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|name              = The Hyperion Empire
{{Infobox Story SMW
|image            = TwelveHyperionsTHE.jpg
|image            = Windermere destruction.jpg
|doctor            = Twelfth Doctor
|doctor            = Twelfth Doctor
|companions        = [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]
|companions        = [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]
|enemy            = [[Hyperion (Terrorformer)|Hyperions]], [[the Scorched]]
|enemy            = [[Hyperion (species)|Hyperions]], [[the Scorched]]
|setting          = [[London]], [[2015]]
|featuring        = [[Kate Stewart|Kate]]
|writer            = [[Robbie Morrison]]
|setting          = [[London]], [[Summer]] [[2015]]
|writer            = Robbie Morrison (writer)
|designer          = [[Rob Farmer]]
|designer          = [[Rob Farmer]]
|editor            = [[Andrew James]]
|editor            = [[Andrew James]]
|artist            = [[Daniel Indro]]<br>[[Ronilson Friere]]
|artist            = [[Daniel Indro]], [[Ronilson Friere]]
|colourist        = [[Slamet Mujiono]]
|colourist        = [[Slamet Mujiono]]
|letterer          = [[Richard Starkings]]<br>[[Jimmy Betancourt]]
|letterer          = [[Richard Starkings]], [[Jimmy Betancourt]]
|cover            =  
|cover            =  
|publication      = ''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor]]'' #12-
|publication      = [[12D 12]]-[[12D 15|15]]
|release date      = [[30 September (releases)|30 September]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] -
|release date      = 30 September - 24 December 2015
|cover date        = [[September (releases)|September]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] -
|cover date        = September - December 2015
|reprint          = DWCT 2.4
|reprint2          = DWCT 2.5
|reprint3          = DWCT 2.6
|traded            = ''[[Hyperion (graphic novel)|Hyperion]]''
|publisher        = Titan Comics
|publisher        = Titan Comics
|format            = Comic
|format            = Comic - 4 parts
|series            = ''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor]]''
|series            = ''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor]]''
|prev              = Unearthly Things (comic story)
|prev              = Unearthly Things (comic story)
|next              = TBA
|next              = Relative Dimensions (comic story)
}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the sixth story of the ''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor]]'' comic strip series published in [[2015 (releases)|2015]].
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the sixth story of the ''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor]]'' comic story series published in [[2015 (releases)|2015]].


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
It took everything the Doctor had to defeat a SINGLE Hyperion – a mad and ancient living star that had been sealed away for millennia by the Time Lords. Now Hyperion tombs are opening all across the cosmos, with one awakening on the very edge of the solar system – with vengeance in its heart... How can the Doctor and Clara hope to stop the fury of the Hyperions from consuming Earth?!
It took everything the Doctor had to defeat a SINGLE Hyperion – a mad and ancient living star that had been sealed away for millennia by the Time Lords. Now Hyperion tombs are opening all across the cosmos, with one awakening on the very edge of the solar system – with vengeance in its heart... How can the Doctor and Clara hope to stop the fury of the Hyperions from consuming Earth?!


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
=== Part one ===
=== Part one ===
On the [[International Space Station]], Cory complains to Jay in Houston about his fellow astronauts singing. An alarm goes off. Quinn tells Major Weir there are two suns in the sky, and one is coming towards them. She tries evasive maneuvers, but the object follows and collides with the station, destroying it and killing the crew.
On the [[International Space Station]], Cory complains to Jay in [[Houston]] about his fellow [[astronaut]]s [[singing]]. An alarm goes off. Quinn tells Major Weir there are two [[Star|suns]] in the sky, and one is coming towards them. She tries evasive manoeuvres, but the object follows and collides with the station, destroying it and killing the crew.


In the [[Lake District]], the object lands atop a fisherman's boat in Windermere. [[Kate Stewart]] briefs the cabinet, and informs them helicopters have been sent to the area. They find the nearby towns destroyed and the lake completely evaporated, leaving an alien ship. The ship shoots down the helicopters. Ground troops are similarly destroyed. In the briefing room, a signal comes in on all channels: "Hyperios Rises".
In the [[Lake District]], the object lands atop a fisherman's [[boat]] in Windermere. [[Kate Stewart]] briefs the cabinet, and informs them helicopters have been sent to the area. They find the nearby towns destroyed and the lake completely evaporated, leaving an alien ship. The ship shoots down the helicopters. Ground troops are similarly destroyed. In the briefing room, a signal comes in on all channels: "Hyperios Rises".


