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Post by Catsmate on Nov 15, 2014 15:01:13 GMT
Inspired by an idea from thereviewer1; three parallel universes intersecting, each with a different version of the Doctor. One is the usual Whoniverse Time Lord, one is gender reversed and the third is, well, evil. For some reason this appealed to me3 and between us we've developed a sort-of timeline for the Evil Doctor (or eDoctor 4) up to the death of his seventh incarnation. I've just restarted on this, beginning with the eighth eDoctor, and I wondered if anyone else here would be interested.
So, in case anyone else is interested in this perversion of the Whoniverse, and with the agreement of thereviewer, I give you The Evil Doctor. Different beginnings.
As Diary of DWRPG puts it 2, "every villain needs transport, a good weapon, a trusty multi-tool and minions". Well in his fist incarnation the eDoctor has maybe two of those. His TARDIS, once a sturdy if utterly obsolete Type 40, suffered badly breaking through the Transduction Barrier around Gallifrey; the navigation sub-system was shot, the internal defenses mostly gone too. Even the chameleon circuit looked likely to fail at any second. Luckily the course was engaged before the nav-system was fried.
Though A Glass Darkly.If the Doctor is evil, what else in the Whoniverse had had it's polarity reversed? I've gone with most of his companions, UNIT (or a version of it anyway) and Britain (for the beginning anyway). After all he'll need a few minions (and it's so difficult to find a really good cadre of amoral minions). When he arrives on 1962 Earth he's not just leaving a Gallifrey indifferent to him; his experiments in genetic and cybernetic "enhancement" of Susan were looked upon with horror and his departure was hurried. He's now stuck in a authoritarian police state that's on it's last legs, no papers or background, the Republican Security Force to worry about, and a damaged TARDIS. Even when he leaves (perhaps with a couple of locals unwillingly on board; possibly useful cannon-fodder for his plans) he's got a TARDIS he can't direct, and limited resources with which to carry out his grandiose plans. Characteristics.Bombastic, megalomaniacal, arrogant, a little lazy and given to grandiose gestures; not particularly sadistic (at least not compared to some of his future incarnations). Rather fond of poisons too. He's not actually the most competent would-be conqueror. His minions (not companions) are generally expendable, a mix of cannon fodder (sometimes hypnotised) or hench-people with useful skills and something to gain from allying themselves with an alien of dubious stability and plans of conquest. Alas for the eDoctor there's a shortage of psychopaths, serial killers and sadists in the general population; but he'll find a few. His signature weapon is the 'burner', heat projector weapon capable of causing intense pain, stunning, or leaving a charred corpse. He's reasonably capable with hypnosis and contact mind reading (mind-rape).
So, should I continue with this here? The next part is mostly game related, stats for the eDoctor1, minions and gear; after that are the adventures (outlines really).
Or is this the worst idea since War of the Daleks and best dropped?
1 Which means he takes a share of the blame... 2 Issue 14, the Villains special. 3 No psychoanalysis please 4 A term I wouldn't have started using had I realised how badly the forum's cut/paste works with superscripts.
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 15, 2014 18:44:01 GMT
Remember how he used his ring to break through the force field that the Monk had set up around the TARDIS lock? Rather than a generic "burner", why not give him an alternate version of the ring that absorbs light from the surrounding environment and focuses it into energy blasts? It would even create a cool effect with the immediate area growing darker when he fires it.
I suppose Ian and Barbara could be security agents infiltrated into Coal Hill School to investigate Susan.
Is this the same alternate Britain that we see in "Inferno"? David A. McIntee's "Face of the Enemy" explored the idea of the survivors of the fascist Republic capturing an alternate, "good" version of the Master. He might make an interesting antagonist for an alternate Third Doctor
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 15, 2014 21:08:00 GMT
Remember how he used his ring to break through the force field that the Monk had set up around the TARDIS lock? Rather than a generic "burner", why not give him an alternate version of the ring that absorbs light from the surrounding environment and focuses it into energy blasts? It would even create a cool effect with the immediate area growing darker when he fires it. Damn that's good. I think a re-write/retcon is in order. Thanks. I suppose Ian and Barbara could be security agents infiltrated into Coal Hill School to investigate Susan. Well in the current version they're still just teachers, albeit with rather different personalities. Though eJo and eShaw (Liz that is) work for the RSF, specifically the Special Services Directorate. - Think UNIT without the moderation of the Doctor, and with ready access to nuclear weapons and a willingness to use them. ("It's only Wales, no-one cares. At least no-one I care about cares".)
- The main RSF is basically a paramilitary gendarmerie, which has also assimilated MI5 functions for internal security.
Is this the same alternate Britain that we see in "Inferno"? David A. McIntee's "Face of the Enemy" explored the idea of the survivors of the fascist Republic capturing an alternate, "good" version of the Master. He might make an interesting antagonist for an alternate Third Doctor We think alike. Koschei will appear (as will Mortimus). Face of the Enemy and The Dark Path are among my favourite EU novels. However this Whoniverse isn't the Infernoverse, as described by McIntee (though I've taken elements from it); Britain is fascist (though the term itself isn't used) but much of the rest of the world isn't. The Republic has a flavour of North Korea today; isolated and considered slightly nuts. Think 1990 the series. The other major players are the European Federation (larger than historical and far more integrated); the North American Federation is emerging as a major player, dominated of course by the Canadian/Californian axis; India is a (small r) republic; Japan is still a militaristic and rather fascist state (but kept busy with internal strife and the running sore of China); and the Eurasian Confederation, a rather loose agglomeration of states formed after the Eurasian war and the end of the fascist Russian empire. Actually outside China and the BR (especially Scotland; 'Red Clyde' wasn't a metaphor), it's a reasonably nice place. I have a lot of background and material for this; it's about fifty pages in Word.
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Post by da professor on Nov 16, 2014 9:13:55 GMT
I like what I'm seeing so far. Perhaps in future-set episodes British style tyranny spreads to the stars and the daleks are the one great hope for galactic freedom.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 16, 2014 9:41:40 GMT
I like what I'm seeing so far. Perhaps in future-set episodes British style tyranny spreads to the stars and the daleks are the one great hope for galactic freedom. You're half right...
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 16, 2014 10:19:01 GMT
Well as there seems to be some interest I'll continue.Part 1 – First eDoctor - overview, minions and gadgets.TARDIS Stuck in the form of a police box in the red livery of the British Republic, complete with propaganda posters ('Service of the State', 'Unity is Strength'), handcuff loops and early CCTV camera mast. - Keys generally are not given to minions.
Later the eDoctor fits the TARDIS with a traversable energy weapon in the camera mount, capable of operating in several modes; wide angle pain or tun field, or a destructive energy blast (5/10/15 at low, 10/20/30 at high though at reduced rate of fire). The TARDIS also has detention cells, a torture/interrogation suite, an armoury and other useful features. - The armoury is reasonably stocked (mainly purloined from collections on Gallifrey) with swords, maces, axes, daggers, bows, crossbows, friction lock pistols and muskets, revolvers, pistols, rifles, shotguns, sub-machine guns, grenades, lasers, blasters, even some disupters and stasers.
- Plus some heavier stuff such as a 6-pounder cannon, machine guns, rocket launchers et cetera
- And at least one electromag mortar with a case of mini-nuke shells...
Background.The eDoctor was forced to leave Gallifrey because of some genetic experimentation he'd performed on the Gallifreyan genome (highly taboo); his 'granddaughter' Susan was the result, she has genetic grafts and some cybernetics. He fled fled from Gallifrey ahead of her destruction and a few centuries of Matrix imprisonment for him. He'd intended to land on Earth in the late twentieth century, a period he was familiar with from field work but undershot by a few decades; instead of arriving in the safe and cosmopolitan 1990s they end up in the less than safe early 1960s. The Revolution is more than a decade in the future and the fascist regime is still very much in power, with the National Constabulary and the RSF maintaining order. - The Hand of Alpha, which the eDoctor stole from Gallifrey has been stashed for later retrieval. He's trying to keep a low profile and doesn't want to risk it alerting the Time Lords.
Britain in the early sixties; poor, dirty and isolated. 'Dirty old town' as the song put it 1. Keeping up appearances. The National Constabulary and the Republican Security Force keep the populace under control, occasionally aided by the armed forces. Smog almost universal, electricity blackouts. Technologically somewhat backward, and getting worse. Propaganda posters are ubiquitous. The smart people realise the end is coming and are making plans; internal politics are vicious. - The regime is desperate for an miracle, or at least an edge in the ongoing Winter War; hence the SSD and it's interest in alien technology and other potential game changers.
