B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

Evelyn Smythe told her student Sally about the time she and the Doctor met some pirates. [895]

  c 2000 (October) - The Spectre of Lanyon Moor [896]

  Lethbridge-Stewart, occasionally performing surveillance work for UNIT, looked into the latest of a string of mysterious deaths in the Lanyon Moor area. An archaeological expedition there had woken up the Tregannon scout Sancreda after eighteen thousand years of semi-dormancy, and Sancreda sought to use his vast mental abilities to exact revenge on his brother Screfan for abandoning him. The sixth Doctor and Evelyn aided the Brigadier as Sancreda summoned his survey ship from space, but Sancreda discovered that he had inadvertently killed his brother during their initial survey on Earth. Sancreda tried to destroy Earth, but the Brigadier swapped out a crucial component from Sancreda’s psionic cannon. The resultant energy backlash destroyed Sancreda and his survey ship.

  c 2000 - Excelis Rising [897]

  On the highly-industrialised planet Artaris, border disputes sprang up between the city-states of Gatracht and Calann. The public came to regard “the warlord Grayvorn and his lost treasure” as the stuff of myth, although officials at the Imperial Archives’ Black Museum privately acknowledged the tales as true.

  The Relic had become the property of the Excelis Museum, and an Imperial Edict forbade the head curator from turning the object over to anyone beyond the Empress, her Regent or the Etheric Minister. Possibly due to the Relic’s presence in the city, mediums were able to commune with the dead.

  At the Museum, the sixth Doctor found the former warlord Grayvorn trying to re-acquire the Relic. An altercation between them resulted in a discharge of the Relic’s energies, which dissipated Grayvorn’s physical form. His consciousness became embedded in the Museum’s stone walls, and he waited for someone to die in the museum so he could inhabit their body.

  Captain Jack discovered that in addition to disgorging objects, the Rift sometimes relocated people in Cardiff to alien locales. Some later returned through the Rift, mentally unstable or otherwise altered owing to their experiences. On 27th October, 2000, Jack purchased Flat Holm, a property on an island in the Bristol Channel, to serve as a shelter for such persons. [898]

  2000 (4th November) - Touched by an Angel [899]

  The Weeping Angels nearly disrupted the wedding of Mark Whitaker and Rebecca Coles, but the eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory saw that she got to the church on time. The Doctor wiped Rebecca’s memory of their having used the TARDIS four times to achieve this.

  In early November 2000, a man named Tom jumped aboard a bus in London and found he’d entered Iris Wildthyme’s TARDIS. He became her travelling companion. [900] Martha Jones visited the Millennium Dome with her family and secretly enjoyed it. [901] On Christmas Day 2000, a serious earthquake called the Little Big One hit San Francisco. [902]

  2001

  Lavinia Smith, Sarah Jane’s aunt, died in 2001. Lavinia’s ward, Brendan, was in San Francisco at the time. Sarah Jane inherited Lavinia’s house and the royalties on her patents. [903]

  Amelia Pond’s best friend Mels got into trouble in history classes because she kept mentioning the Doctor. [904] In 2001, Samuel Lloyd’s parents died in a car accident. He was sent to the St. Anthony’s Children’s Home, and became friends with Rani Chandra. [905]

  Following his defeat of Jane Blythe, the eleventh Doctor was deposited on Earth more than five years prior to his starting point. He spent the intervening time waiting to reunite with Amy and Rory in 2007, and foiled a few plots to destroy mankind along the way. [906]

  In 2001, the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics estimated that a comet that had visited Earth five hundred years ago would return, and that Earth would pass through its tail - the first such event since Halley’s Comet in 1910. Sir Donald Wakefield, a billionaire and the leader of the White Chapter, viewed the comet as a sign of salvation. He poured his fortune into building a spacecraft, the Dauntless, to make a private journey into space. [907]

  The Grid, a means of pooling the unused processing power of Internet computers to create unlimited memory space, came online in 2001. Paul Kairos, a classmate of Melanie Bush, learned to manipulate photons in a way that rendered the transistor and micro-monolithic circuit obsolete. Anjelique Whitefriar stole Kairos’ design and patented it as the Whitefriar Lattice. [908]

  @ 2001 (February) - Escape Velocity [909]

  Compassion dropped Fitz in London on 6th February, 2001 - two days ahead of his scheduled rendezvous with the amnesiac eighth Doctor. By now, the Doctor owned the St. Louis Bar and Restaurant in London to facilitate his meeting with Fitz. After their rendezvous, the Doctor gave the bar to its manager, Sheff.

