Three members of Trevor’s crew tracked down their former leader, and retrieved their stolen crystal lattice which - as the product of organic crystallography - had bonded to Patricia’s flesh. They tore it away, killing her. Trevor ordered his Skarasen to attack the Zygons’ spaceship. The Skarasen, the crew and the spaceship were all destroyed in an explosion.
Lucie thought Trevor had died, and was unaware that her Aunty Pat had perished. Trevor shapeshifted one last time, and assumed his late wife’s form. In the decades to come, “he” fulfilled history by masquerading as the Aunty Pat that Lucie had grown up with. The eighth Doctor knew about the deception.
= c 1984 (winter) - Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma [609]
On Trion, the dictator Rehctaht fell from power, and the exiled Clansmen - including Turlough - returned home to a hero’s welcome. Turlough used his knowledge of TARDISes to build the first-ever ARTEMIS drive, a time-travel device that used “muon” particles. On New Trion, Turlough discovered a copy of an alien edifice named the Mobile Castle, and equipped it with a second ARTEMIS drive. The in-flight Castle was sabotaged and crashed onto Trion, destroying the planet. Earth and New Trion were subsequently annihilated in nuclear conflicts.
Turlough discovered that Rehctaht had transferred her mind into the body of his old friend Juras Maateh, and had engineered Earth, Trion and New Trion’s obliteration to further her gravity control experiments, hoping to gain the secret of time travel. Turlough killed Rechtaht/Juras, then travelled back in time to prevent this history from occurring.
In 1984, scientists in Princeton discovered Strange Matter. [610] The seventh Doctor and Mel visited the Welsh village of Llanfer Ceiriog. [611] Torchwood bought the London security firm HC Clements. [612]
1984 - “The Fires Down Below” [613]
Lethbridge-Stewart sent Major Whitaker of UNIT to Reykjavik to investigate an unnatural increase in volcanic activity. The UNIT troops discovered a squad of Quarks planting seismic charges. A member of the party, Professor Iskander, learned that the Dominators were planning to destroy Earth to extract its core for fuel. The UNIT troops attacked, then escaped as the Dominators’ machines exploded and destroyed the aliens.
(=) 1984 - TimeH: The Winning Side [614]
Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish visited a parallel timeline where the release of nuclear secrets in 1949 had caused a massive suppression of education, schools, libraries and scientists, and a single Party had uncontested political power.
1985 - Attack of the Cybermen [615]
The police had been aware of Lytton, a sophisticated thief who had stolen valuable electronic components, for a year. Lytton had discovered the Cybermen were operating in the sewers of London and was trying to contact them. The Cybermen tried, but failed, to divert Halley’s Comet so that it would crash into Earth and avert the destruction of Mondas in 1986.
The Cybermen captured Lytton and lured the sixth Doctor and Peri to Telos in the future.
c 1985 - The Two Doctors [616]
Some years ago, the Doctor had officially represented the Time Lords at the opening of space station Chimera in the Third Zone. Now a renegade, his second incarnation - accompanied by Jamie - was sent to the station by the Time Lords. Experiments conducted by professors Kartz and Reimer were registering 0.4 on the Bocca Scale, and could potentially threaten the stability of space-time.
Before the Doctor could finish lodging a protest with the Head of Projects - his old friend, Joinson Dastari - a Sontaran attack devastated the station. The Third Zone had been betrayed by Chessene of the Franzine Grig, an Androgum that Dastari had technologically augmented.
The Doctor was captured and taken to Seville by one of Chessene’s Sontaran allies, Major Varl. He was joined by Group Marshall Stike of the Ninth Sontaran Attack Group. The Sontarans wanted Dastari to operate on the Doctor and discover the means by which Time Lords had a symbiotic relationship with their travel capsules. They hoped to create a time capsule for use against the Rutan in the Madillon Cluster.
The sixth Doctor and Peri traced his earlier self to Seville, which he had visited before. He helped to rescue his former self and defeat the Sontaran plan. Chessene, Dastari and the Sontarans all died.
The sixth Doctor dropped Peri off on Earth in 1985. She didn’t expect to see him again. [617]
1985 - “Kane’s Story” [618]
The sixth Doctor and Frobisher went to New York and met up with Peri, who rejoined the TARDIS crew.