eDoctor 1 Awareness 4 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 7 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 2 Convince 5, Fighting 3, Knowlege 3, Marksman 2, Medicine 3, Science 5, Subterfuge 4, Survival 1, Technology 5, Transport 2 Adversary (Dals, Mortimus, usually someone), Argumentative, Boffin, Eccentric, Epicurean Taste, Feel the Turn of the Universe, Impulsive, Random Regenerator, Resourceful Pockets, Selfish, Sesquipedalian, Technically Adept, Time Lord, Vortex, Equipment: carries a 'burner', a wand styled weapon that uses a combination of microwaves and heat, contained by a force field; on the lowest settings it can daze, paralyse or cause pain, higher settings causes consciousness or severe (and variable) burns, higher still kills through matter disruption. It has two special tricks; the ability to encapsulate the victim in a heat bubble, slowly (well in 30 seconds or so) roasting them and leaving a charred corpse. Other toys: - a sword-stick (with a stunner in the grip and a couple of other tricks such as a gas spray, compartments for poison, small tools et cetera)
- ring with a poison needle ("let us shake on that")
- compact pocket blaster
- brandy flask with a drug compartment that's triggered by a hidden catch ("All right, I'll drink first")
- an electro-optical monocular that resembles a small brass telescope
- a pocket watch (scanner)
- an automatic lockpick
- drug kit (small box with various poisons [including several to which Gallifreyans are immune], antidotes, drugs with
which he's quite expert
May also carry: - a few compact explosive grenades (that can be dropped as mines)
- Staser pistol
- caseless machine pistol ("all that noise impresses the primitives my boy") firing explosive bullets
Minions.Expend as needed. They are a mix of hypnotised or otherwise controlled cannon fodder and useful minions with something to gain or another reason to work with the eDoctor. There's a shortage of psychopaths, serial killers and sadists in the general population. eIan Science teacher, jingoistic and somewhat bigoted; fairly intelligent; likes gadgets; as a conscript he served in a minor colonial war/skirmish in some corner of the tattered remnant of the Empire. Tends to use force first, doesn't trust aliens or non-British seeming humans for that matter. Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 4 Presence 3 Resolve 3 Strength 4 Athletics 2, Convince 2, Fighting 3, Knowledge 3, Marksman 3, Medicine 1, Science 3, Subterfuge 2, Technology 2, Transport 2 Attractive, Bigot, Brave, Face in the Crowd, Impulsive, Indomitable, Lucky, Quick Reflexes, Sense of Direction Equipment: pocketknife, torch, matches, wallet (with money and ID); Sterling revolver and ammunition (soon lost to Barbara); at various times carries a .38 Webley pistol (from the police constable the eDoctor killed), a laser cutter, .38 Whiting machine carbine (not often carried), blaster (doesn't trust energy weapons), force knife, occasionally grenades eBarbara History teacher, highly intelligent, history of abusing pupils, rather inventively sadistic towards them. [Stats needed, pretty much as per book with some negative traits] Equipment: initially unarmed then takes Ian's revolver when Susan disarms him; acquires compact blaster, .32 pistol, neuronic whip eSusan Aka 'The Abomination' (Gallifrey doesn't approve of unauthorised and experimental fiddling with their own genes). Strong, agile and fast; implanted claws and fangs, ripsnake; Actually the least violent of the initial quartet (and the first to leave). That said if you annoy/scare/startle her you may end up with your intestines in a puddle on the ground... Awareness 4 Coordination 5 Ingenuity 6 Presence 3 Resolve 4 Strength 6 Athletics 2, Convince 2, Fighting 3, Knowledge 3, Marksman 4, Medicine 1, Science 4, Subterfuge 2, Technology 4, Transport 1 Alien, Attractive, FtTotU, Impulsive, Psychic, Lucky, Quick Reflexes, Sense of Direction, Natural Weapons (claws, poison injection fangs, ripsnake) Equipment: carries micro-stunner, compact blaster, enhanced knife; she had access to a blaster rifle, grenade launcher, staser pistol and grenades plus the TARDIS armoury. eSara Agent of the GOD 2, loyal to Chen's faction within the Confederation; joined the eDoctor after Chen was killed and the Master Plan failed. "Ruthless, hard, efficient, resourceful. And does exactly as ordered". Awareness 4 Coordination 4 Ingenuity 5 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 4 TL 8 Athletics 3, Convince 2 [Intimidate], Fighting 4, Knowledge 3, Marksman 4, Medicine 2, Science 4, Subterfuge 4, Technology 3, Transport 4 Attractive, Brave, Tough, Lucky, Quick Reflexes, Voice of Authority, By The Book, Obligation, Resourceful Pockets Equipment: sidearm (advanced disrupter), holdout blaster (x2), shimmer knife (x2), neural sap, scanner, medical kit, view-scope, mini-grenades (various types), hunter-seeker mini-missiles (x3), cutter/bonder, body armour (Armour 6); acquires an agoniser and a selection of drugs and poisons; dislikes firearms eVicki
An attractive young woman with a secret; she's a serial killer who enjoys manipulating those around her, for gain or amusement. She appears in her teens but is actually in her late 20s due to Prolong life extension treatment. While travelling on a C28 Earth transport her activities (a spot of theft and a murder) were discovered by some of the crew, so she killed them and engineered a crash landing (which killed a couple of dozen people); she manipulated the small group of survivors with a fabricated monster and a couple more murders. Then she joined the eDoctor; the universe is her mollusc...... Awareness 3 Coordination 4 Ingenuity 6 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 2 TL 7 Athletics 3, Convince 5, Craft 2, Fighting 2, Knowledge 4, Marksman 2, Medicine 2 [5], Science 4, Subterfuge 4, Technology 4, Transport 2. Attractive, Charming, Lucky, Quick Reflexes, Technically Adept, Resourceful Pockets, Impulsive, Phobia (heights) Equipment: holdout blaster, shimmer knife, concealed stunner, concealed injector, explosives (small amount), concealed contact stunner, medical kit, laser cutter, selection of drugs and poisons, roll-up scroll computer (with memento pictures and videos and a reference library), tool kit (emphasis on intrusion). eSteven A pilot officer for the Earth Empire who misses its fall due to being stuck on a primitive planet after a crash landing and a period in cryo-stasis. He joins the eDoctor as much from boredom as anything else; tends to be even more prone to resort to violence, especially against non-humanoids (he has the usual Imperial prejudices), than most of the Minions. Awareness 3 Coordination 5 Ingenuity 5 Presence 3 Resolve 4 Strength 4 TL 7 Athletics 3, Convince 2, Craft 2, Fighting 3, Knowledge 4, Marksman 4, Medicine 1, Science 1, Subterfuge 3, Technology 4, Transport 5 Brave, Charming, Quick Reflexes, By The Book, Code of Conduct, Experienced, Impulsive, Indomitable, Tough Equipment: (after recovering it) sidearm (blaster pistol, 4/8/12), knife, survival kit (food, water, shelter, light rifle, signal beacon...), medical kit, tool kit eLocusta Roman poisoner and assassin [Stats needed] 1 Though not in public of course; not if you know what's good for you 2 Galactic Operations Directorate
Next up will be the first half of the adventures.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 16, 2014 12:55:38 GMT
Part 2 - First eDoctor - adventures part one. 1. The Night they LefteSusan, enrolled in Cole Hill School, reacts instinctively and kills a teacher who attempts to molest her, then hides the corpsebadly. When this is discovered by one of her teachers (Barbara Wright) she decided to investigate her mysterious pupil, assisted by her colleague Ian Chesterton. The pair pursue eSusan to her home address and confront her 'grandfather'. Characteristically eIan pulls a gun, eSusan disarms him but before the eDoctor fries him, a police constable arrives and is instead toasted. So the eDoctor is forced to depart (TARDIS repairs incomplete) and gives them a choice "Come with me, or stay here for the authorities. And you know what that means". So they go. 2. The Tribe A brief trip to prehistoric Earth ends with several neolithic humans killed. Luckily for the Web of Time the tribe of Gum was due to be exterminated in a rockslide anyway. 3. The Dead Planet Arriving on a desolate planet the eDoctor remembers something abouta race of conquering cyborgs... Alas his memory is wrong and his attempt to exploit the peaceful (and rather timid) Dals fails and they have to escape their metallic city. Outside they encounter the evil, race-purity obsessed, Thaleks. - Someone should have paid more attention to his Galactic History studies.
The eDoctor assists the Thaleks in entering one of their wartime bunkers and recover advanced weapons. The adventure ends "with great slaughter". - Now the Dals and Thaleks know of space travel, aliens and time travel; they'll be back
- The eDoctor's knowledge is decidedly fallible and potentially inaccurate; this is not reassuring to his travelling companions.
4. Journey to Cathay Accidentally joining a caravan to Cathay the eDoctor plans to use Kublai Khan to establish a global empire, with him as the power behind the throne. Much intrigue, and use for the eDoctor's toxicological skills. The Great Khan is surprisingly resistant to hypnosis alas. 5. The Sea of Death On Marinus the TARDIS impounded and the party is forced to search for the circuit-keys to re-enable a mind influencing supercomputer. T he eDoctor is furious at being forced to serve Arbitan and exacts an unpleasant, and apocalyptic, revenge on the entire planet. - The eDoctor acquires the teleport bracelets and Somnar discs, the latter will prove useful in his mind-control
experiments
6. Aztecs
Blood sacrifice and god impersonation, what could go wrong? When the TARDIS lands in an Aztec tomb a little grave robbery by eBarbara leads to her being mistaken for a goddess Unfortunately the eDoctor managed to lose his TARDIS and has to plot to get access to it again, while he also plans a few changes to human history to shape it to his advantage. 7. Sensorites The travellers arrive on an Earth starship trapped the Sensorites, who also disable the TARDIS. The eDoctor stirs up internal dissent but faces trouble from a xenophobic Sensorite faction and is forced to use his skills with poisons to save lives. Including his own. 8. The French Revolution Stranded injured in Revolutionary France, the eDoctor has to decide wheter to dump his companions and leave or struggle to break them free. Unfortunately he's lost his TARDIS key inside and therefore needs to find them, well eSusan at least. But the chaos of the era has opportunities for conquest, even if at the cost of dealing with the psychopathic Robespierre and risking an encounter with Madame Guillotine. 9. World's End The party arrive on Earth, during the Thalek invasion in the mid 22nd century. The Thaleks have achieved space travel, and been forced from Skara by the Dals. Now they've found a cache of Osiran remenant technology, and use an Osiran wormhole to drastically shorten the trip from their home galaxy. Another piece of Osiran tech isolates the Sol system from the human colonies during the assault. They hope to tap the power of the God Engine and steal the planet Earth, creating a mobile base for themselves in Mutter's Spiral. They also demonstrate an unpleasant fondness for biological weapons and cybernetic zombie human servitors. Their acquired technology allows them to detect the TARDIS and trap it, forcing the eDoctor to abandon his initial plans for a rapid departure. He assists the human resistance forces, in an attempt to disable the Vortex Trap. Fortunately the Dals have followed their ancient enemies and assist the human colonies, and their Martian allies, in the war effort. Epic death and destruction. 10. The Rescue Fancying a little respite after their trip to Earth the travellers land on the primitive and idyllic planet Dido. There they find a crashed space ship and a besieged party of human survivors including Vicki, a cute, innocent teenage girl who's actually a mass murderer, manipulator, poisoner and bomb maker; an ideal Minion in fact. 11. The Romans Finally arriving somewhere he wanted to visit, just outside Rome in 64CE, the eDoctor commandeers a villa using a mix of force and hypnosis and prepared to implement an actual plan. Establishing a reputation as a wizard, he arranges to meet Nero, to demonstrate his 'pilum fulminata'. - Also a few other things; better crop rotation, a steam engine, the potato, wood-pulp paper, printing, Arabic numerals...
Unfortunately there are a few bumps on his road to an eternal Roman empire under his direction; incompetent minions and poor safety standards lead to a small fire in one of the workshops, which gets a bit out of hand. That night Nero, a paranoid sociopath and resistant to hypnosis, is at the eDoctor's commandeered villa when word of the fire arrives. A slight disagreement later and the villa is in flames and the travellers flee. However the eDoctor does acquire another Minion, Locusta, an attractive professional poisoner and assassin. - Which might bugger up history a bit
12. Kingdom The TARDIS is getting crowded... An attempt to fix the TARDIS takes it to a parallel Earth; one where Britain wasn't a Republic but a 'United Kingdom'(!) including part of Ireland, and a member of a European Community (!!!). The travellers encounter the Intrusion Countermeasures Group who are investigating an incursion by two factions of some oddly familiar cyborgs... - Who are not nearly as timid as their eWhoniverse counterparts.
eSusan is tired of travelling and wants some stability; plus she's not really interested in the whole 'conquering the universe' thing. She grabs a few thing from the TARDIS, leaves the eDoctor a note and disappears. The parachronal conjunction that'll allow them to return to their own universe doesn't leave them much time to search for her, so reluctantly the eDoctor leaves her behind - Reluctance not based on fondness, he's furious at being balked and frankly homicidal..