  Competition between the Kulan factions increased, as the first group to report to the Kulan leadership would be likely to persuade them to either invade or spare Earth.

  Anji Kapoor, a 28-year-old futures analyst, took a break in Brussels with her boyfriend Dave and became embroiled in the Kulan conflict. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji allied with the benevolent Kulan faction and blew up Yves-Dudoin’s Star Dart. A pro-invasion Kulan member named Fray’kon killed Dave.

  A Kulan warfleet arrived in Earth orbit, but the TARDIS completed its century of healing and became functional again. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji travelled to the flagship and tricked the Kulan ships into annihilating one another. Arthur Tyler III and Fray’kon died in the fighting. The TARDIS had departed Earth with Anji aboard, but the Doctor promised to try and return her home...

  After many adventures, the Doctor returned Anji home three weeks after she left, and she resumed her life. She would not see him again for eighteen months. [910]

  2001 - The Shadow in the Glass [911]

  Historical journalist Claire Aldwych discovered evidence of the Vvormak cruiser located in Turelhampton, England, which prompted the sixth Doctor and the Brigadier to investigate. Suspecting Nazi involvement, the Brigadier stole pieces of Hitler and Eva Braun’s remains from the State Special Trophy Archive in Moscow for comparison.

  The Doctor and his allies discovered the existence of a Nazi organisation at an Antarctic base, led by the son of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. The Doctor retrieved the Scrying Glass from the base, but it depicted the Doctor taking Hitler’s son back in time to 1945. To fulfill the Glass’ visions, the Doctor, the Brigadier, Claire and Hitler’s son travelled back to that year.

  After their return, the Doctor and the Brigadier helped the sleeping Vvormak awaken and depart Earth. UNIT assisted with breaking up the exposed Fourth Reich cells.

  w - c 2001 - FP: This Town Will Never Let Us Go [912]

  A timeship involved in the War in Heaven buried itself beneath an unnamed town in England, and took root in its culture. Rocket attacks sometimes besieged the town. The public believed that Faction Paradox was a powerful conspiracy group, and Faction iconography was increasingly in use as a fashion statement. An episode of The Muppet Show was broadcast that perplexingly featured special guest-star George Orwell (who died in 1950). Orwell’s appearance on screen followed a Muppet re-enactment of the Room 101 scene from 1984, starring Rizzo the Rat.

  A paramedic named Valentine Bregman believed that damaging the timeship would trigger a cultural event that would endow the public with a greater awareness of the War. He procured a half-critical mass of Red Uranium - a mythic substance that existed in totemic form. A young woman named Inangela Marrero alternatively wanted to wake the Ship up with a ritual, and tried to stop Bregman. The Red Uranium went off accidentally, and although this only caused a relatively small physical explosion, the totemic nature of the Red Uranium damaged humanity’s collective psyche, threatening to curtail its future potential.

  Four average people (the so-called “Faction Four”) were implicated in the explosion; media coverage of their arrest caused Faction Paradox to be perceived as nothing more than a little band of terrorists with no influence, and its reputation plummeted. Some hope remained that the timeship would repair itself, and that its awakening and launch would help to revive huma
n ingenuity.

  2001 - The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories: “Special Features” [913]

  The fifth Doctor and Nyssa attended the DVD commentary recording for Doctor Demonic’s Tales of Terror, and banished the Racht still living within Joanna Munro.

  (=) c 2001 - Psi-Ence Fiction [914]

  The TARDIS landed at the University of East Wessex, where researcher Barry Hitchens was studying psychic powers. One of his students, Josh Randall, had secretly become a formidable psychic and was viciously making other students hallucinate. Hitchens was being funded by physicist John Finer, who was trying to build a time machine to go back six years to prevent his daughter from dying.

  The fourth Doctor inspected the machine and deduced that its use would destroy the timelines. Randall was driven insane, and deemed himself a god. The TARDIS materialised around the time machine, fixing history. Finer never started his time travel research, and the Doctor and Leela, along with everyone else, forgot that these events ever happened.

