b) System Alert  9.     The New Migrator                         (a) Metamorphosis                     (b) Sleeper Awake

Story

The Dream Sequencer

On 'Universal Migrator part I: The Dream Sequencer' Arjen picks up the story of The Final Experiment and the year 2084. Over a hundred years have passed since the last world war destroyed all life on earth, which the main character Ayreon already predicted in the 6th century (see the first Ayreon CD 'The Final Experiment').

During the battles a number of colonists resided on Mars, witnessing the destruction on earth from afar. For years they managed to keep themselves alive with the supplies they brought with them from earth. These supplies ran out and almost all colonists have died. The main character in the story is the last surviving human being, a child of the first colonists. He has never been on earth.

To make the boredom on Mars somewhat bearable, clever technicians designed the Dream Sequencer, a machine that allows Colonists to travel back to their own youth by means of hypnoses, but also to their lives before; their pre- incarnations so to speak.

It is in this machine that the Colonist relives his youth on Mars, his death as a woman on earth during the war of 2084, the first moonlanding of 1969, and his life as the standard bearer in the famous 17th century painting of Rembrandt: The Nightwatch. He stood on the shores of England as Queen Elisabeth I, watching the English fleet sail out to stop the Spanish Armada, and as a Mayan girl he witnessed sacred ceremonies in Tikal. We find out that the Colonist once was the minstrel Ayreon and that, in another even earlier incarnation, he was present during the construction of Stonehenge. His soul's first incarnation was the first human being on earth.

Flight of the Migrator

The Universal Migrator Part II continues the story of the last man alive on Mars as he decides to venture further back in time. He wants to go all the way back to the time right before the universe was created, a time when there was nothing but chaos. The Colonist witnesses the big bang and the creation of the first soul: The Universal Migrator. This soul divides in various new souls that each go in search of planets they can inhabit. This is how they bring life to various planets and start different civilizations.

In the Dream Sequencer program the Colonist follows the soul that is headed for earth. On his long journey through space, he passes astronomical manifestations such as quasars, pulsars, supernovas, black holes, and wormholes. He finally enters the solar system, but the DS program goes on overload. The Colonist should never have ventured that far back in time. The Dream Sequencer is desperately trying to wake the Colonist from his deep state of hypnoses, but it is too late; the Colonist dies in the machine. Then the Migrator speaks to him without words: "Eternity lies before you. You are the new Migrator!"

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