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 16, 2014 19:34:25 GMT
The Thaleks are humanoid Aryan types? That would be a twist, although since Nation intended them to be a pastiche on the Nazis, it fits rather well. And the Dals are... what? Humanlike Daleks akin to the ones in Children of the Revolution?
This is very cleverly done, warping the same stories into something dark and yet still keeping them recognizable. And a guest appearance from the Counter Measures team as well. That's a great idea, adding a 1960s element that wasn't a part of the true 1960s era of the show. Impressive!
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 16, 2014 19:47:49 GMT
Part 3 - First eDoctor - adventures part two. 13. The Crusaders Another attempt by the eDoctor to pull the strings of the mighty, this time a Saladin/Lionheart alliance via a hypnotised Joanna goes badly. Luckily for eIan he's reasonably familiar with a sword. 14. Space Museum Snared by a powerful Vortex Trap the eDoctor and company are trapped and fight their way out. eLocusta's skills come in useful. The annoyed and vengeful eDoctor helps start a revolution before leaving. And loots the museum of a few odds and ends... 15. Meddler The eDoctor, after accidentally landing in a useful spot for once,takes over a Dark Ages monastery using poison gas and mind control. He plans to use this as a base for some major changes in human history, with the aid of a box of mini-nukes. However, in a nearby wood another TARDIS materialises and a man in a tweed suit emerges. - The first appearance of Mortimus, a moderately interventionist renegade Time Lord, complete with tweed suit, pince nez and walking stick.
Aided by a couple of Companions he frustrates the eDoctor's meddling amidst lots of running around, fights with Saxons and Vikings and displays of anachronistic technology. eLocusta is killed, along with one of Mortimus's Companions. Both Time Lords wear revenge. - The eDoctor employs a staff weapon capable of firing energy bolts causing pain or unconsciousness, or death;
16. Galaxy 4 The eDoctor lands on a desolate planet to sulk, following his recent defeat. However the planet doomed by a dimensional rift (which disables his TARDIS) and so he 'befriends' the fascist Drahvins and communistic Rills in an attempt to escape. Which he manages, at the cost of both alien ships. - He acquires a cloning unit and starts a batch of blonde soldierettes of his own, future cannon fodder...
17. Troy The eDoctor masquerades as a god, badly, and his TARDIS is stolen.However he acquires Katarina as a slave. She doesn't last long, expended to save himself in... 18. The Master Plan The eDoctor hatches a complex plan involving Mavic Chen (Defense Coordinator of the Galactic Federation), the Thaleks and others to Take Over the Universe TM! Unfortunately for his plan Mortimus arrives and steals the Polybdenum core of the Vortex Disruptor and flees, by long range transmat, spaceship and TARDIS. A chase ensues, initially with the eDoctor locking the TARDISes together to follow, with a Thalek death squad supplementing his usual minions. Then with a stolen space ship, rendering the eDoctor's TARDIS useless until he scavenges parts from Mortimus's captured TARDIS. And finally by experimental interstellar transmat. - The Thaleks have limited time travel but do not have dimensionally transcendental time craft yet.
- The Dals also have time travel capacity and intervene
Finally, after brutally killing one of Mortimus's companions ("frying tonight") the eDoctor recovers the core. Much betrayal ensues (Chen has an ego almost as large as the eDoctor) and many deaths before the plan fails,complete with planetary destruction. eVicki and Katarina are both killed; a new minion, eSara joins the crew. 19. The Massacre Shoot-out in France. The eDoctor is unaware of his doppelganger but attempts to make use of the situation and nearly ends up dead. 20. The Ark Landing on a generation ship evacuating the destroyed Earth the eDoctor accidentally infects the human with a disease and is forced to find a cure (or have himself and his TARDIS dumped out an airlock). Deciding that a quick departure is a better idea the eDoctor tried to leave, only to find the ship's crude space-warp propulsion interferes with the TARDIS and it skips ahead several decades; a four-way struggle between human slaves, Monoids, the eDoctor and the natives of the destination planet ensues. - Hopefully humanity has a back-up plan...
21. The Gunfighters Shoot-out in the Wild West. 22. The War Machines The party return to Earth and encounter an attempt by the Republic's government to create robotic war machines and a controlling AI to use in the "Winter War" against the EuroFed. It goes terribly, but predictably, wrong. Naturally the eDoctor attempts to use the situation to his advantage. Finally the RBAF carry out an air strike on the P.O. Tower to stop WOTAN. 23. The SmugglersLanding in seventeenth century Cornwall the eDoctor becomes embroiled in a local smuggling ring while searching for an alien artefact he believes was found by the pirate Henry Avery. Underestimating the "primitives" the eDoctor is captured and finally rescued by eSara, whom he uses to save his own skin at the cost of her life. 24. The Ninth Planet Using some accurate foreknowledge acquired during his travels the eDoctor attempts an alliance with the Mondasian Cybermen to conquer Earth. Shocked by his willingness to betray them and the rest of humanity (and that he'd neglected to mention that the Republic wasn't going to last much longer), his minions rebel and attempt to assist the humans. A near TPK ensues and all three minions die; eSteven is shot by Cybermen, eIan is killed by eBarbara after he's partially Cyber-converted, the eDoctor is shot by eBarbara and regenerates, and she dies in the frozen Antarctic waste.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 17, 2014 11:50:36 GMT
Part 4 - Second eDoctor – Overview, gadgets and minions.
Personality.
The eDoctor's second incarnation is more manipulative and ruthless, better organised and efficient in his plans and lacking in the bombastic hubris of his predecessor. Initially alone, after the massacre of the Ninth Planet, he soon acquires some new minions. Awareness 4 Coordination 4 Ingenuity 7 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 2 Athletics 1, Convince 5, Fighting 2, Knowledge 4, Marksman 2, Medicine 5, Science 5, Subterfuge 5, Survival 1, Technology 5, Transport 2 Adversary (Dals, Thaleks, Mortimus, there's usually someone), Boffin, Charming, Eccentric, Feel the Turn of the Universe, Hypnosis, Impulsive, Indomitable, Insatiable Curiosity, Obsession (power), Psychic, Random Regenerator, Resourceful Pockets, Run for Your Life!, Selfish, Technically Adept, Time Lord (Experienced), Time Traveller (all), Vortex. Toys.His burner expands it's repertoire of unpleasant capabilities with a new setting that overloads the nervous system of victims (humanoid and related) and causes agonising and bone breaking spasms, almost always fatal. Poison case. Similar to a Victorian pocket escritoire, a small pocket case containing a selection of poisons and drugs. Doesn't generally bother with his predecessor's stick. Minions.eZoe Coldly logical,ambitious, devious; an almost equal companion; martial arts expert; frigid/asexual [stats to be finalised] Equipment: carries compact weapons, wrist blaster, gas spray, contact stunner;surprisingly good Knowledge of toxicology; skilled at unarmed combat (and Sneak Attacks); miscellaneous electronics (including intrusion and surveillance). Later acquires, and reprogrammes, a couple of 'pet' Cybermats, complete with poison fangs/sprays. Jamie
None too bright muscle, kept under hypnotic influence. Awareness 3 Coordination 4 Ingenuity3 Presence 4 Resolve 3 Strength 4 Athletics 2, Convince 2, Craft 2, Fighting 4, Knowledge 1, Marksman 2, Medicine 1, Science 1, Subterfuge 3, Survival 1, Technology 1, Transport 1 Attractive, Brave, Code of Conduct, Experienced, Face in the Crowd, Impulsive, Keen Senses, Technically Inept Jamie 2.0 Now with cybernetic enhancements. Awareness 3 Coordination 4 Ingenuity4 Presence 4 Resolve 4 Strength 7 Athletics 2, Convince 2, Craft 2, Fighting 4, Knowledge 1, Marksman 4,Medicine 1, Science 1, Subterfuge 3, Survival 1, Technology 2, Transport 1 Attractive, Brave, Code of Conduct, Cyborg, Experienced, Face in the Crowd, Fear Factor, Impulsive, Keen Senses, Technically Inept, Tough, Armour [5], Natural Weapons (fists, stun discharge, blade, blaster, flame jet...) ePolly A schemer and manipulator; uses her wiles (and poisons) to control those around her; planned to oust her boss and then manipulate his replacement; - Be careful accepting a cup of the coffee she's so eager to prepare...
