Entry 2481/B-3 (short story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story SMW

|featuring        = [[Sleeping guard (The Doctor's Journal)|Sleeping guard]]

|enemy = [[Vorg (species)|Vorgs]]

|illustrator      = [[Dave Gibbons]]

|release date      = 11 October 1979

|series            = [[The Doctor's Journal]]

|series2          = ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' prose stories

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a short story which were published in the [[DWM 1|first issue]] of ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]'' as part of [[The Doctor's Journal]] series. The story was accompanied by fully coloured illustrations which were meant to directly tie into transfers included with the first four issues of the magazine.

The Doctor lands on a [[Vorgan Space Platform]], and the TARDIS is captured by the [[Vorg (species)|Vorgs]] as the Doctor escapes into the depths of the complex. The Doctor manages to steal a [[field generator]], and uses this to deflect the Vorgs' laser blasts. Making his way back to the TARDIS, the Doctor is spotted by a squad of Vorgs who attempt to shatter the Doctor's force shield. At that very moment, a fleet of battle cruisers arrive and begin attacking the platform, as they seek to reclaim ships captured by the Vorgs. The ensuing chaos creates enough of a diversion for the Doctor to escape in the TARDIS.

== Worldbuilding ==

* A Vorgan [[Sleeping guard (The Doctor's Journal)|guard]] falls asleep, allowing for the Doctor to nick their field generator.

* The Vorgs utilise a [[Mobile Neutron Cannon]] to shatter the Doctor's shield.

* The battle cruisers come through a [[white hole]] in order to arrive at the Space Platform.

* Being the frontispiece printed on the backside of the front cover, this is remarkable for not only being the first ''Doctor Who Magazine'' fiction in colour, but the first DWM fiction to ever have been printed.

* Entries of ''The Doctor's Journal'', even as early as Issue 1, were printed with blatant gaps in the artwork, where things like ships and even the Doctor were missing. This was done so that those elements could be printed as transfers, to be pinned to the page as suggested in the guide (written in-universe by the Doctor himself).