B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (142 page)

2006 (September) - Boom Town
 [1065]

Margaret Slitheen, a.k.a. Margaret Blaine, became Lord Mayor of Cardiff and pushed through construction of the Blaidd Drwg Power Station, which she had designed to destroy Earth and facilitate her escape into space on an Extrapolator surfboard. The ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack landed in Cardiff to refuel the TARDIS and captured Margaret. Exposure to the heart of the TARDIS reverted Margaret to her original state as an egg. The Doctor returned Margaret to her home planet, Raxacoricofallapatorius, to start life anew.

Margaret’s scheme to destroy Earth to facilitate her escape had wracked Cardiff with an earthquake
; officially, she was believed to have died during the event.
 [1066]

The TARDIS’ chameleon circuit welded its properties onto a very small area of the Rift, and created a perceptual blind spot.
 [1067]

2006 - The Deviant Strain
 [1068]

The ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack arrived at Novrosk Peninsula in Siberia, the site of an old Soviet base. There had recently been a series of mysterious deaths, which the Doctor determined was caused by the defence systems of a crashed ship from the Arcane Collegiate. The threat was dispelled when the Doctor destroyed the ship.

2006 - Only Human
 [1069]

The ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack arrived in Bromley to investigate temporal distortion caused by a “dirty rip” engine. They discovered a Neanderthal named Das at a local hospital. Das couldn’t return home because the dirty rip engine had weakened his structure, but the Doctor and Rose went to 29,185 BC to locate the source of the problem. With Jack’s help, Das quickly got a job in construction and married a girl called Anne-Marie.

Suzie Costello of Torchwood recovered an alien device that could open any lock.
 [1070]

2006 (22nd September) - The Gathering
 [1071]

Scarred by her brother’s misfortune, Katherine Chambers envisioned the removal of humanity’s weaknesses and emotions through widespread Cybertisation. She worked toward the creation of System, the ultimate medical computer. Aiding her was James Clarke, secretly an agent of the Forge.

Tegan Jovanka now had a brain tumour - possibly the result of her travels with the Doctor - and was deemed by Kathy, an acquaintance of hers, as a perfect test subject. James and Kathy created System using Cyber-technology, but the fifth Doctor was on hand and convinced the half-human Nate Chambers to activate System’s self-destruct. James escaped, but Chambers Pharmaceuticals exploded, killing Nate. Kathy was believed dead, but the Doctor took her elsewhere to be looked after.

Tegan resumed her romance with Michael Tenaka and turned down the Doctor’s offer of finding treatment for her brain tumour.

2006 - The Parting of the Ways
 [1072]

The ninth Doctor forcibly returned Rose to her native time aboard the TARDIS, removing her from the Dalek incursion in 200,100. Rose realised that the words “Bad Wolf” had been scattered throughout time and space as a message that she should return to the fray, and she exposed the heart of the TARDIS with help from her mother and Mickey. Rose and the TARDIS returned to 200,100.

By now, the general population knew that aliens had invaded Earth over a dozen times. In 2006, Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart published her controversial bestseller
The Zen Military: A History of UNIT
. Lethbridge-Stewart was the granddaughter of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and Mariatu of the Themne tribe, making her ideally placed to write the “definitive” study of the UNIT era.
 [1073]

Cathy Salt, the pregnant journalist spared by Margaret Slitheen, was scheduled to marry Jeffrey on 19th October.
 [1074]
In November, Jackie Tyler started going out with Howard from the market.
 [1075]
On 23rd November, 2006, Lucia Moretti, a former Torchwood operative, died from heart failure.
 [1076]

2006 (November to December) - Iceberg
 [1077]

Earth’s magnetic pole shifted slightly, causing consternation at the FLIPback project. Tensions were not eased when the nearby Nikkei 5 research station vanished into the Torus Antarctica. The Cybermen were behind both the disappearances and the magnetic fluctuations, but the seventh Doctor defeated them with the help of journalist Ruby Duvall.

2006 (24th-25th December) - The Christmas Invasion
 [1078]

The newly-regenerated tenth Doctor arrived back on Earth with Rose. He recovered in Jackie’s flat, and became the target of robot Santas and a killer Christmas tree. These were just “pilot fish” for the Sycorax, whose vast spacecraft intercepted the British Guinevere 1 Probe to Mars and set course for Earth.

NATO went to red alert. Prime Minister Harriet Jones took control of UNIT’s command centre underneath the Tower of London, where the Sycorax made contact and lay claim to the entire Earth. As a means of blackmail, they used “blood control” to hypnotically command one-third of the population, including the Royal Family, to walk to the nearest rooftop.

Jones made a public appeal to the Doctor as the Sycorax ship arrived over London. Jones, Major Blake of UNIT, Danny Llewellyn of the British Rocket Group and the PM’s aide Alex were teleported to the Sycorax ship, where Llewellyn and Blake were quickly killed. The Doctor recovered and challenged the Sycorax leader to a duel. The leader cut off the Doctor’s hand with a sword, but as the Doctor was within the first fifteen hours of his regeneration cycle, he was able to regrow the hand and go on to kill the Sycorax leader. The Sycorax retreated.

Harriet Jones feared that the Sycorax would spread word about the Earth, and that more alien invaders would return in the Doctor’s absence. She ordered Torchwood to destroy the retreating Sycorax ship with an energy weapon - whereupon the horrified Doctor called Jones’ fitness to lead into question, and deposed her with a single sentence (“Don’t you think she looks tired?”). Questions were raised about Jones’ health, and a vote of no confidence was quickly scheduled.