Equipment: initially armed with .32 pistol, basic poisons (arsenic and other metals, industrial chemicals, cyanides) eVictoria A seductive manipulator, devious and skilled with poisons; the brains behind her father (whom she eventually killed) and Maxtible; very different to, and competitive with, eZoe. [stats to be finalised] Equipment: carries small weapons (derringers, small pistol,eventually a compact blaster); fond of sharpened hatpins (applied to heart,spine or eye, poisoned preferably) or blades; expert Knowledge of poisons of her home era and later broadens this. Kemel Victoria's none too bright,and not at all mute, slave Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity3 Presence 3 Resolve 4 Strength 5 Kemal 2.0Also upgraded with cybernetics. Awareness 3 Coordination 4 Ingenuity3 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 7 Athletics 5, Fighting 5, Knowledge 2, Marksman 3, Subterfuge 3, Survival 2, Technology 1, Transport 1 Brave, Tough, Devoted (Victoria, Major) eBen
Sailor the British Republican Navy, on the run following a black market scheme gone wrong, killed a couple of military police. He teamed up with ePolly, who was planning an office coup and in need of muscle; ePolly's boy-toy. [stats to be finalised] Equipment: initially armed with .38 Webley pistol, knife, quite skilled with explosives; eKatie The first minion, acquired on Vulcan. An ambitious colonial officer (Bragen's deputy) who was involved withthe wrong side of the conflict there; skilled in disguise (can pass as male), intrusion, surveillance. Awareness 4 Coordination 5 Ingenuity 6 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 3 Athletics 3, Convince 5, Fighting 4, Knowledge 4, Marksman 4, Medicine 2,Science 2, Subterfuge 5, Survival 3, Technology 3, Transport 2 Attractive, Brave, Face in the Crowd, Indomitable, Lucky, Quick Reflexes, Sense of Direction Equipment: starts with communicator, sidearm (early blaster), stun baton, knife, multi-tool, scanner, forensic kit, restraints, light body armour, surveillance gear, probably a backup weapon or two. Enemies.Martians Honourable cyborgs who escaped the destruction of their home planet by STL starship and settled on Mars. The eDoctor attempts to provoke war with between twenty-first century Earth and Mars Cybermen Various models. The chain of colonies spawned during the wanderings of Mondas haven't coalesced into a single group yet. Technologically late TL6/early TL7 but their spacecraft are limited due to the reliance on copied Osiran gravity manipulation technology. Dals Now rather annoyed at the Doctor... Their experiences with various aliens have caused them to created a dedicated military force (better armoured and fitted with a weapon as standard). They've also upgraded their travel machines to handle different environments. They are developing time travel technology apace. In their home galaxy they're a leading part of an anti-Dominator (and anti-Thalek, though that's a lower priority) alliance. Limited contact with humans due to the distance and the closure of the Osirian wormhole connecting their respective galaxies. Thaleks The Thaleks have been severely weakened by biological warfare, an experiment gone wrong (and in the future the unpleasantness after the eDoctor's Master Plan failed). They're also experimenting with time travel; along with better mind control techniques, duplication, mass cloning and humanoid robots while attempting to keep their slave labour driven empire together. Threatened by the Dominators. Dominators A rapidly expanding militaristic empire, albeit relatively low tech compared to the others. Drahvins Very blonde; a smallish and rather low tech sphere, but big on caste driven cloning. They're probably going to get absorbed by one of the more powerful groups.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 18, 2014 12:45:25 GMT
Part 5 - Second eDoctor – The Adventures, part one.1. Power Still recovering from his regeneration (and minionless) the eDoctor'sdamaged TARDIS travels only a short distance in time and space (decades andbillions of kilometres) to Vulcan, a human inhabitable satellite of the distanttrans-Neptunian gas giant/brown dwarf Decimus. - Vulcan is an important elementin the nascent human extra-solar explorations, supporting a FTL research basein deep space, beyond the heliopause, where experiments in hyperspace access can be carried out without the distortion caused by the Sun's gravity.
Venturing out, while his TARDIS regenerates from the damage done at the end of theNinth Planet, the eDoctor finds a crashed ship from Earthcarrying an Investigator (injured but alive) who 'recognises' the eDoctor as hissuperior - One Ramon Salamander, early in his career.
The Investigator tells the eDoctorwhat he knows, including about the recent discovery of a crashed alien starship,and gives him access codes to the computers. He's then murdered. The eDoctorimpersonates the Investigator and stirs up trouble, to cover his attempts to gain control of the Dal ship and it's manufacturing equipment. However his plans to create a small army of cyborgs loyal to him are ended when his meddling starts a small revolution... However the eDoctor does acquires his first Minion, eKatie a duplicitous securityofficer - Vulcan is not the 'tenth planet', in fact it's not a planet at all buta large, dense and volcanically active satellite of the gas giant Decimus, itself abrown dwarf of 60MJ orbiting about 8k AU from Sol.
2. HighlandersLanding in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden the eDoctor acquires a Minion, the none too bright and easily hypnotisedHighlander Jamie, while attempting to tamper with British history by controlling the Young Pretender. 3. AtlantisLanding on a volcanic rock near the Azores in 1967 the eDoctor teams up with a former British fascist scientist to rule the last remnantof Atlantis, under the eastern Atlantic Ocean. However some of his former employers are also nearby investigating the potential of an alliance with Atlantic to prop up the crumbling regime. - The eDoctor acquires two new Minions, ePolly and eBen; one an underestimated secretary to the leader of the SSD team, the other a sailor on the run.
4. Moonbase Jumping ahead a hundred years to escape the destruction of Atlantis (one of them anyway) the TARDIS lands on the moon and the party investigate the lunar weather control centre, where weather patterns on Earth are influenced by gravity pulses and a network of Earth orbit satellites. Together these have reversed the 'global heating' problems of earlier decades. Planning to use the Graviton for his own purposes the eDoctor and his minions find themselves arrested, suspected of poisoning members of the base's staff, and forced to prove their innocence. The contents of the eDoctor's poisons case not helping their protestations... Just in time the Cybermen take control of the base and, recognising the eDoctor from a previous encounter, plan to torture him and his minions for information and access to his TARDIS. However his minions save the day with some lateral thinking. 5. MacraLanding in a seemingly quiet and peaceful human colony the eDoctor immediately notices signs of general mind control efforts by the administration. Investigating he discovers the humans are being manipulated by the crab like Macra to extract a toxic gas needed for their life-cycle. After being imprisoned and escaping he's sufficiently irritated to end the problem by killing most of the administrators and causing toxic oxygen to be pumped into the gas mines. 6. ChameleonsThe eDoctor stumbles over the Chameleons plan to duplicate and replace humans in 1967 Britain, encounters the SSD (who impound his TARDIS), is saved and betrayed by ePolly, prevents the invasion, kills ePolly and leaves. All in less than a day. Meanwhile an antique shop owner with an impressive beard is watching him.... 7. Evil Victorian scientists Wakefield and Maxtible develop a crude form of time travel and accidentally tap into an experimental Dal time corridor. The Dals know that the eDoctor will be on Earth and manage to capture the TARDIS, planning to use it to capture the eDoctor. However Wakefield and Maxtible (and especially Wakefield's manipulative daughter eVictoria) are out for themselves and the eDoctor manages to convince the peaceable Dals (who aren't familiar with his new appearance and puzzled by his efforts to stop the Chameleons, as witnessed by Maxtible) that he's not the Evil Doctor. Pretending to aid them in their plan to civilise the Thaleks, he conducts experiments on Thalek prisoners and develops a mind control technique that enables him to turn some of the Dals evil! However with so many factions in play it ends disastrously. Goodbye eBen (expended to distract the Cybermen), hallo eVictoria and Kemal (not evil, just not very bright). 8. The Tombs The eDoctor and company attempt to open the tombs of the Cybermen on Telos and encounter an Earth expedition with a Dark Secret. Given the four factions in play it's no surprise that the plans interfere with each other and it ends with great slaughter. - The Tombs aren't just closed but demolished
- The eDoctor continues his fascination with the potential for cybernetic augmentation of his minions
9. Tibet
The TARDIS lands in 1938 Tibet, after the eDoctor detects an alien signal. There they encounter Edward Travers, sole survivor of an expedition dispatched by the new government to examine routes between British India and the new Russian. Also in the region are the robotic servitors of the Great Intelligence, a disembodied entity that survived the end of the previous universe which wants the eDoctor's body and TARDIS. 10. The Chase The Dals have become sufficiently irritated by the eDoctor's actions (and being played for fools) that one faction finally attempt to hunt his down, using the experimental Vortex Capsule. Mortimus also appears, causing further confusion. Finally the Dals 'kill' a duplicate eDoctor.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 19, 2014 12:27:56 GMT
Part 6 - Second eDoctor – The Adventures, part two.11. Salamander Arriving on mid-twenty first century Earth the eDoctor attempts to use his resemblance to Ramon Salamander, now Secretary General of the World League to take over the planet.Unfortunately matters are complicated by Salamander's resistance to his hypnosis, several hidden plans the eDoctor doesn't know about and the existence of a group already planning to stop Salamander. 12. Web The eDoctor returns to 1960's Earth, not entirely voluntarily as the Great Intelligence snares his TARDIS and drags it and it's occupants there. He forms an uneasy alliance with a detachment of the Special Service Directorate of the RSF (commanded by Brigade Under-Leader Lethbridge-Stewart and assisted by Professor Edward Travers) who are attempting to deal with an extra-dimensional incursion. 13. Deep FuryAfter-effects from the Great Intelligence's influence cause the TARDIS to reappear only a few months ahead in time and a few hundred kilometres away in space at an experimental network of gas drilling rigs off the Norfolk coast. Using the pass provided by Lethbridge-Stewart the eDoctor infiltrated the project while the TARDIS resets its systems. There he and his minions encounter a form of sea-weed with mutagenic and mind influencing properties. 14. The WheelThe still damaged TARDIS materialises on an abandoned space-transport close to The Wheel, and early human station. - In the twenty first century The Wheel is one of the triumphs of humanity's move into space. Originally a Standford Torus design that would rotate to simulate internal gravity it was refitted with artificial gravity technology and force field defenses. It's in solar orbit between Venus and Earth.
Forced to abandon the TARDIS due to toxic fumes the eDoctor and crew take refuge in the transport and are rescued by crew from The Wheel. There they stumble over a Cyberman plot to use The Wheel as a base for attacks on Earth's space infrastructure, using fore-knowledge acquired on the Moon the eDoctor frustrates their plan in order to return to his TARDIS. He also acquires a new minion, eZoe, the emotionally repressed product of a new system of education. 15. DominatorsNeeding a rest the eDoctor successfully navigates the TARDIS to the quiet planet Dulkis. Just in time to get mixed up in an plan by the crew of Dominator scout ship to destroy the planet in order to create a black hole to use as a power source. 16. Invasion Again the eDoctor navigates his TARDIS successfully and arrives near Earth in 1968, where his orbiting TARDIS is attacked and damaged. Materialising on Earth he seeks revenge, and assistance inrepairs, thus becoming embroiled in a plan of the Cybermen. When the TARDIS is then stolen, he meets with Lethbridge-Stewart, now a Brigade Leader, and the RSF-SSD who are also investigating. Together they discover there's a faction within the Republican government who have an uneasy) deal with the Cybermen against the EuroFed threat. - the SSD acquire some Cybertechnology, weapons, ships, cybernetic; they begin planning for cybernetic enhancement of some of their troops
- the eDoctor also acquires a few items of Cybertechnology and upgrades a couple of minions; enter Jamie 2.0 and Kemal 2.0, 'better', stronger, faster
17. The KrotonsArriving on a planet too insignificant to even have a name, the TARDIS crew find a stray human colony being exploited by a group of crystalline Krotons as a source of psionic energy. 18. Seeds of WarIn the run up to the Thousand Day War in the early twenty-second century the eDoctor attempts to stir up a war between Earth and Mars by assisting a xenophobic Martian faction to launch a pre-emptive strike on Earth with biological weapons. However an old enemy, the meddling time lord Mortimus, is nearby and frustrates the plan. 19. Space PiratesFleeing Mortimus the eDoctor's TARDIS materialises on a communications relay beacon in the mid 23rd century and becomes embroiled in a series of thefts of equipment from the beacon network. When the TARDIS is lost in the destruction of a beacon and swept up by the beacon pirates, the eDoctor and his minions hijack a mining scout-ship to flee the EarthGov forces and the pirates. Forced to solve the question of who is behind the piracy in order to recover his TARDIS the eDoctor must infiltrate a number of dubious planets and solve the conspiracy behind the thefts. 20. War Games Receiving a message from another renegade Time Lord, the eDoctor agrees to join a plan for universal domination, assisted somewhat by eZoe and eVictoria (and their boy-toys). He and the War Lord teams up with the 'War Lords' to amass an army from across space and time. The eDoctor provides the War Lords with TL9 technology, time/space portals derived from a mix of Dal and Gallifreyan technology. However the "accidental" arrival of Mortimus sends the plan awry as he discovers what's going on and intervenes. He investigates and discovering the scope of the plan, summons Gallifreyan assistance. The eDoctor escapes (barely) with his TARDIS severely damaged, and is forced to regenerate after being shot by Mortimus (who's killed by eZoe). The War Lord is apparently killed and the War Lords trapped in a time loop. - Think Blake's 7 finale...
