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{{Infobox Organisation
|image   = GeoComTex logo.jpg
|image       = <gallery>
|type   = Multinational corporation
GeoComTex original logo.jpg|1
|bases   = [[The Vault (Dalek)|The Vault]]
GeoComTex logo.jpg|2
|leader = [[Henry van Statten]], [[Diana Goddard]]
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|members = [[Adam Mitchell]], [[Sven (Sven and the Scarf)|Sven]]
|aka        = GEOCOMTEX, Geocomtex Corporation
|size   = Around 300 members
|type       = Multinational corporation
|first   = Dalek (TV story)
|bases       = [[The Vault (Dalek)|The Vault]]
|appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (GeoComTex fictional website feature)|Untitled]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Products (feature)|Products]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Support & FAQs (feature)|Support & FAQs]]''|[[PROSE]]: [[Recruitment (feature)|Recruitment]]}}
|leader     = [[Henry van Statten]], [[Diana Goddard]]
}}'''GeoComTex''' (formerly called the '''Van Statten Corporation''') was the international company owned by [[Henry van Statten]], who employed [[Sven (Sven and the Scarf)|Sven]], [[Adam Mitchell]] and [[Diana Goddard]]. It was located in [[Utah]], near [[Salt Lake City]].
|members     = [[Adam Mitchell]], [[Diana Goddard]]
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|first cs    = Dalek (TV story)
|appearances = {{Appears}}
|clip        = Doctor Who LOCKDOWN Dalek Prequel Introducing Sven...
}}{{dab page|Geocomtex (disambiguation)}}
'''Geocomtex''' was an [[Information technology|IT]] [[solution]]s company owned by multi-billionaire [[Henry Van Statten]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}, {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146}}) Geocomtex later expanded into the production of "cutting edge" [[technology]] derived from alien objects left on [[Earth]], fuelling Van Statten's massive [[wealth]] and even giving him the influence over [[President of the United States|US presidents]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146}})
 
Those in Geocomtex's employ included, but certainly were not limited to: [[Polkowski]], [[Diana Goddard]], [[Danny Simmons|Simmons]], [[Adam Mitchell]], [[Owen Bywater|Bywater]], [[De Maggio]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=147}}) [[Sven (Sven and the Scarf)|Sven]], ([[WC]]: {{cs|Sven and the Scarf (webcast)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) and [[Yevgeny Kandinsky]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) In total, the Utah base had over [[400 (number)|four hundred]] employees. After disposing of Van Statten following [[Battle of Geocomtex|the massacre]] of [[200 (number)|two hundred]] employees by the [[Metaltron]], Goddard took over Geocomtex. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146-147}})
 
Van Statten owned a base near [[Salt Lake City]] in [[Utah]], an underground [[53 (number)|fifty-three]] storey repurposed [[nuclear bunker]], named [[The Vault (Dalek)|the Vault]]. On the fifty-third floor, half a [[mile]] below ground, the [[Exhibit Room]] housed [[Van Statten Collection|his collection]] of alien artefacts. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146-147}})
 
== Name ==
The full name of the company was the "Geocomtex Corporation", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|chaptnum=2|chaptname=The Daleks|page=52}}<!--, {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia}}-->) but was more commonly as simply "Geocomtex". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}, {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146}}, {{cs|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|chaptnum=2|chaptname=The Daleks|page=52}}, {{cs|The Time Lord Letters (novel)|chaptnum=4|chaptname=Coal Hill School|namedep=Welcome Home|page=90}}, etc.) In their advertising and on [[Geocomtex website|their website]], the company's name was stylised as "GEOCOMTEX". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}, {{cs|Products (feature)}}, etc.)
 
One account styled the name as "GeoComTex".{{note|This name appears to be a case of {{w|citogenesis}}; please refer to the [[#Citogenesis?|behind the scenes]] section for details.}} ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Dalek (game)}})


== History ==
== History ==
The organisation was created by [[Edward Van Statten]] in the twentieth century, who used the company to make millions in the armaments and oil industries. When his son, Henry, was fifteen, Henry invested his inherited one million dollars into the electronics, communications and telecommunications industries instead. The switch in industries proved successful and Henry quickly usurped his father to become the leader of the organisation, renaming it GeoComTex. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'')
=== Early history ===
{{section stub|Information about [[Van Statten Corporation]] and any other relevant information from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'' needs to be added.}}
The Geocomtex Corporation ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|chaptnum=2|chaptname=The Daleks|page=52}}<!--, {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia}}-->) was founded in [[1999]] to combat the [[Y2K bug]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Products (feature)}}) after [[Henry van Statten]]'s [[Edward Van Statten|father]] reluctantly signed over the [[Van Statten Corporation]] to him before his [[death]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) While the company originally just specialised in [[Information technology|IT]] [[solution]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}) given that one of Van Statten's father's personal assistants, [[Otto von Donitz]], had taught him to invest his money into the [[telecommunication]]s business, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) the company would expand into "every area of cutting edge technology", utilising scavenged and recovered alien objects left on [[Earth]] to create their [[Technology|technological]] and [[medical]] [[innovation]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146}})
 
