Where in Time and Space is Torchwood 4?

[Kit]

Anyone running a game with Torchwood 4? Specifically, a game focusing on it being "lost?" I suppose one possibility is that the Torchwood 4 team [and possibly their entire base to make it amusing] have fallen through a Rift of something similar and are trying to get home.

[Craig Oxbrow]

I suspect its a joke about MediaCity Manchester, the BBC's theoretical new centre. So maybe they started in Manchester and fell into a gap in time...

[serok42]

I am playing in a game where we are Torchwood 4 based in Indianapolis IN (our hometown).

The story was that Torchwood set up Torchwood 4 in the colonies to protect England's stake in them.

Around the time of the Civil war a rift was discovered in Indianapolis. Torchwood 4 lost contact with the other Torchwood branches around this time and became "lost".

I don't exactly remember the entire history. My character came in as a newbie from The Initiative (from Buffy the Vampire slayer. I figured it was a good American Torchwood equivalent). So he doesn't know and I don't remember. So it works =)

[Captain Rachel]

I'm currently planning a game for my College's RPG club for this coming school year. The main focus of the game isn't on Torchwood 4, but TW4 does make an appearance.

In my game the party is a group of "ordinary" humans that a TARDIS has kidnapped so that they can help her find her crew

My version of TW4 was located on a rift like TW3 is and that this rift exploded/had a major event. This caused the entire Hub of Torchwood 4 (and it's 6 person team) to slip through the rift, which deposited it randomly on a jungle planet with no inhabitants. (There are plants and animals, but no sentient beings).
Since the members of Torchwood 4 have no way to get back to Earth they decided to make a sort of colony. Unfortunately Torchwood 4 had a cyber-conversion unit in it's basement, which managed to make a few cyber-shades... which are now trying to convert the Team Members. After all has been cleared up the members of TW4 decide to stay on the planet, since they TW 1 has probably already had them declared dead back on Earth.

TW4 kinda comes up later in the "story arc". Time passed after the TARDIS crew left and the TW4 actually did find some sort of sentient population, which they "danced" with (it seems to me that Humans in the DW universe should have the trait "able to dance with EVERYTHING). Eventually humans go out into space and discover the planet TW4 landed on. By this time the only info the locals have about TW4 are some sort of vague creation myths. It doesn't help that the humans bring some sort of disease which kills off most of the local race. However a few survive and they start a colony w/ the human settlers... which is later nicknamed "Roanoke".
The TARDIS crew doesn't initially know that this is the same planet where they left TW4 (I'll give them hints, allow them to figure it out).