The crippled TARDIS makes one final trip and lands......
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 20, 2014 12:07:47 GMT
Part 7 – Third eDoctor - overview, minions and gadgets.Overview.Following the failure of his previous plan the eDoctor is forced to regenerate and becomes stuck in early 1970s Britain thanks to a badly damaged TARDIS. Most of the stories are Earthbound, eventually the eDoctor partially fixes the TARDIS and manages some limited journeys. Personality.Arrogant and aristocratic, blends in quite well to the Establishment society of early seventies Britain. Toys.The stick and pocket watch return; the former now includes a continuous beam laser, useful for cutting through barriers, or lopping off extremities if the eDoctor is bored, impatient or irritated. On lower intensity it can be used for leaving messages on walls (or again people who irritate him) Mk III Burner, now with 'detonate body' mode. Messy but useful for inspiring the troops... Background.No exile of course. Stranded on Earth following the failure of his alliance with the War Lords. The shoot-out in the TARDIS (collateral damage) and the strain of escaping the Time Lords attempt to capture both him and the War Lord. Lands on Earth and is picked up by the SSD,he negotiates a (strained) alliance with the RSF, also uses the threat of self-destructing his TARDIS. Why Britain? The ideal target/bridgehead for alien invaders, isolated and technologically rather backward with an autocratic government (perfect for decapitation); it's neighbours are used to periodic violence, and thus battles against aliens may not garner the scrutiny they should. By the later '60s Britain and the Republic are on their last legs, and this shows; little international trade (lack of anything desired by others), inefficient manufacturing (and lack of investment), no financial sector, few allies The World.- The European Federation spans most of the continent, from Ukrania to Portugal, Sweden to Southern Italy (the Italian Civil War ended in a split) and is the major world power; quite tightly integrated with a common currency and having abolished most passport and customs controls.
- Internal EuroFed politics are complicated; the Franco-German axis has its strain and the French/German/Spanish block that led the fledging alliance in the Eastern War no longer dominates the Federation. Indeed many wonder if the multiple poles within the group can stay together in the long term.
- The European Research Organisation (EuRO) was originally a coordinating body for scientific research and Federation wide projects (such as Antarctic, Space and Undersea exploration). It has a Directorate specialising in unusual threats that'll eventually be merged into LoNIG.
- Indi ais a republic, after a messy British disengagement, with the Princely States forcibly integrated; on the plus side Muslim/Hindu relations are quite good (common enemy) and the nascent Indian Federation is doing quite well, without partition.
- Japan isn't interested in Britain any longer, and is rather busy with the running sore that isthe occupation of parts of China; furthermore the new generation is interested in change and reacting against the militaristic society. It's neighbours (India, Australia and Iran mainly) are keeping a war eye on Japan.
- Australia is modernising, and hence wants to distance itself from the BR and its past.
- TheNorth American Federation is emerging as a major player, dominated by the Canadian/Californian axis
- No UN (obviously); the League of Nations (formed after the abortive Great War of1914-15) is still going; member states treat it as a useful forum for debate and deal making. It has a covert special group dedicated to outré threats (LoNIG).
- The writing is on the wall for Britain and the smarter inhabitants see it; there's a steady trickle of people with
skills and talent leaving, illegally of course. Clashes between the RBN and EuroNav over refugee boats are moderately common. [Think 1990 the series]
- EuroFed especially keep an eye on Britain; cable taps, ElInt, satellites, overflights (too high and fast for the obsolete RBAF interceptors to catch) and agents (there's a fair amount of smuggling).
- The 'Winter War' as the struggle between Briton, it's few allies and, well, prettymuch everyone else, is called is a major ongoing event; both sides are eager for an advantage and willing to take risks.
- An unexpected phenomena in in Europe mainly was the rise in popularity of Esperanto as a second (or third, or fourth...) language, taking a lot of people (including governments) by surprise; generally this is considered a Good Thing, further increasing cohesion. By 1970 even major films have an Esperanto release.Of course there are conspiracy theories about the Esperanto Institute, painting it as some sinister body directing events around he world, but they're just nonsense of course...
- Imperial Iran is a significant player, a regional power with global influence, that dominates the Persian Gulf.
- South America, with out meddling from the north, is becoming more unified and developed. Currently it's dominated by a EuroFed aligned Brazil and a more neutral Argentine-Chilean block.
- Russia remains split, a consequence of the Eastern War, and surrounded by none too friendly neighbours allied to, or members of, EuroFed.
General Themes. - Recurring encounters with EuRO andLoNIG.
- The eDoctor gets roped in to participate in numerous scientific programmes in Britain as an advisor.
- No-one can be trusted.
- Various attempt to develop new energy/food/material sources, sometime involving alien technology, and often risky.
- Occasional use of nuclear or chemical weapons to deal with alien threats; partially thisis a holdover from the Eastern War where a dozen or so were used (There's a general consideration of nuclear weapons as tactical problem solvers rather than citybusters). Chemical weapons also far more accepted (also used extensively against the 'Russian Horses').
- Social clashes between the young, encouraged by a degree of liberalisation; Britain swings a decade late and with far more caution.
- Faction fighting within the BR government in endemic and dangerous.
- On the European side of the water there's a certain air of self-satisfied complacency,a general feeling that things are going the Right Way and that even those irritating Britons will eventually be encompassed by the spread of modernsocial democracy, after all it worked in Russia and America didn't it?
- Britain is even more wedded to Imperial (i.e. non-decimal and non-metric) currency and units than historically; the half-crown and gill live on.
Minions.eShaw: Platoon Leader Elizabeth Shaw of the Special Services Directorate; an intelligent, controlled,ambitious and, manipulative woman. Awareness 3 Coordination 4 Ingenuity 4 Presence 4 Resolve 4 Strength 3 Athletics 2, Convince 4, Fighting 2, Knowledge 4, Marksman 3, Medicine 2,Science 3, Subterfuge 2, Survival 2, Technology 4, Transport 2 Attractive, Brave, Friends, Quick Reflexes, Indomitable, Military Rank,Obligation, Tough, Unadventurous, Voice of Authority Gear: pistol (.38 Webley, 2/5/7, 9rds) or (rarely) automatic rifle (.285Enfield-47, 3/7/10, 30rds) eJo Josephine Grant isn't military, she's the niece of a cabinet minister who foists his none too bright relative off on the SSD. In fact she's far more intelligent that she lets on and was posted to the SSD to monitor it for her uncle's faction in the government. However she sees an opportunity to servce her own interests. Conniving, sadistic and lecherous; uses and dumps men (and possibly women);expert, and enthusiastic interrogation specialist; "a true artist with the rubber truncheon" as Lethbridge-Stewart admiringly describes her. She specialises in interrogations of witnesses to alien activity, even when not really necessary. She's also been known to ensure that those who annoy her are 'killed in action'. Awareness 3 Coordination 4 Ingenuity 4 Presence 5 Resolve 4 Strength 2 Athletics 2, Convince 5, Fighting 3, Knowledge 3, Marksman 3, Medicine 1[4], Science 2, Subterfuge 5, Technology 2, Transport 1 Attractive, Quick Reflexes, Run for your Life, Escapology, ResourcefulPockets, Selfish Gear: many rings (often with gadgets such as lockpicks, wire, string saw, garotte, poisons [injected, sprayed or dropped); one or two small handguns[.32, 2/4/6, or .25, 1/3/4], several knives or spikes (boot, arm, thigh etcetera). Her bag holds her 'kit' (scalpels, pliers, needles, drugs...), laser cutter (acquired on her travels), compact blaster [unless she's got it on her person; 3/6/9, ditto], a pistol [.32 or .38], rubber truncheon, gas spray,possibly a couple of grenades and is also booby trapped (poison needle, gas or electric shock depending). Mooks and Minions - The Special Services Directorate. Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart Section Leader Benton (Section UnderLeader in Invasion) Platoon Leader Shaw (later promoted) [scientific support] Company Leader Yates Section Leader Osgood [technical] Section UnderLeader Bell [admin] Section UnderLeader Campbell [supply] Section Leader Hart Company Leader Hawkins Company Leader Munro Group Leader Thatcher; the head of the SSD, rarely seen and politically active Company Leader Turner heads the' Broadsword' urban plainclothes units Batallion Under-leader Walton heads assault forces High turnover rate. Some have had experimental cybernetic 'augmentation'. - Between them eGrant and eShaw soon effectively run the SSD, with a combination of organisational efficiency and manipulation of Lethbridge-Stewart. And fear of course.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 22, 2014 12:32:23 GMT
Part 8 - Third eDoctor – The Adventures, part one.1. Spearhead Invading Autons seek to take over the British Republic government as a foothold for a general invasion of Earth and not everyone inside said government opposed this plan. Lethbridge-Stewart encounters a familiar red box and an unfamiliar face while investigating some odd meteorites. He and the eDoctor make a bargain. The invasion itself is relatively covert, with duplication and infiltration of replicants, and control of plastics production, rather than overt conquest (which would probably trigger external intervention). 2. The Rise of Reptilians An experimental fusion reactor could mean plentiful, desperately needed, energy; however there are complications... Lots of complications; European spies, something nasty in the caves, a couple of government factions vying for control and more. initially uninterested the eDoctor is persuaded to assist with the investigation of strange energy losses and finds himself trying to cure a plague (with his TARDIS in safe custody). In the ends the plague is defeated (but some infected sent for experimentation, you never know when a virulent biological weapon might come in handy), the eDoctor gassing the Reptilians and them activating their lair's self-destruct. EuRO learn of the Reptilians and start looking for enclaves in their territory 3. Inferno A deep drilling project has produced sample of a useful material ('Crimson Hermes') and potentially may led to easy geothermal power production (and possibly an anti-EF weapon). The drilling is being assisted by some unofficial aid from a North American corporation, something the Britons are eager to extend. - Crimson Hermes is of interest to numerous groups; it's got demonstrated
super-conductive properties, a huge energy capacity (useful for building grenade sized nukes)and interesting plasma containment properties (useful in fusion and also RADAR stealth). It's the MacGuffin everyone wants.
