Authors: Lance Parkin,Lars Pearson
c 2004 - The Deadstone Memorial
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The long-lived Henry Deadstone, having established an identity as the old man Crawley, continued to tend to the alien psychic force he’d encountered some centuries ago. The eighth Doctor intervened when the creature tried and failed to reunite itself, causing psychic terror for the local McKeown family. The anguished creature withdrew its power from Deadstone and he instantly aged to death. The Doctor returned the creature to its home dimension.
2005
In 2005, Ianto Jones joined Torchwood London as a junior researcher.
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2005 (New Year’s Day) - The End of Time (TV)
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The dying tenth Doctor met Rose and Jackie on New Year’s Day. He realised that Rose hadn’t met him yet, but assured her she would have a fantastic year. Rose headed away, and the Doctor saw a vision of Ood Sigma - who told him his song had come to an end. The Doctor returned to the TARDIS, put it in motion and regenerated...
2005 (New Year’s Day) - The Eleventh Hour
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The TARDIS careened out of control, and the newly regenerated eleventh Doctor held on for dear life as it fell back through time...
2005 - Iris: Wildthyme at Large
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Agents of an extra-dimensional being - who manifested in our reality as a severed head on a pike - sought out Iris Wildthyme because the knowledge she’d acquired in her travels could be used to help plan an invasion. Many of Iris’ memories had been siphoned into a jewel from the mines of Marleon, and she entrusted the gem to her former companion Tom. His sentient stuffed Panda bear smashed the jewel, depriving the villains of their prize. The Head returned to its home dimension, and Tom and Panda took up travelling with Iris...
Panda couldn’t remember his origins - not even if he was unique, or but one of a race of ten-inch-tall, talking pandas. He did, at least, remember living in London with Tom, and experienced love at first sight upon finally meeting Iris.
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2005 - Iris: The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme
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Tom and Panda were chagrined because Iris had promised them adventures, but her bus had wound up in London, right back where they’d started. The remnant of Asmedaj that was squirrelled away in Iris’ mind had been freed when the Marleon crystal broke - but he’d been altered by his interaction with Iris’ memories and the Marleon crystal, and so was restored to life as a sheep. Iris, Tom and Panda left Earth for some proper adventuring.
? 2005 - SJA: Lost in Time
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Two children accidentally started a house fire while their babysitter was busy elsewhere. Sarah Jane and Emily Morris, operating from 1889, used a chronosteel key to open the children’s bedroom door, saving them.
2005 - Erimem: The Coming of the Queen
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Carra Wilton, the youngest professor of Egyptology in England, discovered a tomb that related some of the story of the Pharaoh Erimem. The fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem herself were in attendance nine months later at the National Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, where artifacts from the tomb were on display.
2005 (5th-6th March) - Rose
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Rose Tyler worked at Henrik’s department store in London, which was the location of a secret Auton transmitter. She met the ninth Doctor shortly before he blew up the store, and accidentally took an Auton arm home with her. The Doctor found the arm and deactivated it. Fascinated by the Doctor, Rose tracked down Clive, who ran a website charting appearances of the Doctor over the years. Rose met up with the Doctor again and helped him defeat the Nestene invasion, but not before Auton shop dummies rampaged through London. Seventy-eight people were killed (including Clive), three hundred injured. Rose joined the Doctor on his travels.
Rose’s disappearance prompted the police to search for her. Her boyfriend Mickey Smith was interviewed by the police, who - like Rose’s mother Jackie - assumed that he had murdered her.
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UNIT Series 1
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c 2005 - UNIT: The Coup
Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood now commanded the UK branch of UNIT; Colonel Emily Chaudhry served as its press officer.
The fortunes of the UK division of UNIT waned, and it was ordered to cede authority to a new organisation, Britain’s Internal Counter-Intelligence Service (ICIS). The day before the transition, UNIT and ICIS troops battled some Silurians - actually delegates who had been petitioning for months for a peace treaty - near Tower Bridge. Orgath, a Silurian ambassador, approached General Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for help. Sir Alistair held a press conference and disclosed that UNIT had protected the world from unnatural and extra-terrestrial threats for “nearly forty years”, and had thwarted more than two hundred alien invasions. He then presented Orgath as a Silurian representative. Captain Andrea Winnington of the ICIS was arrested after trying to kill Orgath, which weakened the group’s standing. UNIT’s authority was restored.
Despite Sir Alistair’s best efforts, the Silurian bid for diplomatic relations was regarded as a hoax, and Orgath taken by some for a man in a rubber suit.
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c 2005 - UNIT: Time Heals
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Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood was secretly the head of the ICIS. The group staunchly opposed forces they perceived were weakening Britain’s sovereignty. UNIT announced that it would be moving nuclear weapons across Britain - a cover story to conceal transport of an alien spaceship. A team of ICIS soldiers captured the spaceship and “kidnapped” Brimmicombe-Wood - so he could continue ICIS’ work in secret. Colonel Robert Dalton became UNIT’s acting commanding officer. The ICIS experimented on the captured spaceship - when opened, it released an alien virus. In the weeks to come, it manifested as a deadly flu outbreak.
Attempts to reverse-engineer the spaceship’s transporter caused freak side-effects. A high-speed train from Lancaster to King’s Cross collided head-on with another train, and bank ATMs disgorged an estimated £70 million. A jet plane crashed into Windsor Castle; rumours variously said that two members of the royal family, or perhaps “the prince and a close friend” had been killed.
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The reactor aboard the HMS
Perthshire
was breached; it was buried under millions of tons of rock on offshore continental shelf just before it went critical. The British public suspected the incidents owed to terrorists.
