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|date = [[6012]] | |date = [[6012]] | ||
|location = [[Messaline]] | |location = [[Messaline]] | ||
|result = {{il|Peace|Death of [[Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)|Jenny]]|[[Cobb (The Doctor's Daughter)|Cobb]] imprisoned|Messaline now habitable}} | |result = {{il|Peace|Death and resurrection of [[Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)|Jenny]]|[[Cobb (The Doctor's Daughter)|Cobb]] imprisoned|Messaline now habitable}} | ||
|side1 = [[Human]]s | |side1 = [[Human]]s | ||
|side2 = [[Hath]] | |side2 = [[Hath]] | ||
|leader1 = [[General]] [[Cobb (The Doctor's Daughter)|Cobb]] | |leader1 = [[General]] [[Cobb (The Doctor's Daughter)|Cobb]] | ||
|leader2 = | |leader2 = [[Hath Gable]] | ||
|first = The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|clip = The Doctor finds Messaline's Source - Doctor Who - BBC}} | |first = The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|clip = The Doctor finds Messaline's Source - Doctor Who - BBC}} | ||
The '''Human-Hath War''' was a [[war]] on the [[planet]] [[Messaline]] that lasted seven days, from [[17 July]] [[6012]] when the two species — [[human]]s and [[Hath]] — arrived on the planet, to [[24 July]], when the [[Tenth Doctor]] arrived and intervened. | The '''Human-Hath War''' was a [[war]] on the [[planet]] [[Messaline]] that lasted seven days, from [[17 July]] [[6012]] when the two species — [[human]]s and [[Hath]] — arrived on the planet, to [[24 July]], when the [[Tenth Doctor]] arrived and intervened. | ||
It began when the [[terraform]]ing [[colony]] lost its mission commander. In the power vacuum, the humans and Hath | It began when the [[terraform]]ing [[colony]] lost its mission commander to [[Byzantine fever]]. In the resulting power vacuum, the humans and Hath divided into factions, became greedy, and began to wage war on each other. They used recalibrated progenation chambers, originally intended to create new settlers, to breed generation after generation of [[soldier]]s who had no names but were trained in combat and the basic history of their colony. | ||
By day seven, the original mission profile had passed completely into legend. All the survivors knew was that they had to search for a now-mythical | Due to the high casualties of the war, both sides went through about twenty generations a day. This high casualty rate meant that the story of the war's origin became increasingly distorted as it was passed on from one generation to the next. By day seven, the original mission profile had passed completely into legend. All the survivors knew was that they had to search for a now-mythical object called [[The Source (The Doctor's Daughter)|the Source]]. The humans believed the Source to be a [[weapon]], but in reality it was the device needed to jump-start the terraforming process. | ||
At that point the Doctor arrived, found the Source and used it to demonstrate to the combatants their true mission and end the war. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') | At that point the Doctor arrived, found the Source, and used it to demonstrate to the combatants their true mission and end the war. The very next day, human and Hath were working side-by-side to build their new society. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009]]'' states that the war "grew from an argument over a game of cards". | * ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009]]'' states that the war "grew from an argument over a game of cards". | ||
* ''[[ | * ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'' states that fighting broke out after the mission commander died of "Byzantine Fever". While the Doctor is looking at the ship's logs, they also state that the captain died of Byzantine Fever. | ||
[[Category:Human-Hath War| ]] | [[Category:Human-Hath War| ]] | ||
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[[Category:Planetary level wars]] | [[Category:Planetary level wars]] | ||
[[Category:61st century events]] | [[Category:61st century events]] | ||
[[Category:Hath conflicts]] |