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|object name = Project Indigo
|type = [[Teleportation]]
|type = [[Teleportation]]
|origin = Human reverse-engineered [[Sontaran]] technology
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|appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]
|first = The Stolen Earth (TV story)
|appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Turn of the Tides (audio story)|The Turn of the Tides]]''|[[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]''}}
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'''Project Indigo''' was [[UNIT|UNIT's]] first experimental [[teleport]]ation device. It was reverse-engineered from captured [[Sontaran]] [[teleport pod|technology]].
'''Project Indigo''' was [[UNIT]]'s first experimental [[teleport]]ation device developed in [[2009]]. It was reverse-engineered from [[Sontaran]] [[teleport pod|technology]] which was left behind following their [[Sontaran invasion of Earth|failed invasion]] of [[Earth]] in that year.


The first person to (successfully) field-test the prototype was [[Martha Jones]]. As the device teleported her to her [[Francine Jones|mother's]] house -- the place she most wanted to be -- it suggested the integration of a neural interface device for determining destination in order to make the technology man-portable. Martha later used the device again, to teleport herself to the vicinity of the [[Osterhagen_key|Osterhagen]] base in [[Germany]], where it was last seen discarded by the door of the detonation control chamber. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'').
The first person to successfully field-test the prototype was [[Martha Jones]] during the [[21st century Dalek invasion|Dalek invasion]] later in 2009. Prior to this, [[Jack Harkness]] warned Martha against using it given its experimental nature. He told [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Ianto Jones]] it had no coordinates or stabilisation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') Though trying to get to an [[Osterhagen Station]], she was instead briefly diverted to [[Atlantis]] by a temporal crisis. She took notes of the coordinate, but then immediately activated Project Indigo again, thinking to herself that "there's no place like home". ([[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]'')


== Conjecture ==
This worked, with Project Indigo tapping into her mind and taking to her [[Francine Jones|mother's]] house, "the place [she] most wanted to be". Martha later used the device again, to teleport herself to the vicinity of the [[Osterhagen key|Osterhagen]] base in [[Germany]], where it was discarded by the door of the detonation control chamber. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
The Dalek massacre of [[UNIT]] personnel around the globe likely resulted in the deaths of Project Indigo's design teams and provided private commercial interests with the window of opportunity to steal the contents of the organisation's extant storage facilities. As a result, the development of stand-alone teleport devices seems to have ceased with attention being turned to close-ended [[transmat]] technology that would eventually culminate in the [[T-Mat]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'') and its successor, the [[Interstitial Mass Transit System]] ([[NA]]: ''[[Transit]]'').
 
[[Jac (The Magician's Apprentice)|Jac]] used Project Indigo to rapidly transport [[Jo Jones]], [[Rani Chandra]] and [[Rio (The Turn of the Tides)|Rio]] from the Amazon jungle to UNIT's base at [[Gibraltar]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Turn of the Tides (audio story)|The Turn of the Tides]]'')


Codes from Project Indigo were all that was required to reactivate the teleportation function on [[Jack Harkness]]'s [[Time Agency wrist strap]]. This implies not only that the teleportation technology of the wrist strip, or in the housed [[Time Agency]] [[vortex manipulator]], could be descended from Project Indigo, but more significantly, that the Doctor did not use his [[sonic screwdriver]] to physically damage the vortex manipulator when he disabled the teleport function, but had simply erased certain control codes from its memory.
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Latest revision as of 13:13, 30 August 2022

Project Indigo was UNIT's first experimental teleportation device developed in 2009. It was reverse-engineered from Sontaran technology which was left behind following their failed invasion of Earth in that year.

The first person to successfully field-test the prototype was Martha Jones during the Dalek invasion later in 2009. Prior to this, Jack Harkness warned Martha against using it given its experimental nature. He told Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones it had no coordinates or stabilisation. (TV: The Stolen Earth) Though trying to get to an Osterhagen Station, she was instead briefly diverted to Atlantis by a temporal crisis. She took notes of the coordinate, but then immediately activated Project Indigo again, thinking to herself that "there's no place like home". (GAME: Lost in Time)

This worked, with Project Indigo tapping into her mind and taking to her mother's house, "the place [she] most wanted to be". Martha later used the device again, to teleport herself to the vicinity of the Osterhagen base in Germany, where it was discarded by the door of the detonation control chamber. (TV: Journey's End)

Jac used Project Indigo to rapidly transport Jo Jones, Rani Chandra and Rio from the Amazon jungle to UNIT's base at Gibraltar. (AUDIO: The Turn of the Tides)

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