A Zygon spaceship exploded, stranding Commander Kritakh and his second, Torlakh, on Earth. They assumed human form, and set about committing industrial espionage to increase Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions. If successful, Earth would become as warm as the Zygon homeworld. [619] The third Doctor and Jo met an N-form in Tranquilandia the time they met the drug baron Gomez. [620] SeneNet acquired a Sontaran Mezon rifle. [621]
= Fitz saw the Beatles perform at Live Aid in a parallel universe. [622]
On the planet Artaris, the immortal Grayvorn kept shifting identities and rose to the rank of Reeve, becoming known as Reeve Maupassant. [623] In July 1986, the wreck of the Titanic was discovered. [624] A virus on Lalanda 21185 created hundreds of thousands of zombies. [625] Artist Karen Kuykendall created the Tarot of the Cat-People. [626]
@ Iris Wildthyme visited the eighth Doctor and Miranda and tried (unsuccessfully) to explain the gaps in his memories. That year, the Doctor won the London Marathon. [627] Dorothy McShane was disillusioned when she met her idol, pop star Johnny Chess. [628]
During the mid-eighties, Carol Bell worked for an arms manufacturer, watching SF films to inspire the creation of new weapons. [629] She had attained the rank of captain during her time with UNIT, but was rendered brain-damaged in a car accident. [630]
@ The eighth Doctor was offered a chair at Cambridge, but declined as he was dedicated to looking after Miranda.2 [631]
@ c 1985 (spring) - Father Time [632]
Sallak escaped from prison and summoned his people, the Klade, from the far future. Ferran, brother of Zevron, arrived through a time corridor in an abandoned tower block in a northern city. Ferran and Sallak killed the comatose Barry Castle as revenge for Zevron’s death, then set their sights on the eighth Doctor and Miranda.
Ferran became enamoured of Miranda and explained her alien heritage to her, but the Doctor sent him back to the far future. Miranda shot and killed Sallak, then went on the run.
Mr Wynter negotiated the price per kilo as part of a deal to fund the Contras, then bumped a rail up his nose while they mowed down their enemies with the weapons their money had purchased. [633] The eleventh Doctor visited a Little Green Storage facility on the Isle of Dogs. [634] Raine Creevy went to King’s University College. [635]
1985 (12th December) - “Skywatch-7” [636]
A Zygon attacked Skywatch-7, a UNIT radar station in the Arctic. The UNIT staff saw it off, and the intruder died after falling into frozen water.
1986
In 1986, Toshiko Sato moved back to the UK from Japan. [637] Matthew Hatch was exposed to the power of the Jack i’ the Green and started planning to release him. [638] On 28th January, 1986, the Challenger exploded. [639]
On the 26th April, 1986, a strange light shone over Takhail in the USSR - radiation from the Chernobyl disaster irradiated 11-year-old Piotr Arkady, and killed everyone else in the village. [640]
Martha Jones, a companion of the tenth Doctor, was born in 1986. [641] Henry John Parker went into seclusion. [642] In 1986, two students were incinerated while exploring a house in the “haunted” Tretarri in Cardiff. [643] When Owen Harper was six, he went to see his piano teacher after Christmas... only to discover the man had died, and been eaten by his cats. [644] The sixth Doctor insisted that his coat was the height of fashion. [645]
c 1986 - Harry Sullivan’s War [646]
Surgeon-Commander Harry Sullivan was reassigned to a NATO chemical weapons centre on the island of Yarra, and researched the lethal toxin Attila 305. He found a ny
kor inhibitase that showed great promise in both curing infertility and providing an antidote to the toxin.
Led by Zbigniew Brodsky, a terrorist group named the European Anarchist Revolution stole three ampules of the toxin. Harry exposed his department head, Conrad Gold, as being part of the conspiracy. Brodsky’s group was using the Van Gogh Appreciation Society as a front for its operations, and French authorities rounded up the terrorists during the Society’s annual meeting at the Eiffel Tower.
Harry celebrated his forty-first birthday.
c 1986 - The Nightmare Fair [647]
The Celestial Toymaker set up operations in Blackpool, and manufactured video games that manifested monsters to kill the game-players when they lost. He intended to mass produce the games, but also sought to revenge himself upon the Doctor, and drew the TARDIS to Blackpool. The sixth Doctor and Peri imprisoned the Toymaker in a holofield that was powered by the Toymaker’s own mind, and would keep him looped in time for the rest of his life. The Doctor made plans to transport the bubbled Toymaker to somewhere that he wouldn’t be noticed.