The [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] land in [[London]], but the streets are empty and everything is scorched. Clara doesn't believe they're in [[2015]] until the Doctor points out the Gherkin and the Shard. At [[Westminster Abbey]], the pair accidentally separate. Clara goes inside, and runs into a man with an axe.  
The [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] land in [[London]], but the streets are empty and everything is scorched. Clara doesn't believe they're in [[2015]] until the Doctor points out the [[The Gherkin|Gherkin]] and the [[Shard]]. At [[Westminster Abbey]], the pair accidentally separate. Clara goes inside, and runs into a [[Firefighter|fireman]] with an [[axe]].


Outside, the Doctor sonics the dust and finds it has human DNA. A medical student points a gun at him, but the Doctor quickly disarms him. All of a sudden, the dust begins to stir, and grabs the student.
Outside, the Doctor [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonics]] the dust and finds it has [[human]] [[DNA]]. A medical student points a gun at him, but the Doctor quickly disarms him. All of a sudden, the dust begins to stir, and grabs the student.


Clara sneaks up on the man with the axe and kicks him in the groin. She is attacked by a dust creature, but the man smashes it with the axe. He introduces himself as Sam and tells her about [[the Scorched]], those who were burned first but didn't die.
Clara sneaks up on the man with the axe and kicks him in the groin. She is attacked by a dust creature, but the man smashes it with the axe. He introduces himself as Sam and tells her about [[the Scorched]], those who were burned first but didn't die.


Back outside, the Doctor faces an army of the Scorched, chanting "Burn!"
Back outside the Abbey, the Doctor faces an army of the Scorched, chanting "Burn!"


=== Part two ===
=== Part two ===
''to be added''
Clara and Sam flee the abbey and run over to the Doctor. The horde of Scorched following Clara and Sam converges with the horde facing the Doctor, trapping the three of them in a circle of the [[zombie]]s. As the Scorched close in Sam swings at them with his axe. The Doctor climbs onto a [[Taxi|black cab]] and aims his sonic into the air. He intercepts the regeneration field which is [[Matter manipulation|raising the Scorched]], causing the creatures to [[Disintegration|disintegrate]]. The Doctor then explains that the Scorched's regenerative process was triggered by the presence of nearby [[lifeform]]s, himself, Sam and Clara. He then asks Sam what [[evil]] is walking the Earth. Sam tells the Doctor to turn around, and when the Doctor and Clara do so they see a Hyperion coming towards them. It bellows "[[Hyperios]] rises, and [[N-Space|the universe]] falls".
 
The Hyperion offers to kill the Doctor quickly if he can explain how he killed the Scorched. The Doctor declines, opting instead to attack the Hyperion with his sonic. While the creature is down the three run, and shelter behind a car when it throws a [[fire]]ball at them. The car explodes, and when the Hyperion approaches and sees no trace of the Doctor, Clara or Sam it tells Hyperios Command that the humans have been immolated. Unbeknownst to the Hyperion, the Doctor, Clara and Sam have clambered into the [[London sewers|sewer]] below.
 
As they walk through the sewers, Sam recalls the day of the Hyperion invasion. He remembers being sent to tackle a blaze in London's [[East End]], which he believed was caused by a [[Aeroplane|plane]] crash, only to find himself facing an army of Hyperions. Over the following days, the Hyperions defeated the [[police]] and [[army]], and their charred remains became the Scorched. Sam, Clara and the Doctor then arrive in an [[London Underground|Underground]] [[station]] which is packed with people in [[sleeping bag]]s. This station is then revealed to be [[King's Cross tube station|King's Cross and St. Pancras]].
 
Kate Stewart arrives with some [[UNIT]] [[soldier]]s and tells the sheltering people that they've made contact with other survivors around the globe, and are developing [[weapon]]s which should be effective against the Hyperions. A man in the crowd then heckles Kate, criticising UNIT's response to the invasion and saying that their hostility is what caused the Hyperions to attack. The Doctor shuts this man down, calling him [[Arrogance|arrogant]] and deducing that he must be a [[politician]]. The man introduces himself as Martyn Grove, [[Minister for Public Hygiene]], and insists that he should take charge as the most senior official present. Kate then corrects him, introducing the Doctor as the [[President of Earth]]. The Doctor, now in charge, tells Sam to [[Decapitation|behead]] Martyn. After a pause, the Doctor says this was a joke. When Clara asks the Doctor to say something comforting to the people he is now in charge of he declines, and then appoints Clara [[Minister of Hugs]].
 
Kate asks the Doctor to tell them everything he knows about the Hyperions. He explains that they are a race of [[living]] [[Star|suns]] who once travelled the universe enlightening less-advanced civilisations, but have since [[Evolution|evolved]] into [[supernova]]s. Their new burning heat drove the Hyperions insane, and set them on a path of devastation across the universe. He explains that the Hyperions drain the [[energy]] of non-sentient stars using [[fusion-web]]s, using this energy to prolong their own lives, and leaving [[Freezing|frozen]] [[planet]]s in their wake. Finally he explains how the Hyperions were defeated in the [[Great Inferno]], but that a few survivors were scattered around the universe, before telling everyone that their only options are to fight the Hyperions or to die.
 