The eDoctor isn't particularly interested and continues to use the project's facilities to try to repair his TARDIS and escape from Earth, this goes (predictably) wrong when a power surge activates some systems. The strange mineral is residue from a alien vessel, deep within the Earth and the project leader, Dr. Stahlman has been assimilated by nanotech from the vessel and is pushing drilling dangerously fast. Meanwhile in an adjacent parallel universe, eDoctor 3 meets Doctor 3 (working for URIC) and finds himself fighting off possessed workers while trying to get home. 4. The Ambassadors A cabal of senior BR military figures seeks to use the threat of an alien invasion to take over the Republic, and use the aliens to wage a war against the EuroFed. Much internal BR politics, running around and groups shooting at each other. 5. Return of the Autons They're back, using information from their previous attempt and infiltration pods. The basic Nestene plan is to start a civil war and take over in the confusion. Not exactly original but workable. The eDoctor finds a new aide foisted on him, the arrival of eJo who's been sent by BR factions to monitor Lethbridge-Stewart and his 'tame alien', following the faction fight that resulted from their last outing. The eDoctor attempts to bargain with the Nestene Consciousness, offering them Earth; luckily for him the SSD don't learn of his attempted treachery. Lethbridge-Stewart prefers airstrikes and napalm to talking. 6. Mindsuck.The SSD is running a test programme on an experimental mind control device at Stagmoor prison. The eDoctor is sent along to monitor it and report on it's potential usefulness. - The ability to easily re-programme dissidents would be very useful.
In the background is an international conference with the BR, Japanese Empire, North American Confederation, EuroFed, Chinese Republic, Russian Confederation and others attempting to calm tensions. The alien trapped in the machine has other plans; there's a prison break and 'crowd control' RSF style. Meanwhile in the background is a striking man with a goatee. 7. Axos An alien race contacts the BR and offers aid and an alliance, the government is eager but the eDoctor has other plans... Which are basically to let them assimilate Britain (he knows about Axos) in exchange for assistance; he'll even offer time travel to them and point them at Gallifrey. Alas faction fights within the government, and some clandestine tampering by Koschei, frustrate both his plan and that of Axos. 8. Colony The eDoctor experiments using Axon parts to repair his TARDIS, and it works! He and eJo visit a space colony in the twenty second century, in the years preceding the Thalek invasion. Discovering a long dormant Doomsday Weapon he tries to use it but intervention from Koschei (who's been warned by the Time Lords) frustrates him. The Fast Return Switch gets the eDoctor and eJo back to Earth. - This is the first direct confrontation between Koschei and the eDoctor
9. Dæmon Back in England Koschei sets a trap for the eDoctor, faking alien/psionic activity to attract the SSD, but fails to kill him as the eDoctor sacrifices mook after mook. 10. Thaleks Desperate human troops, from an alternate future where the Thalek Invasion was a success, travel back in time to stop the events that led to the success of the invasion. Of course a paradox is created, and fixed when Koschei intervenes. The Dals also appear, intercepting the crude Thalek time corridor, and a multi-sided battle erupts in Wiltshire between warrior Dals, Thalek troops and cybernetically controlled Z-men, future humans and SSD forces but the final explosion leaves few survivors. - The SSD acquire a stock of weapons from the future but are unable to replicate them
11. Peladon The eDoctor uses parts from the Thalek/resistance time machines to temporarily fix the TARDIS and ends up on thirty-first century Peladon. - He was aiming at a more advanced planet to properly repair the TARDIS but arrives on a primitive rockball.
eJo impersonates royalty from the backward planet Earth and interferes with the accession talks surrounding Peladon's request for entry into the Galactic Federation, however she's not the only one with plans. 12. Reptilians II A visit to the seaside to investigate mysterious incidents at coastal defense bases finds some amphibious Reptilians and EuRO involved. An old Sea Fort converted into RADAR facility has been taken over as a Reptilian base, and EuRO seems to know a lot of what the SSD does. Much naval action and mole-hunting. OK, 200 views and few comments. Should I continue with this or drop it?
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Post by da professor on Nov 22, 2014 14:20:13 GMT
By all means continue. The paucity of comments may be no more than reluctance to interrupt the flow.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 22, 2014 14:35:54 GMT
By all means continue. The paucity of comments may be no more than reluctance to interrupt the flow. OK then. I'll reformat and post the next part (the second have of the third eDoctor's adventures, including CyberBrig and the nuking of Wales)) later today if I can. If anyone has questions feel free to ask (I've a fairly detailed background worked out for the alternate Earth) or suggestions for the next revision (this version is based on my original posts to thereviewer with ongoing additions).
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 22, 2014 15:27:48 GMT
Actually thanks to some delays in meeting a friend here it is. Part 9 - Third eDoctor – The Adventures, part two.13. MutantsAnother round of botched TARDIS repairs take the eDoctor, eJo, and first time traveller eShaw, to a human orbital station near the end of the Terran Empire. eShaw hits it off with the Marshal, they have similar ideas about dealing with rebellion and the eDoctor assists in an act of genocide. 14. TOMITT A British government research project involving time travel is going well and the eDoctor wants to gain access. to it. TOMITT uses recovered alien parts (Chrono-crystals) found in the nineteenth century to manage crude temporal effects. Worried by these development Koschei allies with LoNIG intervene. - Koschei starts working for LoNIG in a consultative role.
15. Frontier Mixing scavenged TOMITT parts and the TARDIS the eDoctor and eJo travel into the early Earth Empire period where the eDoctor, his TARDIS impounded by Thaleks, foments trouble with the Draconians as part of a Thalek plan. Meanwhile Koschei has tracked the eDoctor's TARDIS and frantically tries to stop the warmongering plans. 16. Planet of the ThaleksAfter the failure of his alliance with the Thaleks the eDoctor must travel to a planet Spiridon, housing Thalek experimental projects, to recover his TARDIS. there the Thaleks are experimenting with a rapid cloning system allowing them to create armies in weeks, time corridors and other advancements. The Dals also turn up. 17. Green Death Back 'home' (again thanks to the FRS) the eDoctor visits a secret research centre in deepest Wales and encounters one of the RSF's nastier biological experiments in induced mutations and an experiment in Artificial Intelligence, constructed using recovered elements from WOTAN. After infective mutations escape and begin spreading to a local village Lethbridge-Stewart (newly returned to active duty with a replacement eye and arm after his injuries in battling the Thaleks) finally gets to use a nuke ("It's only Wales, no-one cares. At least no-one I care about cares".) 18. Sontaren The eDoctor investigates mysterious disappearances of material and scientists at a secure work facility for unreliable researchers (safe from the prospect of emigration). Of course he's only really interested in acquiring Sontaren time technology... He modifies the TARDIS to ride the osmic beam to the past, creating a chronon signature that worries Koschei, who follows in his TARDIS with LoNIG group to assist. In the middle ages there's a multi-sides fight involving them, the eDoctor, the Sontaren scout Lynx and his local allies, Munro and the RSF, and a local landowner and his troops. 19. Dinosaurs The eDoctor is under a cloud, nasty rumours about his reliability surround him like a cloud following that business in the Dark Ages. Meanwhile a RSF research unit attempts to combine Sontaren osmic tech and the remains of TOMITT to allow reliable travel to the past, with the intention of modifying history. To no-one's surprise it goes wrong. London is evacuated and the SSD go dino-hunting. The eDoctor redeems himself by reversing the effects but the effects of the time manipulation will propagate around London, into the past and future. 20. Plague Another one of the eDoctor's escape attempts goes wrong-ish. This time he, eJo and a squad of SSD mooks arrive on a distant planet and encounter humans (mid twenty-sixth century variety) and Thaleks seeking plant material on the jungle planet Exillon to produce a plague cure. - The Thaleks prepared and brought firearms, explosives and poison gas to control the locals
They also attempt to intimidate the eDoctor by messily killing a minion; this doesn't work... The Thaleks originally created the plague but it got out of control and now effects them. Benton is promoted to Platoon Under-Leader as the sole survivor. Lethbridge-Stewart is irritated by the wastage (and the paperwork) so he doesn't plan to repeat the idea of an escort for the eDoctor... 21. SpidersA British experimental programme investigating psionics is experiencing problems, including mysterious disappearances (and not the usual RSF kind of disappearances) and insanity. Giant, interplanetary teleporting, spiders feature... 22. Return to Peladon Will psi-active alien blue crystals help fix the TARDIS's navigational systems? Nope, back to a familiar primitive rockball. Alas the eDoctor's previous meddling hasn't been forgotten, forcing him on the run in the mines, where he encounters some aliens with an agenda of their own. eJo flirts with a reptile, and several humans, eventually almost becomes Queen of Peladon. However his ambitions are frustrated by the arrival of Federation troops in force and she and the eDoctor flee back to Earth. 23. RobotsAfter returning to Earth the eDoctor and minions are sent to audit another government research project; this one is going suspiciously well... Robotic war machines intended to police those hard to reach urban areas (like the restive bits of Scotland's cities). Meanwhile internal BR politics heat up and one faction attempt a coup, using those experimental robotic war machines.... Lethbridge-Stewartis in his element, arresting people and having them shot, tanks, air-strikes and more. Then eShaw makes her move and shoots him. The SSD experiences a certain amount of unnatural wastage in personnel. 24. Alpha The ancient Time Lord Alpha, long ago stranded in negative matter universe following some problematic stellar engineering, attempts an escape and is drawn to Earth by signals from his Hand. The eDoctor attempts to tap his power in the guise of helping him. - Alpha is attracted by the echo of the Hand, actually moved (by a later eDoctor incarnation perhaps?)
Lots of betrayals, and a stand off between the eDoctor and Koschei. Battalion Leader Shaw is still acting commander (replacements seems very accident prone for some reason) and is busy with a little house cleaning. The tension between eShaw and eJo comes to a head. Finally, his TARDIS restored to normal working again, the eDoctor leaves the ruins of the SSD headquarters, with eJo, to conquer the universe. He sardonically tells eShaw he won't bother sending her a xmas card; she responds by shooting him in the back and is in turn shot by eJo. The seriously wounded eDoctor stumbles into the TARDIS and starts to regenerate; eShaw is only slightly wounded also survives. For the moment... Epilogue.Of course as the eDoctor (and eJo) know the Republic will end soon, hence her departure with the eDoctor. The violence in Glasgow and Aberdeen spreads, and the Revolution begins in earnest a month later; by xmas the old Republic has been overthrown. eShaw dies in the lethal chamber along with many other RSF officers.