The Ventusans served as mechanics at this time, and kept half the spacefleets in the galaxy running. A replica of Blackpool was being built out by the Crab Nebula - but to the Doctor’s horror, it was, compared to the genuine article, being built for a purpose. The Pathfinders serving in an entirely pointless galactic war were now part of the Third Federation Force for Peace.
(=) 1986 - “Time Bomb” [648]
The sixth Doctor and Frobisher went to pick up Peri in New York... but discovered that the Hedron interference two hundred million years ago had disrupted history. Mankind never evolved, and dinosaur men ruled the Earth.
1986 (December) - The Tenth Planet [649]
Technological developments continued on Earth. The Z-Bomb and Cobra missiles had been developed, and Zeus spaceships (launched on Demeter rockets) carried out manned missions to the moon as well as close-orbital work. Zeus 4’s mission was to monitor weather and cosmic rays. Space missions were controlled from the South Pole base (callsign: “Snowcap”). The space programme was now an international effort with Americans, Australians, British, Italians, Spaniards, Swiss and Africans manning Snowcap. International Space Command and its Secretary General, Wigner, controlled the programme from Geneva.
In late 1986, “the tenth planet” appeared in the skies of the southern hemisphere. This was Mondas, the homeworld of the Cybermen. The first Doctor, Ben and Polly were present at Snowcap as Mondas attempted to drain Earth’s energy, but absorbed too much and was destroyed.
The first Doctor’s body was so aged, it had worn out. The disembodied Oliver Harper used the last of his essence to manifest one final time - as the weakened Doctor stood in the TARDIS doorway, he spotted Oliver and gave a little wave before entering. [650] Aided by Ben and Polly, the Doctor entered the TARDIS console room and was “renewed” into a new body. [651]
Tobias Vaughn recovered the bodies of the Cybermen from Snowcap. [652] Cybermen who had crashed in the South Pole - remnants of an earlier, failed invasion - located and adapted Cyber technology from the 1986 incursion. [653] After Mondas’ destruction, a surviving group of Cybermen settled on the planet Lonsis. [654] In the late nineteen-eighties, archaeologist Peter Warmsley began excavating a site associated with King Arthur on the edge of Lake Vortigern near Carbury. [655]
Ace was now becoming a problem. She had sat her O-Levels, including French and Computer Studies, and was beginning to study for her A-Levels. But she was expelled from school for blowing up the Art Room using homemade gelignite - an event she described as “a creative act”. Ace vanished one day in a timestorm whipped up by Fenric, following experiments in her bedroom that involved her trying to extract nitro-glycerine from gelignite. Ace’s mother reported her missing, and her friends thought she was either dead or in Birmingham. [656]
Ace did work experience at an old folks home. She worked in McDonald’s on weekends. [657] She kicked a time-lost and penniless Tegan out of the establishment, failing to realise they would later have something in common. [658]
Decades after she left the TARDIS, Polly Wright had married a man named Simon, and they had a son named Mikey. Ben Jackson had also married. On the last day of 1986, Ben and Polly met in a hotel room to commemorate the passing of Mondas, and their involvement in it with the Doctor. Despite the temptation, they kept their relationship platonic. [659]
The Johnny Chess album Things to do on a Wet Tuesday Night was released in 1987. [660] In the same year, Jason Kane’s sister Lucy was born. [661] SeneNet begin developing their Maxx games. [662]
@ In 1987, the Doctor was accidentally responsible for releasing a breed of talking wild boar into the wild. [663] In 1987, the UK government tested an alien device on the village of Rawbone, and made everyone there sterile. The town was gradually isolated from the outside world. [664] Sarah Jane profiled Dr. Francis Augur for Metropolitan magazine in 1987. [665]
The Headhunter, now allied with the spiders on Metebelis III, planted some Metebelis crystals in Yorkshire in 1987. A potholer, Clark Goodman, found the crystals, and the spiders implanted beliefs in his mind. Goodman founded a self-help organisation - “The Eightfold Truth” - and sent its members to locate more of the crystals. The group would, unknowingly, spend eighteen years facilitating the spiders’ plan to conquer thousands of worlds. [666]
The eighth Doctor visited Little Caldwell and met Joel Mintz. [667] Rose Tyler, a companion of the ninth and tenth Doctors, was born on 27th April, 1987. [668] Katherine Costello Wainright (formerly Kathy Nightingale) died the same year. [669]
Colonel Felnikov of the Soviet Union engineered the 1987 recession as a means of attacking the West by destabilising its economy. Those in the know about this dubbed it The Crime of the Century. Felnikov’s superiors lost too much money in the resultant economic bloodbath, and he was booted back to the Army. [670]
Benny had Isaac Summerfield babysit Peter in 1987 while she dealt with a quarrel between the Draconians and the Mim. [671]
1987 (July) - Damaged Goods [672]
The seventh Doctor, Roz and Chris investigated the Quadrant, an area of tower blocks in an English city. An N-form, an ancient Gallifreyan weapons system, had occupied the body of drug dealer Simon “the Capper” Jenkins. The N-form was searching for vampires, per its programming, and sold contaminated coke that allowed it to manifest in the brains of anyone who took it. The N-form erupted and went on a killing spree, but the Doctor shut it down.
