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|image= | |image = Rassilon Star Death.jpg | ||
|series=[[DWM backup comic stories]] | |series = [[DWM backup comic stories]] | ||
|main character= | |main character = | ||
|featuring= [[Rassilon]] | |featuring = [[Rassilon]] | ||
|enemy= [[Fenris]] | |enemy = [[Fenris]] | ||
|setting= [[ | |setting = [[Flagship]] [[Aeon]], [[Qqaba]] orbit | ||
|editor= [[Dez Skinn]] | |editor = [[Dez Skinn]] | ||
|writer= [[Alan Moore]] | |writer = [[Alan Moore]] | ||
|artist= [[John Stokes]] | |artist = [[John Stokes]] | ||
|colourist= | |colourist = | ||
|letterer= | |letterer = | ||
|publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 47|Issue 47]] | |publication = ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 47|Issue 47]] | ||
|release date= [[December (releases)|December]] [[1980 (releases)|1980]] | |release date = [[December (releases)|December]] [[1980 (releases)|1980]] | ||
|publisher= Marvel Comics | |publisher = Marvel Comics | ||
|format= B&W 1 part / 4 pages | |format = B&W 1 part / 4 pages | ||
|prev= Business as Usual (comic story) | |prev = Business as Usual (comic story) | ||
|next= The Touchdown on Deneb-7 (comic story) | |next = The Touchdown on Deneb-7 (comic story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a [[DWM backup comic stories|backup comic story]] published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' in [[1981 (releases)|1981]]. It featured the early days of the [[Time Lord]] civilisation and was set during the time of [[Rassilon]] and [[Omega]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a [[DWM backup comic stories|backup comic story]] published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' in [[1981 (releases)|1981]]. It featured the early days of the [[Time Lord]] civilisation and was set during the time of [[Rassilon]] and [[Omega]]. | ||
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Revision as of 05:59, 1 May 2020
Star Death was a backup comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 1981. It featured the early days of the Time Lord civilisation and was set during the time of Rassilon and Omega.
Summary
On the order of Grand Master of the Prydonian Chapter, Rassilon, Lord Griffen and Lady Jodelex await the collapse of the dying star, Qqaba. Fenris, also known as the Hell-Bringer, a mercenary from the future, travels back in time to sabotage the experiment and change Time Lord history. He causes the ships' stasis haloes to fail, leaving Lord Omega doomed to fall into the black hole. However, Rassilon's intervention sees Fenris dispatched and the experiment a success. Fenris' discarded belt provides the much needed technology to use the new energy and will provide a form of directional control.
Characters
References
Individuals
- Lord Griffen belongs to the Elders of Gallifrey.
- Rassilon can spring bolts of power arc from his fingertips, a power called electro-direction.
Technology
- Gallifreyans were provided with starbreaker ships. The flagship of the fleet was Aeon.
- Fenris uses a wave scrambler to sabotage the stasis haloes.
- Fenris is provided with a time-jumper. Rassilon gets inspiration from it to invent directional control of time travel.
Notes
- This back-up strip was introduced by the Fourth Doctor.
- Details about the genesis of Gallifreyan time travel and the disappearance of Omega (TV: The Three Doctors, Remembrance of the Daleks et al.) are expanded.
- This story, along with the comics 4-D War and Black Sun Rising, takes place during the Black Sun War.
- In 2012, Lawrence Miles said, "Alan Moore's back-up strips were an obvious influence on both Marc Platt's view of ye olde Gallifrey and my view of its future."[1]
- Rassilon claiming Fenris' directional controls roots Time Lord society in a bootstrap paradox. Interference - Book One would later assert the Order of the Black Sun was actually a creation of Faction Paradox.
Original print details
- Publication with page count and closing captions
- DWM 47 (4) The End
Reprints
- Reprinted by Marvel in The Daredevils issue 5
Continuity
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