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 22, 2014 15:57:49 GMT
OK, 200 views and few comments. Should I continue with this or drop it? Quite a few of those 200 views were mine. (Nice to see the return of the United Races Intelligence Command. "Thactus, if your contraption doesn't work, you're fired". "If my contraption does not work, unemployment will be the least of my worries"). I haven't been commenting because I've been too busy taking notes, but for pity's sake don't stop now. I'd love to see your take on the dark mirror of the fourth Doctor. Leela would make a perfect minion for him. As for an eRomana, the mind boggles. The Master and the Rani's relationship would be almost harmonious in comparison. And give us an eK9, I dare you
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 22, 2014 17:54:08 GMT
OK, 200 views and few comments. Should I continue with this or drop it? Quite a few of those 200 views were mine. (Nice to see the return of the United Races Intelligence Command. "Thactus, if your contraption doesn't work, you're fired". "If my contraption does not work, unemployment will be the least of my worries"). I haven't been commenting because I've been too busy taking notes, but for pity's sake don't stop now. I'd love to see your take on the dark mirror of the fourth Doctor. Leela would make a perfect minion for him. As for an eRomana, the mind boggles. The Master and the Rani's relationship would be almost harmonious in comparison. And give us an eK9, I dare you OK then. Ah the fourth eDoctor, that's where thing start to really diverge from the canon. eRomana will appear, in fact she's one of my favourite characters (along with ePeri) and appears with later eDoctors. The fourth eDoctor is also longer, with 40 adventures. I'm glad you caught the URIC reference, I really liked that plotline in the comic.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 23, 2014 20:53:51 GMT
Part 10 - Fourth eDoctor – Overview, gadgets and minions.Personality.Significantly changed from his previous incarnation; less organised and megalomaniacal, more chaotic and impulsive. Has a taste for death and destruction for it's own sake. Chaotic Neutral/Evil. He's as likely to toss a coin to decide who to aid as think it out, and thenlaugh and attack both sides Physically he's bigger, and far stronger, than before with a taste for personal violence. Gear.Still carries th 'burner' but uses it less, prefers to improvise or do hiskilling personally. Technix Mk3 is used more often, with the usual settings; stun, pain and cut offextremity He also has a bag of poisoned jelly babies, colour coded for knockout, irritant, quick or slowacting poison Minions.eLeela A violent, and borderline psychotic, warrior from a primitive culture, a degenerated human colonisation effort. Has a taste for inflicting pain; fond of knives and some of the interesting toxins of her homeworld, including the Janis thorn [Stats needed] eSJ an ambitious and amoral journalist in post-Revolution Britain (~1982) Awareness 4 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 4 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 2 Athletics 2, Convince 4, Craft 1, Fighting 2, Knowledge 3, Marksman 3, Medicine1, Science 1, Subterfuge 4, Survival 1, Technology 2, Transport 2 Attractive, Brave, Friends, Insatiable Curiousity, Run for you Life, Selfish Gear: pistol, notebook, camera eHarry a former RBN/RSF officer wanted for crimes under the Republic, involvement in medical experiments on dissidents including organ harvesting Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 4 Presence 3 Resolve 4 Strength 3 Athletics 2, Convince 1, Craft 0, Fighting 3, Knowledge 2, Marksman 3, Medicine4, Science 2, Subterfuge 3, Survival 2, Technology 2, Transport 2 Brave, Clumsy, Face in the Crowd, Lucky, Tough, Unadventurous, Wanted Gear: pistol, medical kit, false identity papers 'Fang' after encountering the original,the eDoctor is inspired to construct his own robot dog; a superior model capable of limited vertical levitation and all terrain movement; armed with a disrupter and equipped with various gadgets (printer, small tractor beam, computer interface, nasal manipulator, light source, scanner,self-destruct...) Awareness 3 Coordination 2 Ingenuity 7 Presence 1 Resolve 4 Strength 3 Athletics 1, Convince 1, Craft 0, Fighting 1, Knowledge 6, Marksman 2, Medicine3, Science 5, Subterfuge 1, Survival 1, Technology 6, Transport 2 Boffin, Five Rounds Rapid, Natural Weapons, Photographic Memory, Robot [Gadget Traits: Open/Close, Scan. Restriction: Stairs], Technically Adept, Vortex,Obligation (Major), Slow (Minor) Equipment: fully sealed and waterproof casing Polly inspired by Fang and the Polyphase Aviatron eRomana constructed her own pet robot; a flying robotic hawk; armed with a disrupter and optional grenades; acts as a scout/strike drone; not as all round useful as a K9 but faster and more suited to aerial scouting. eRomana has a remote datalink and control device via which she can see through Polly's 'eyes' and give orders. eNyder former Dalan Elite security chief;cunning and devious, sneaky and manipulative Awareness 4 Coordination 4 Ingenuity 5 Presence 4 Resolve 4 Strength 3 Athletics 2, Convince 4, Craft 4, Fighting 3, Knowledge 3, Marksman 3, Medicine2[6], Science 2, Subterfuge 5, Survival 3, Technology 4, Transport 3 Quick Reflexes, Indomitable, Military Rank, Obligation, Voice of Authority Gear: pistol (10.2mm Kaltan, 3/6/9, 11rds or 7.5mm Rokeller, 2/4/6, 9rds) or rifle (8.3mm semi-automatic Elting, 3/7/10, 12rds or 6.2mm KT-11 assault rifle,3/6/9, 40rds); truncheons (wood, metal, rubber, electrical), knife; probably more if he had time to pack; acquires more advanced weapons eRomana I an icy manipulator from Gallifrey with a plan fro universal domination Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 9 Presence 5 Resolve 5 Strength 2 Athletics 2, Convince 2, Craft 2, Fighting 1, Knowledge 5, Marksman 2, Medicine2, Science 5, Subterfuge 2, Survival 0, Technology 5, Transport 2 Attractive, Arrogant, Bio-Rhythmic Control, Boffin, Doctorates [Temporal Physics and Psychology], Feel the Turn of the Universe, Psychic, Technically Adept, Time Lord, Voice of Authority, Vortex, Cloistered, Distinctive,Sesquipedalian, Wanted [Minor] Gear: staser pistol (x2), pain wand, laser wand, Technix Mk4, personal energy shield, small tool and medical kits eRomana II a cute, bubbly, flirty psychopath who'll smile while she carves you up. "Twas the women, not the warriors, turnedt hose stark enthusiasts pale" Awareness 4 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 9 Presence 5 Resolve 5 Strength 2 Athletics 3, Convince 4, Craft 3, Fighting 1, Knowledge 5, Marksman 2, Medicine2, Science 5, Subterfuge 3, Survival 1, Technology 5, Transport 3 Attractive, Bio-Rhythmic Control, Boffin, Doctorates [Temporal Physics and Psychology], Feel the Turn of the Universe, Insatiable Curiousity, Psychic,Technically Adept, Time Lord, Voice of Authority, Vortex, Cloistered,Distinctive, Wanted [Minor] Gear: staser pistol, pain wand, Burner II, holdout blaster, laser wand, plasma knife, Technix IV, personal energy shield, small tool and medical kits,drug/poison kit, a few compact grenades eNyssa 'the destroyer of Traken'; serious daddy issues and biochemical expertise are a dangerous combination Awareness 3 Coordination 4 Ingenuity 6 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 3 Athletics 2, Convince 3, Craft 3, Fighting 2, Knowledge 4, Marksman 2, Medicine3[5], Science 4, Subterfuge 4, Survival 1, Technology 4, Transport 1 Attractive, Biochemical Genius, Boffin, Technically Adept, Cloistered, Silver Spoon Gear: compact blaster, various small tools, scanner, computer, medical/science kit, drug/poison/pathogen kit
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 23, 2014 23:01:17 GMT
We've been thinking along similar lines regarding K9. Logically, the Doctor should have added anti-gravs once he wasn't just gliding around the Bi-Al Foundation, it's just that the BBC didn't have the technology or budget for it. I've done that for a K9 model in an article I've submitted to the Diary - plus another small enhancement that you haven't thought of "Polly" though - that's brilliant. Reminds me of the scene in the Horns of Nimon where she reveals that she's built her own sonic screwdriver, but one better. Harry as a lesser Dr. Mengele type? It certainly works with a Republic background. Interested to see how he joined the Doctor without UNIT to bring them together. Nyder? Peter Miles would certainly make a great eCompanion, but I'm intrigued by his alternate history. Did he work for a non-evil version of Davros? Nyssa, reimagined as Linea, the Destroyer of Worlds, from Stargate? It's an intriguing concept. It certainly fits her. No eAdric, though? I would have thought she'd have found his rapid cellular regeneration - and presumably, capacity for evolution - interesting to experiment on.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 23, 2014 23:53:00 GMT
We've been thinking along similar lines regarding K9. Logically, the Doctor should have added anti-gravs once he wasn't just gliding around the Bi-Al Foundation, it's just that the BBC didn't have the technology or budget for it. I've done that for a K9 model in an article I've submitted to the Diary - plus another small enhancement that you haven't thought of Yeah I'm not bound by the limitations of '70s TV, thankfully. Since I originally wrote up 'Fang' (a name I borrowed from the FASA RPG) I've read an interesting AltHist on Nelvana's proposed animated Doctor Who series so I may revise him a bit. BTW, also over on AH.com there's a fascinating timeline of an American version of Doctor Who: The Yankee Doctor."Polly" though - that's brilliant. Reminds me of the scene in the Horns of Nimon where she reveals that she's built her own sonic screwdriver, but one better. There'll be a certain competitiveness between the evil versions of the fourth Doctor and Romana, that's one manifestation of it. Harry as a lesser Dr. Mengele type? It certainly works with a Republic background. Interested to see how he joined the Doctor without UNIT to bring them together. He's inspired as much by some of the Argentine military doctors who were involved with the Disappeared; as you said he's not so much a Mengele as a junior staffer who managed to survive the collapse. Nyder? Peter Miles would certainly make a great eCompanion, but I'm intrigued by his alternate history. Did he work for a non-evil version of Davros? That'd be telling. Though there'll be few good people in the last days of the Forever War. Nyssa, reimagined as Linea, the Destroyer of Worlds, from Stargate? It's an intriguing concept. It certainly fits her. That's exactly my inspiration. Sort-of like the Rani but without the maturity and self-control. No eAdric, though? I would have thought she'd have found his rapid cellular regeneration - and presumably, capacity for evolution - interesting to experiment on. Adric will appear very, very, briefly. Romana's analogue has a low tolerance for annoying teenagers.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 24, 2014 12:01:28 GMT
Part 11 - Fourth eDoctor – The Adventures, part one.1. Planet of Evil Their first trip in the now mostly functional TARDIS takes the eDoctor and eJo to a planet millions of parsecs from Earth in the far future, where they encounter human explorers from the Morestran Empire tampering with a portal to a negative matter universe. They escape unharmed, unlike the Morestrans. 2. Nightmare While relaxing on a luxury spaceliner the slightly bored eDoctor stirs up trouble. His TARDIS interacts with another device using extra-dimensional technology, causing the portions of the planets stored in it to phase in and out of the ship. This is exacerbated when, due to this dimensional mucking about distorting local hyperpace, the liner collides with another starship, leaving it impaled "like a sausage on a stick". The eDoctor assists a scientist who's come up with a novel source of funding, to evade capture, and the adventure ends with the eDoctor laughing uproariously while the liner's passengers, high on Vrax, are pursued and eaten by Mandrils. 3. Rescue The eDoctor and eJo encounter a crashed Terran long range colonisation expedition with a badly malfunctioning AI computer. The eDoctor takes the opportunity to start a three way breeding programme to produce minions(Savages, Psis and Techs) and leaves them to develop for a while. 4. Underworld The eDoctor and eJo encounter the remnants of the supposedly dead Minyans and are captured by them (who better to trap a TARDIS?). With his TARDIS impounded the eDoctor is forced to repair their ship and help in their quest; he gains his final revenge with the aid of a pocket sized mega-tonne converter bomb and the Minyan race is finally extinct 5. Pyramids Trapped inside a country house, isolated by a force field barrier and his TARDIS captured by an Osiran time corridor, the eDoctor must defeat Sutekh to escape with his life. The eDoctor acquires a few bits of Osiran tech, servitors and the time cabinets ("You never know when they'll come in handy"). Meanwhile eJo starts having second thoughts about travelling in the TARDIS 6. The Fendahl The eDoctor and eJo arrive on Earth in the mid 1980s and stumble on an attempt by former fascist scientists to control the lethal powerof the Fendahl. They also encounter a inquisitive and ambitious journalist anda n ex-RBN doctor with a nasty secret. - In fact they encounter them pointing pistols at each other...