Sam and Kate tell the Doctor about [[Hyperion firewall|a firewall]] in [[Sussex]], which the Hyperions have created to prevent people travelling to or from the area. Sam mentions the sounds of strange [[machine]]ry can be heard from the other side, even from a large distance. The Doctor then says that that's where they need to go.


=== Part three ===
=== Part three ===
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* [[Quinn (The Hyperion Empire)|Quinn]]
* [[Sam (The Hyperion Empire)|Sam]]
* [[Sam (The Hyperion Empire)|Sam]]
* [[Student (The Hyperion Empire)|Student]]
* [[Martyn Grove]]
* [[Zraa-Korr]]
* [[Dra-Khan]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* [[Chris Hadfield]] was an astronaut on the ISS.
* [[Chris Hadfield]] was an astronaut on the ISS.
* [[Dimitri Yemtov]] sings "[[I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper]]" and [[Lee Jae-Yong]] sings "[[Gangnam Style]]".  
* [[Dimitri Yemtov]] sings "[[I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper]]" and [[Lee Jae-Yong]] sings "[[Gangnam Style]]".
* [[Cory (The Hyperion Empire)|Cory]] refers to [[The X Factor]], Captain [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]], [[Han Solo]], and [[Justin Bieber]].
* [[Cory (The Hyperion Empire)|Cory]] refers to ''[[The X Factor]]'', Captain [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]], [[Han Solo]], and [[Justin Bieber]].
* Kate mentions the [[Tunguska Event]] in [[1908]].
* Kate mentions the [[Tunguska Event]] in [[1908]].
* The helicopters are from [[RAF Spadeadam]].
* The helicopters are from [[RAF Spadeadam]].
* The Doctor observes that [[the Gerkin]] and [[the Shard]] are buildings shaped like "vegetables" and "giant toothpicks".
* The Doctor observes that [[the Gherkin]] and [[the Shard]] are buildings shaped like "vegetables" and "giant toothpicks".
* Clara teaches her first-year class [[tae kwon do]].
* Clara teaches her first-year class [[tae kwon do]].
* The Hyperions have reached a new stage of evolution, known as "Supernova".
* Sam refers to the TARDIS's interior dimensions as being like [[Narnia]], [[Monty Python]] and [[Roald Dahl]].
* Sam refers to the TARDIS's interior dimensions as being like [[Narnia]], [[Monty Python]] and [[Roald Dahl]]. The Doctor claims that Dahl had an even darker sense of humor than himself, only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
* Sam mentions ''[[Fireman Sam]]''.
* The [[Dalek]]s destroyed the [[Atreides system]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* The release information places this story after the ''[[Four Doctors]]'' crossover event and between ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'' and ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]''.
* The release information places this story after the ''[[Four Doctors]]'' crossover event and between ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'' and ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]''.
* Due to a delay, ''[[Relative Dimensions (comic story)|Relative Dimensions]]'', the following story in the series, was published in-between Parts Three and Four.


=== Original print details ===
=== Original print details ===
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* The Doctor points out [[The Shard]] as evidence they've landed in 2015. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'')
* The Doctor points out [[The Shard]] as evidence they've landed in 2015. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'')
* The Doctor uses [[Venusian karate]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'')
* The Doctor uses [[Venusian karate]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'')
* Clara uses [[Tae kwon do]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') and mentions having taught it to her first year students. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'')
* Clara recalls the Doctor's "standy-up cat-naps". ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')
* Clara recalls the Doctor's "standy-up cat-naps". ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')
* Sam wonders if the Doctor would use his [[sonic screwdriver]] to build a cabinet. ([[TV]]; ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')
* Sam wonders if the Doctor would use his [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] to build a cabinet. ([[TV]]; ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')
* Clara claims to be the Doctor's "carer". ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'')
* Clara claims to be the Doctor's "carer". ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'')
* The Doctor is once again elected [[President of Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
* The Doctor is once again elected [[President of Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
* The Doctor expresses a desire to add more roundels to his control room. He eventually would. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')
* The Doctor expresses a desire to add more roundels to his control room. He eventually would. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')
* Clara reflects on having lost [[Danny Pink|someone]] recently. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'' / ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
* The Doctor refers to himself as a "dandy". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'')
* The Doctor compares the horror of the Hyperion invasion to the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')


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The Hyperion Empire was the sixth story of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic story series published in 2015.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

It took everything the Doctor had to defeat a SINGLE Hyperion – a mad and ancient living star that had been sealed away for millennia by the Time Lords. Now Hyperion tombs are opening all across the cosmos, with one awakening on the very edge of the solar system – with vengeance in its heart... How can the Doctor and Clara hope to stop the fury of the Hyperions from consuming Earth?!