The British could use “the Hubble array” to track spacecraft. The Sycorax used the Sycoraxic language.

Many people went to Trafalgar Square to celebrate - Ursula Blake was among them, and while there happened to take a picture of the Doctor.
 [1079]
Donna Noble missed the excitement of Christmas Day because she had a bit of a hangover.
 [1080]
The Doctor’s severed hand ended up in the archives of Torchwood Cardiff.
 [1081]
The Sycorax leader defeated by the Doctor fell to Earth at Westminster Abbey.
 [1082]

The newly-regenerated Master arrived on Earth from the end of the universe, and adopted the alias “Harold Saxon”. He faked his past, and set up the Archangel Network of satellites to subliminally influence the British public into supporting his policies. The Archangel signals also masked the Master’s presence, and preventing the Doctor from detecting him in this time zone. The Master married a woman named Lucy, and his meteoric rise saw him become Minister of Defence. In such a position, he helped to design a flying aircraft carrier, the
Valiant
.
 [1083]

After the Sycorax Invasion, some people obsessed with the Doctor formed the group LINDA.
 [1084]

c 2006 - “The Lodger” (
DWM
)
 [1085]

The tenth Doctor popped in to see Mickey, telling him that he and Rose had just escaped some Lombards - but that the TARDIS had accidentally jumped a time track, so Rose wouldn’t be showing up for a couple of days. Jackie was occupied with a man called Alan, so the Doctor stayed with Mickey. After the Doctor beat him at video games
and
tuned his TV so that Mickey got programmes from ten years in the future
and
ruined a night in planned with a girl called Gina, Mickey got sick of him. After a few days, the TARDIS arrived with Rose. The Doctor arranged it so that Mickey and Rose had a nice Sunday together.

c 2006 - New Earth
 [1086]

The tenth Doctor and Rose set off on their travels, leaving behind Jackie and Mickey.

There was Graske activity on Earth.
 [1087]
A group of Groske, similar in form to the Graske but with blue skin, were stranded on Earth in 2006. UNIT made them earn their keep as engineers.
 [1088]

2007
 [1089]

The Krillitanes were a composite species, given to absorbing the physical aspects of the races they conquered and destroyed. A small group of them took on human form and infiltrated Deffry Vale School, with “Mr Finch” taking over as headmaster.
 [1090]

Joseph Serf, the owner of Serf Systems, died in a skiing accident in 2007. John Harrison, Serf’s public relations officer, purchased a group of Scullions - short aliens with only one eye - on the black market after their ship crash-landed in Central Asia. With the Scullions manipulating a holographic image of Joseph Serf, Harrison covered up the man’s death and assumed control of the company.
 [1091]

In 2007, Jack Harkness, Owen Harper and Suzie Costello dealt with ravenous creatures masquerading as schoolchildren. A school teacher, Eryn Bunting, saw the creatures and was given Retcon. Suzie stole one of Eryn’s bank slips, and set up a secret account for herself under Eryn’s name.
 [1092]
Elena Hilda Al-Qatari became ill and requested a replacement to head the Rawbone Project, which renewed the government’s interest in it.
 [1093]

Maxwell Edison set up the Stockbridge Preservation Society to protest Khrysalis Corporation building a leisure park.
 [1094]
Henry John Parker acquired extra-terrestrial items that included a Dogon eye, Ikean wings, and an alien translation of James Herbert’s
The Fog
(1975).
 [1095]

Tamsin Drew, a future companion of the eighth Doctor and the Monk, appeared in an advert for leg wax.
 [1096]
She also worked for a summer at the London dungeon, as a Cockney drab who was killed by Jack the Ripper.
 [1097]

Coldfire Construction, a front for the Slitheen, started expanding and specialised in the installation of technology blocks in schools in London, Barcelona, Washington D.C., Santiago, Los Angeles, Sydney, Beijing, Moscow, Naples and Paris.
 [1098]
A geologist friend sent Sarah Jane a crystal found at the site of Krakatoa - as Sarah quickly discovered, the crystal revealled itself to be alive when it communicated with her laptop. Following its instructions, she built a computer to house its sentience, which she called Mr Smith and kept in her attic. Mr Smith offered to help Sarah protect Earth and monitor extra-terrestrial activity, and dutifully did so. In secret, however, Mr Smith schemed to release its brethren, the Xylox, from their imprisonment beneath the Earth.
 [1099]

2007 - The Stone Rose
 [1100]

Mickey showed the tenth Doctor and Rose a statue from Ancient Rome in the British Museum - one that depicted Rose. The Doctor and Rose travelled back in time to investigate.

2007 - The Feast of the Drowned
 [1101]

The HMS
Ascendant
sank in the North Sea, killing Jay, the brother of Rose’s friend Keisha. The tenth Doctor and Rose arrived, discovering that a number of people had died in London since wreckage from the
Ascendant
was brought there. Relatives of the dead were apparently being contacted by the ghosts of the drowned, but this was a side effect of alien technology. The Waterhive were attempting to conquer the world, but the Doctor thwarted them.

2007 - Cuddlesome
 [1102]

Ronald Turvey was released from prison, but his toy factory at Shoreham Harbour was defunct. The Tinghus within Turvey formed a plan: new Cuddlesomes would be manufactured that could transform people into Tinghus-human hybrids. A recall signal summoned the 1980s Cuddlesomes to their birthplace, and a rumble broke out between the different generations of Cuddlesomes. The fifth Doctor witnessed the Cuddlesome slaughter, which ended when Turvey and the Tinghus (which manifested as a giant Cuddlesome) both died, rendering the Cuddlesomes inactive.