Sir Alistair aided UNIT’s investigations. Doris was currently away visiting her ailing sister.
c 2005 (spring) - UNIT: Snake Head
Colonels Emily Chaudhry and Robert Dalton investigated a series of mysterious deaths near a Saxon burial ground in Southend. They killed a type of vampire - a vrykolaka - that had been used by a crooked restaurateur, Kevin Lee, to eliminate a group of cockle-pickers.
The deaths were blamed on Goran Dhampir, a self-proclaimed vrykolaka hunter. His arrest increased racial tensions in Southend.
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c 2005 (spring) - UNIT: The Longest Night
The Prime Minister signed the Euro Combine treaty to enhance ties between Britain and Europe. Critics said the treaty was a threat to British sovereignty.
The ICIS had supplied Major Philip Kirby, a sympathiser and the Prime Minister’s press secretary, with alien brainwashing technology. Kirby used this to trigger societal unrest - he made a suicide bomber blow up the Vita Futura nightclub, a symbol of Britain’s multiculturalism. ICIS agents dressed as policemen killed several survivors - including Lt. Will Hoffman of UNIT - to prevent the bomber being identified. The incident was blamed upon Abdul Malik Hassib, a Muslim student.
The resultant racial tensions, combined with a worsening flu epidemic and further terror incidents, caused a decline in social order. London experienced rioting and an increasing death toll - Albion Hospital was overwhelmed, people took shelter in Westminster Abbey and the government grounded all flights out of the city. The Prime Minister’s deputy, Meena Cartwright, disclosed that her family had been abducted and - in accordance with the kidnappers’ instructions - killed herself on live television. A suicide bomber devastated BBC Television Centre, taking the network off the air.
A confession obtained from Kirby was broadcast and restored some calm - but he triggered explosives that obliterated himself, Colonel Dalton and 10 Downing Street.
c 2005 (spring) - UNIT: The Wasting
The flu epidemic went global. Britain alone had six hundred thousand cases; those afflicted became violent as their flesh rotted. St. Catherine’s was reserved for flu victims. The Prime Minister mobilised the army to maintain order.
Sir Alistair contacted Harry Sullivan, who was doing secret work for NATO at Deepcastle, to analyse the disease victims. Sullivan’s team determined that the flu virus was an alien food additive designed to make human flesh more palatable for consumption. Silurian scientists aided Sullivan in developing a vaccine. Sir Alistair aided UNIT in dispersing the vaccine into the atmosphere via an old missile facility in the former Soviet Union.
Chaudhry exposed Brimmicombe-Wood as the head of the ICIS; he was arrested on charges of terrorism and treason, and the ICIS was shut down. UNIT was given new funding. Chaudhry was appointed its new commanding officer, with Sir Alistair serving as an unofficial adviser.
c 2005 - Death Comes to Time
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General Tannis, commander of the Canisian armies, conquered the planet Santiny in violation of the Treaty of Carsulae. The seventh Doctor and his companion Antimony arrived to ferment resistance, but were abruptly summoned to the Orion Nebula. There, the Minister of Chance - an old friend of the Doctor - warned him that someone had killed two Time Lord “saints” working on Earth. The Doctor headed there to investigate; the Minister travelled to Santiny.
The Doctor discovered that a vampire, Nessican, had murdered the Time Lords to cover up their discovery of massive spatial disturbances. He returned to Santiny, where Tannis killed Antimony - who was actually an android - and revealled himself to be a renegade Time Lord. When Tannis killed Sala, a young woman the Minister had become fond of, the Minister unleashed the full force of his Time Lord powers. The Doctor could not act against Tannis, but had to punish the Minister - all part of Tannis’ plan to divide and distract his rival Time Lords. The Doctor stripped the Minister of his powers, but Tannis launched an invasion of Earth.
Meanwhile, Ace trained to become a Time Lord with a mentor, Casmus, and the mysterious Kingmaker. Reunited, the Doctor and Ace headed for Earth, where they helped Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT - now with a fleet of shuttles at their disposal - repel the Canisian invasion. The Doctor used his Time Lord powers to destroy Tannis and himself. The Canisians were defeated.
Felix Mather was the US Secretary of State during the Canisian invasion.
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Iris WIldthyme’s companion Panda got a scratch on his nose when a bike-riding George Bush ran over him.
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2005 (spring) - TW: Fragments
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Owen Harper’s fiancée, Kate Russell, died when an alien life form incubated in her brain. Jack Harkness covered up the incident.
c 2005 - “The Flood”
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The eighth Doctor and Destrii arrived in Camden Market, and quickly discovered that people were over-reacting emotionally. The Doctor also learned that MI6 were in the area. Destrii’s senses registered two advanced Cybermen, who begin to convert the population and captured her. The Doctor worked with MI6, convinced these were the most advanced Cybermen he’d ever seen.
The Cybermen neutralised British defences, and their mothership materialised over London. They created a rainstorm that soaked the MI6 personnel, and caused extreme emotional reactions - the humans gladly became Cybermen to cure themselves. The Cybermen planned to flood the world in this way.
Desperate, the Doctor offered to allow the Cybermen to kill him and study his regeneration if the Cybermen returned to their own time - this would allow Cybermen to convert other races, not just humans, into their own kind. The Doctor freed Destrii, who distracted the Cybermen while he leapt into the mothership’s power source - a fragment of the Time Vortex. He focused the power there and destroyed the Cybership, whereupon he and Destrii went off to their next adventure.
2005 (June) - The Gallifrey Chronicles
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