(=) 1987 (7th November) - Father’s Day [673]
The ninth Doctor took Rose back to witness the death of her father, Peter Tyler, from a hit-and-run car accident. Rose saved her father’s life, which altered history and created a “wound” in time. Winged creatures, the Reapers, converged on the wound to “sterilise” it by consuming every person on Earth. Humanity was eradicated on a large scale, but Peter acknowledged the historical deviation and sacrificed himself. Upon his death, time reverted to normal and the Reapers disappeared.
Outside the wedding of Stewart Hoskins and Sarah Clark, Peter Tyler died from a hit-and-run accident. An unnamed young woman stayed with him until the end.
Jackie and Rose continued to reside at Flat 48, Bucknall House, Powell Estate SE15 7GO. [674]
The eighth Doctor and Lethbridge-Stewart discovered the secret of the Embodiment of Gris in Hong Kong in 1988. [675] Benny accidentally had a comic commissioned while walking through the offices of an American comic book publisher, just because she had a British accent. [676] Victor Podesta, an associate of the Three Families who had adopted the name John Forester, died in La Boca, Argentina. [677]
1988 (8th April) - The Company of Friends: “Izzy’s Story” [678]
The eighth Doctor took Izzy to Grub and Sons newsstand in Stockbridge, as she knew that a prized copy of Aggotron #56 could be found there. The issue revealled the true face of Courtmaster Cruel, a vigilante magistrate, but all copies of it had mysteriously vanished afterwards. The travellers foun
d Suits - the android henchlings of The Man, a villain from the comic - ruining every copy of #56 with their brolly guns.
At the Aggotron publication offices in Queenspoint Spire, London, the Doctor and Izzy found that the comic’s editor (known in print as “Grak, the Head-Swollen”) and artists were aliens that had been censored from their native Smog Worlds, and had based many of the Aggotron characters on their native forms. They also confronted Derek Dell - a geek who’d adopted the Courtmaster’s identity in the fifty-first century, but was so horrified upon learning that the original artwork to issue #56 rendered Courtmaster Cruel as a girl, he’d dispatched the Suits to destroy every copy. Izzy was similarly aghast at the revelation.
Dell, while trying to escape, was haphazardly flung through time. The Doctor relocated Grak and his artists back to the Smog Worlds, and Aggotron was merged into Square Jaw.
On 22nd May, 1988, an accident involving a Range Rover killed the parents of a young girl named Alice, and put her in a wheelchair for life. [679]
Lucie Miller, a companion of the eighth Doctor and (briefly) the Monk, was born on 31st July, 1988. [680]
Santiago, the grandson of Cliff and Jo Jones, was born in a caravan in the foothills of the Andes. He would never attend school, and instead travel the world with his parents while his advocacy-minded grandmother did such things as chain herself to the railings at a G8 Summit. Santiago’s father would get arrested - twice - at a climate change conference. [681]
A temporal breach was detected high above London. Torchwood constructed a huge skyscraper to enclose the breach; the building was privately known as Torchwood Tower, but publicly it served as Canary Wharf, a business development. Torchwood also used the facility as their main headquarters. [682]
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