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|appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Flames (short story)|Old Flames]]''}}
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A '''message pod''' was a device used by the [[Time Lord]]s as, essentially, a secure courier for delivery of messages or small objects to a specific recipient.
A '''message pod''' was a device used by the [[Time Lord]]s as, essentially, a secure courier for delivery of messages or small objects to a specific recipient.
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[[Iris Wildthyme]] also had a message pod, but she never bothered to deliver it. The [[Fourth Doctor]] used it to capture Lady [[Huntingdon]]. He used [[Celestial Omnibus|Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS]] to do a [[particle reversal]], pulling her inside the message pod. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Flames (short story)|Old Flames]]'')
[[Iris Wildthyme]] also had a message pod, but she never bothered to deliver it. The [[Fourth Doctor]] used it to capture Lady [[Huntingdon]]. He used [[Celestial Omnibus|Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS]] to do a [[particle reversal]], pulling her inside the message pod. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Flames (short story)|Old Flames]]'')
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A message pod was a device used by the Time Lords as, essentially, a secure courier for delivery of messages or small objects to a specific recipient.

Features[[edit] | [edit source]]

The pod would only open when touched by the person for whom the message was intended. Much like the outer plasmic shell of a TARDIS, the exterior of the pod was nearly invulnerable to outside forces. The message pod would usually pre-program its destination into a nearby TARDIS. (TV: The Mutants) It could be connected to a TARDIS's time rotor to control it. (PROSE: Old Flames)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Time Lords used a message pod to send the Third Doctor on a mission to Solos to deliver a set of ancient tablets to Ky, a Solonian resistance figure. It contained engravings of Solonian writing. (TV: The Mutants)

Iris Wildthyme also had a message pod, but she never bothered to deliver it. The Fourth Doctor used it to capture Lady Huntingdon. He used Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS to do a particle reversal, pulling her inside the message pod. (PROSE: Old Flames)