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

On the International Space Station, Cory complains to Jay in Houston about his fellow astronauts singing. An alarm goes off. Quinn tells Major Weir there are two suns in the sky, and one is coming towards them. She tries evasive manoeuvres, but the object follows and collides with the station, destroying it and killing the crew.

In the Lake District, the object lands atop a fisherman's boat in Windermere. Kate Stewart briefs the cabinet, and informs them helicopters have been sent to the area. They find the nearby towns destroyed and the lake completely evaporated, leaving an alien ship. The ship shoots down the helicopters. Ground troops are similarly destroyed. In the briefing room, a signal comes in on all channels: "Hyperios Rises".

The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald land in London, but the streets are empty and everything is scorched. Clara doesn't believe they're in 2015 until the Doctor points out the Gherkin and the Shard. At Westminster Abbey, the pair accidentally separate. Clara goes inside, and runs into a fireman with an axe.

Outside, the Doctor sonics the dust and finds it has human DNA. A medical student points a gun at him, but the Doctor quickly disarms him. All of a sudden, the dust begins to stir, and grabs the student.

Clara sneaks up on the man with the axe and kicks him in the groin. She is attacked by a dust creature, but the man smashes it with the axe. He introduces himself as Sam and tells her about the Scorched, those who were burned first but didn't die.

Back outside the Abbey, the Doctor faces an army of the Scorched, chanting "Burn!"

Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]

Clara and Sam flee the abbey and run over to the Doctor. The horde of Scorched following Clara and Sam converges with the horde facing the Doctor, trapping the three of them in a circle of the zombies. As the Scorched close in Sam swings at them with his axe. The Doctor climbs onto a black cab and aims his sonic into the air. He intercepts the regeneration field which is raising the Scorched, causing the creatures to disintegrate. The Doctor then explains that the Scorched's regenerative process was triggered by the presence of nearby lifeforms, himself, Sam and Clara. He then asks Sam what evil is walking the Earth. Sam tells the Doctor to turn around, and when the Doctor and Clara do so they see a Hyperion coming towards them. It bellows "Hyperios rises, and the universe falls".

The Hyperion offers to kill the Doctor quickly if he can explain how he killed the Scorched. The Doctor declines, opting instead to attack the Hyperion with his sonic. While the creature is down the three run, and shelter behind a car when it throws a fireball at them. The car explodes, and when the Hyperion approaches and sees no trace of the Doctor, Clara or Sam it tells Hyperios Command that the humans have been immolated. Unbeknownst to the Hyperion, the Doctor, Clara and Sam have clambered into the sewer below.

As they walk through the sewers, Sam recalls the day of the Hyperion invasion. He remembers being sent to tackle a blaze in London's East End, which he believed was caused by a plane crash, only to find himself facing an army of Hyperions. Over the following days, the Hyperions defeated the police and army, and their charred remains became the Scorched. Sam, Clara and the Doctor then arrive in an Underground station which is packed with people in sleeping bags. This station is then revealed to be King's Cross and St. Pancras.

Kate Stewart arrives with some UNIT soldiers and tells the sheltering people that they've made contact with other survivors around the globe, and are developing weapons which should be effective against the Hyperions. A man in the crowd then heckles Kate, criticising UNIT's response to the invasion and saying that their hostility is what caused the Hyperions to attack. The Doctor shuts this man down, calling him arrogant and deducing that he must be a politician. The man introduces himself as Martyn Grove, Minister for Public Hygiene, and insists that he should take charge as the most senior official present. Kate then corrects him, introducing the Doctor as the President of Earth. The Doctor, now in charge, tells Sam to behead Martyn. After a pause, the Doctor says this was a joke. When Clara asks the Doctor to say something comforting to the people he is now in charge of he declines, and then appoints Clara Minister of Hugs.

Kate asks the Doctor to tell them everything he knows about the Hyperions. He explains that they are a race of living suns who once travelled the universe enlightening less-advanced civilisations, but have since evolved into supernovas. Their new burning heat drove the Hyperions insane, and set them on a path of devastation across the universe. He explains that the Hyperions drain the energy of non-sentient stars using fusion-webs, using this energy to prolong their own lives, and leaving frozen planets in their wake. Finally he explains how the Hyperions were defeated in the Great Inferno, but that a few survivors were scattered around the universe, before telling everyone that their only options are to fight the Hyperions or to die.

Sam and Kate tell the Doctor about a firewall in Sussex, which the Hyperions have created to prevent people travelling to or from the area. Sam mentions the sounds of strange machinery can be heard from the other side, even from a large distance. The Doctor then says that that's where they need to go.

Part three[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Part four[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Original print details[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]