  2001 (May to 5th June) - Touched by an Angel [915]

  Rory arrived in May 2001, having been sent there from 2003 by a Weeping Angel. Working to the Doctor’s instructions and armed with a psychic credit card, he arranged for a series of lights, cameras and monitors to be set up in a field in April 2003. Rory was astonished at what could be achieved, if one was willing to prepay.

  On 5th June, the same Rory tracked down the eleventh Doctor, Amy and his earlier self. The quartet went to 21st April, 2003: the day Rebecca Whitaker was fated to die.

  2001 (23rd August) - Project: Twilight [916]

  The Forge-created vampires Amelia Doory and Reggie Mead now owned and operated The Dusk casino in London, and had converted its basement into a secret medical research facility. The sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrived as Nimrod returned to stalk the vampires, and Amelia convinced the Doctor to help her find a cure to vampirism. However, Amelia instead used the Doctor’s discoveries to create The Twilight Virus, an airborne virus capable of converting humans into vampires on contact. She converted Cassie Schofield, now a waitress at The Dusk, into a vampire as a test, but a vengeful Cassie killed Reggie. Nimrod destroyed Amelia’s laboratory and the Doctor confiscated the last vial of Twilight Virus. Amelia went missing in the Thames, and the Doctor helped Cassie relocate to a remote part of Norway.

  2001 - Animal [917]

  Margrave University researchers experimented on ravenous tree-like creatures that originated from a crashed spaceship, in a forest in Mauritania. The alien Numlok walled Margrave off with a force field, presenting themselves as peace-loving herbivores who opposed the eating of animal flesh. The seventh Doctor, Ace and Raine investigated Margrave’s operations, and met with Brigadier Bambera. They discovered that the Numlok were conducting blood tests on people at Margrave to identify the meat-eaters - and then turn them into a dietary supplement the Numlok required. The Doctor prevented a slaughterhouse by allowing the tree-creatures to consume the Numlok, then sent the Numlok’s spaceship - with the tree-creatures aboard - back to the Numlok homeworld as a warning to leave Earth alone.

  The Metatraxi had now become the objects of ridicule following the Doctor’s irreversibly switching their translator to “surfer dude” mode in 1989, and refused his request for assistance. Raine looked up her father on the Internet... and discovered that he had died. Nonetheless, she continued travelling with the Doctor and Ace.

  Raine eventually left the TARDIS to investigate her father’s affairs. She was breaking into a hotel safe in Johannesburg when the Metatraxi captured her, and used the rudimentary time technology they’d developed to take her to the future - as bait for the Doctor. [918]

  2001 - Head Games [919]

  General Lethbridge-Stewart was semi-retired. Ace met up with a future version of the seventh Doctor, who informed her that his evil duplicate Dr Who was planning to assassinate the Queen. The Queen was shot in Sheffield, but wasn’t even slightly injured. Meanwhile, UNIT forces were involved in an assault on Buckingham Palace. Brigadier Bambera arrived in a Merlin T-22 VTOL aircraft and penetrated a force field surrounding the palace.

  Dr Who had been created by a spiteful Jason, the ex-Master of the Land of Fiction. The Doctor counselled Jason and convinced him to dissipate Dr Who. Jason and Dr Who had rescued Melanie Bush from the planet Avalone in the future - she decried the violent, manipulative methods used by the seventh Doctor and his new companions (Benny, Roz and Chris) to solve problems, and parted on bad terms with him on modern-day Earth.

  At this time, Bernice kicked a mangled drinks can into the middle of a path. Four and a half hours later, a young man stumbled over it on his bike and suffered slight bruising. This instigated a chain reaction of small historical alterations that climaxed directly before the Draconian War in the twenty-sixth century.

  By now, Bambera and Ancelyn had given birth to twins. [920] In September 2001, Owen Harper had been qualified as a physician for six months. The alien Mary tore the heart out of 43-year-old Lucy Marmer, and Owen was present when Lucy’s body was brought into Cardiff General Hospital. [921] The elder Mark Whitaker had foreknowledge of the destruction of the World Trade Center, but held his tongue, fearful of interfering with history. [922] After 11th September, 2001, the American CIA cross-referenced its 456 files under “Worldwide Incursion” and designation JF323B. [923]

  The Rutan Host occasionally separated and exiled individual Rutans, including those that were exposed to neural toxins from a Sontaran bioweapon. A ship containing one such rogue Rutan crashed in Algeria in November, and was retrieved by the United Kingdom. [924]

  2001 (November) - “The Fallen” [925]

  The dead were walking in West Norwood in London, and seven people had disappeared. The eighth Doctor and Izzy discovered Grace Holloway investigating with MI6, which was secretly run by Leighton Woodrow.