eHarry is being blackmailed to work on a number of projects led by an insane scientist (Fendalman) with couple of other former RSF scientists, eSJ investigates and the eDoctor ends the problem, leaving a rather large hole in the English countryside. eJo decides to remain behind; most of the heat is off and she can establish a new life for herself. Using her skills, some alien tech, the salvaged Fendalman files and a large bag of gemstones donated by the eDoctor to take over Fendleman's Odessa-like organisation. She'll be back... - eSJ and eHarry accompany the eDoctor
7. Ark Thanks to eHarry's clumsiness the party arrives on a Trojan space station in the far future; the TARDIS is accidentally transmatted to Earth and the eDoctor has to figure out how to get there and recover it,dealing with some Wirrn and a lot of overslept humans in the process. Irritated by his clumsiness, the eDoctor introduces eHarry to subtleties in the meaning of 'pain' that even the RSF were unaware of... 8. Experiment The party travel to Earth via borrowed shuttle to recover the TARDIS, encountering a Sontaren scout party (who've got the TARDIS) and a human party (who are being picked off by the Sontarens). The irritated eDoctor uses the humans to defeat the Sontarens, with eHarry almost being killed in the crossfire. 9. Revenge An accidental interaction between the TARDIS and the long-out-of-warranty transmat stage, causes the party to be sent to Nerva station far in it's past. Separated from the TARDIS and involved in a Cyberman attack on the asteroid ship created from the remains of Voga, the eDoctor is forced to help defeat them so as to be on hand for the TARDIS's arrival. Kellman almost gets recruited as a minion ("He has a real gift for duplicity and backstabbing") but is killed by the Cybermen. A significant amount of gold is cached away in the TARDIS, along with a few Cyber-bombs... 10. Genesis For once the eDoctor formulates a plan; to travel to Skarro to meddle with the creation of the Dals and Thaleks, making them more suitable for his plans. However other factions are in play in the final days of the Forever War. Both sides in the war are developing their final master plans and ultimate weapons. Under their genius geneticist Thala, the Tharons are planning extensive changes to their genome to resist the mutagenic conditions and produce better soldiers. While the rather insane (and far less photogenic) Kelek is developing travel machines to accommodate the irrevocably mutated Dalans, an planning genetic modifications of his own. Both sides are also preparing their final weapons; the Tharons have developed a rapidly mutating biological weapon that will eliminate all Dalans (and, unknown to all but Thala's inner circle, most of the Tharons too). The Dalans have constructed a armoured sub-orbital missile, resistant to defensive laser fire, to deliver their amassed stock of dirty nuclear weapons. eHarry is killed, stumbles on a land mine ("I said his clumsiness would be the death of him") and the eDoctor's plan fails, aided by some subtle meddling by Koschei; the Dal cyborgs gain free will, most of the Dalans and Tharons die in a biological and radiological holocaust - The eDoctor does acquire a new Minion, Nyder, security chief and lackey to Kerek
11. Androids A survivor from a fascist British deep space expedition, abandoned during the Revolution, allies with the Kraals to invade Earth in the early 1980s. eSJ assists the eDoctor and almost meets herself. The eDoctor acquires a number of android duplicates, including himself and his current minions, also a few Kraal neutron-disruption blasters 12. Face of Evil The eDoctor returns to check on his Xoanon experiment on Mordee but finds the three factions hostile to him. His efforts are frustrated when the controlling AI computer unites them against the eDoctor. All is not lost, eDoctor acquires a new minion, eLeela, a violent, and borderline psychotic, primitive warrior with a taste for inflicting pain 13. Morbius The eDoctor and minions land unwillingly on the planet Karn and discover that the renegade Time Lord leader Morbius is still alive (sort of). Solon is attempting to upload the mind of Morbius into an android body, built from parts scavenged from the crashed spaceships by his minions (he can't get off-planet and not even Planet Express will deliver to Karn). - The TARDIS was dragged to Karn by the Sisterhood and the eDoctor isforced to deal with them to leave.
Morbius, the upload completed and his android body completed with Kraal parts, leads a group of other androids to attack the Sisterhood; their robotic bodies mostly immune to psionic attacks. The eDoctor and co assist with a psi-jammer (from Mordee), poison gas, eLeela's ferocity and eNyder's sneakiness; they then leave before Morbius can commandeer the TARDIS. Morbius leaves, in an android body that's a near double of the eDoctor.
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Post by starkllr on Nov 24, 2014 12:34:58 GMT
Just have to say - this is absolutely brilliant. More, please!
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Post by da professor on Nov 24, 2014 12:46:48 GMT
Just have to say - this is absolutely brilliant. More, please! What he said.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 24, 2014 13:30:42 GMT
Just have to say - this is absolutely brilliant. More, please! What he said. Awwww... There's plenty more to come, I've got my original completed posts up to the end of the Seventh eDoctor's tenure, so I'm almost half-way through now. I'm also working on the Eighth eDoctor with the arc done and some of the adventures also complete.
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 24, 2014 14:19:41 GMT
An ODESSA-style organisation? So the eJo gets to roam the world as widely as her counterpart, fighting against freedom and making the world unsafe for democracy? Oh, that's clever. Makes me wonder if there might be an eSantiago lurking somewhere.
Were you planning to post the eWorld background you've created? I'd be very interested to see it. I'm a big fan of GURPS-Alternate-Earth style settings.
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Post by starkllr on Nov 24, 2014 14:23:02 GMT
I'm very curious what the 5th eDoctor will be like. Based on what you've got so far, my guess would be that he hangs back and lets the minions do pretty much all the work.
As for those minions - I can totally picture Lytton from "Ressurection of the Daleks" ending up as one. Hindle from "Kinda" would be entertaining as well (although I imagine he'd have a fairly short lifespan in that role).
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 24, 2014 17:10:52 GMT
An ODESSA-style organisation? So the eJo gets to roam the world as widely as her counterpart, fighting against freedom and making the world unsafe for democracy? Oh, that's clever. Makes me wonder if there might be an eSantiago lurking somewhere. Thank you . Yep eJo has decades of mischief ahead of her; collecting alien tech, stealing Scottish nuclear missiles, attempting to develop her own time machine... Not to forget grooming a new generation, including a certain teenage girl. Were you planning to post the eWorld background you've created? I'd be very interested to see it. I'm a big fan of GURPS-Alternate-Earth style settings. Well I didn't think anyone would be that interested but I'll put my notes together and post them as an interlude between Doctors. Meanwhile here's a teaser from several incarnations ahead: Escaping San Francisco and the time-warp the eDoctor finds himself again in the United States, this time in New York in 1936 during the run up to the contentious election of that year. - Ravaged by the Oki 'flu, the Dust Bowl (which has devastated more than a million square kilometres of agricultural land) and the Great Slump, the country faces a choice between the 'New Deal' promised by Franklin Roosevelt, the populist Huey Long and his Progressives, and the Republicans under Alf Landon.
Watching from the State Building, the travellers see a 'black blizzard' hit New York, choking hundreds. However there's more than that going on; a radio adaption of Wells' "Invaders from Mars" is being broadcast from the tower, one that will cause a minor panic as people believe it's true. Of course it's not actually real... When the eDoctor, still unstable from his recent regeneration,impersonates a private detective he finds himself embroiled in murky US politics as well as a real invasion. Just what is in the dust clouds threatening US cities?
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 24, 2014 17:23:16 GMT
I'm very curious what the 5th eDoctor will be like. Based on what you've got so far, my guess would be that he hangs back and lets the minions do pretty much all the work. eDoctor 5 (aargh so many superscripts) will lack much of his predecessors self-confidence and will actually be easier for his minions to manipulate. Especially ePeri. However he'll still be quite callous, if less interested in conquest and destruction, and mater mercurial. As for those minions - I can totally picture Lytton from "Ressurection of the Daleks" ending up as one. Hindle from "Kinda" would be entertaining as well (although I imagine he'd have a fairly short lifespan in that role). Yeah there are a few potential second-tier minions like Nyder (and Harry actually) who don't survive that long. A spoiler about Lytton: he doesn't become a minion, he and Griffiths escape with a time machine. They return.
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