  Grace had recovered the Master’s DNA from her encounter with him. Working with the scientist Donald Stark, she hoped to unlock the secrets of regeneration - she thought the eighth Doctor had been hinting she should do so by mentioning he was half-human, and telling her to hold back death. However, Grace’s sample wasn’t Time Lord DNA as she had believed. Stark was transformed into a snake creature - a morphant from Skaro like the Master before him. The Doctor destroyed the Stark monster, even as Woodrow decided to blame the explosion on Arab terrorists. As the Doctor left, Woodrow found one of his men... killed by the Master’s tissue compression eliminator.

  Donna Noble’s mother gifted her with Tesco’s brand of unisex perfume, Odeur Delaware, at Christmas 2001. Donna used it to treat bites and stings - and, in future, sprayed it into the eyes of a hostile female Sycorax. [926]

  2002

  Mickey Smith’s mother had been unable to cope with raising him, and his father - Jeremiah Smith, who formerly worked at the key-cutters on Clifton Parade - went to Spain and never returned. Mickey was raised by his blind gran, but she died after tripping and falling down the stairs. [927] The “Great Drought of ‘02” affected the UK. [928] The main Xhinn fleet was due to arrive on Earth in 2002. [929] The Council of Eight arranged for a drug overdose to kill Sam Jones, a former companion of the Doctor, who had become an ecocampaigner. [930] The eighth Doctor found another part of Octan’s skeleton in New York, 2002. [931]

  Zero, the orange, gelatinous child of a Vortex Dweller, came through the Rift and wound up in a cell at the Torchwood Hub in Cardiff. [932] The fertiliser Bloom was developed, but it was viral and spread uncontrollably. It was banned before 2010. [933]

  c 2002 - The Ratings War [934]

  The tyrannical Beep the Meep escaped from his imprisonment in a Lassie film, and used blackstar radiation to mesmerise executives at a TV network. Under Beep’s direction, the network enjoyed success with shows such as Appealing Animals in Distress and Hospital Street, the first ever 24-hour soap opera.

  Beep sought to brainwash the public through subliminal messages jointly seeded into the final episode of Audience Shares, and the debut of Be
ep and Friends. The sixth Doctor crushed this scheme, and exposed Beep’s murderous tendencies on national television. Authorities apprehended the raving Meep.

  2002 - The Forge: Project: Valhalla [935]

  Nimrod recruited Cassie Schofield, who had become savage during her self-imposed exile, as an agent of the Forge.

  2002 (6th June) - Tales from the Vault [936]

  The fourth Doctor and Romana checked an art gallery to see if the Doctor had left himself any messages in the corners of paintings, and learned that one of the great lost art treasures of the universe - the Quistador Molari - was on sale at a London auction house. The painting had caused more suffering than any other work in history, including everything by Tracey Emin, because it would depict the future death of anyone who looked at it, driving them mad. The Doctor took the painting away to destroy it, but as he didn’t dare look at the item, Sergeant Ruth Matheson of UNIT substituted a fake beforehand. The genuine item wound up in Unit’s Vault, and was classified as an Omega 10 artifact, only to be used when all alternatives had failed.

  2002 (7th June) - Benny: Secret Origins [937]

  The android Robyn and a temporal projection of Bernice Summerfield encountered their arch-nemesis, Samuel Frost. He procured the Right and Left Hands of God - powerful artifacts that granted great power to anyone attaching them to a handless statue of Arincias, one of the lost gods of Atlantis.

  Sarah Jane Smith Series 1 [938]

  Sarah Jane Smith was now crafting exposes for Planet 3 Broadcasting. The Crimson Chapter tested Sarah to see if she was the herald cited in The Book of Tomorrows, and so provided backing to the former members of Think Tank and their leader, Hilda Winters. The ex-Think Tank members arranged for Sarah to be fired when accusations she levelled against Halter Corp, a Scottish fishery, were thought to be based upon false evidence. Her reputation in tatters, Sarah began living under various aliases. [939]