In the week following the [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]]'s failed [[London UFO crash|attempt to plunge Earth into nuclear war]] on [[6 March|6]]-[[7 March]] [[2006]], [[Mickey Smith]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}, {{cs|World War Three (TV story)}}, etc.) interviewed Van Statten about his thoughts on [[alien]]s on his conspiracy website [[Who is Doctor Who?]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}) as, by that time, Van Statten had become well-known for his interest in aliens. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}}, {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146}}) Van Statten spoke about how Geocomtex funded his vested interest in the collection of alien artefacts, as well as generously giving Mickey a [[pile]] of Geocomtex [[hardware]] to offer as a [[prize]] for an alien-themed writing competition. Mickey also started advertising Geocomtex on his website. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Henry Van Statten (short story)}})
 
[[File:Support Site & FAQs TRB.jpg|thumb|[[GEOCOMTEX - Support Site & FAQS|A page]] on the [[Geocomtex website]] as of [[Christmas Eve]], [[2007]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')]]
At this time, Geocomtex had [[GeoComTex website|a corporate website]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)}}, etc.) which contained [[GEOCOMTEX - PRODUCTS|a page]] displaying a selection of the [[product]]s they sold, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Products (feature)}}) [[GEOCOMTEX - Support Site & FAQS|an FAQs page]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Support (feature)}}) [[GEOCOMTEX - Recruitment|a recruitment page]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Recruitment (feature)}}) and a [[disclaimer]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)}}) They later had a redesign. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)|ed=2006 redesign}})
 
In [[2007]], the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]'s security system used software from Geocomtex. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Security Bot (video game)}})
 
When the [[Tenth Doctor]] looked up [[H.C. Clements]] on a [[mobile phone]] on [[Christmas Eve]] 2007, he went past two websites when he used his [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] to search the Internet. The first was [[Henry Van Statten]]'s [[interview]] on [[Who is Doctor Who?]] and the second was the FAQs page of the Geocomtex website. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}})


GeoComTex was [[Earth|the world]]'s leading electronics company as of [[2012]]. Also it secretly owned the [[Internet]]. One of the GeoComTex specialised in [[computer|computing]] products. Following disastrous events in [[The Vault (Dalek)|the Vault]], van Statten's assistant Goddard took charge of the company. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')
=== Battle of Geocomtex ===
{{main|Battle of Geocomtex}}
{{section stub|Information from [[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' needs to be added.}}
After arranging Van Statten's [[memory wipe]] and for the Vault to be filled with [[cement]]/[[concrete]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146}}) Goddard usurped Van Statten after the death of the Metaltron. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=146-147}})


The [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]'s security system used software from GeoComTex. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Security Bot (video game)|Security Bot]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Citogenesis? ===
In licensed ''Doctor Who'' fiction and non-fiction alike, the name of Henry van Statten's corporation is consistently rendered as "Geocomtex", with the full-caps "GEOCOMTEX" used for in-universe branding. However, when this Wiki's [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Geocomtex?oldid=55592 page on Geocomtex was created in 2007], the page stylised the name as "GeoComTex", seemingly coining this stylisation. While unconfirmed that this Wiki's earlier, incorrect page was the source of stylisation, it has, in a case of apparent {{w|citogenesis}}, been used in the YouTube description for ''[[Sven and the Scarf (webcast)|Sven and the Scarf]]'',<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y2RZ2mwMR8 ''Sven and the Scarf'' on youtube.com]</ref> in an online bonus chapter of the [[2021 (releases)|2021]] reference book ''[[Dalek (reference book)|Dalek]]'',<ref>[https://obversebooks.co.uk/dalek-a-lost-experience/ ''Dalek: A Lost Experience'' on obversebooks.co.uk]</ref> and in the TTRPG {{cs|Dalek (game)|adaption of ''Dalek''}}.


== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120717063545/http://www.geocomtex.net/ In-universe GeoComTex website via the Wayback Machine]
=== Notes ===
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=== References ===
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Latest revision as of 03:11, 19 November 2024

Geocomtex
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You may wish to consult Geocomtex (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

Geocomtex was an IT solutions company owned by multi-billionaire Henry Van Statten. (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"], The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Geocomtex later expanded into the production of "cutting edge" technology derived from alien objects left on Earth, fuelling Van Statten's massive wealth and even giving him the influence over US presidents. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})

Those in Geocomtex's employ included, but certainly were not limited to: Polkowski, Diana Goddard, Simmons, Adam Mitchell, Bywater, De Maggio (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"147","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Sven, (WC: Sven and the Scarf [+]Loading...["Sven and the Scarf (webcast)"], PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) and Yevgeny Kandinsky. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) In total, the Utah base had over four hundred employees. After disposing of Van Statten following the massacre of two hundred employees by the Metaltron, Goddard took over Geocomtex. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146-147","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})

Van Statten owned a base near Salt Lake City in Utah, an underground fifty-three storey repurposed nuclear bunker, named the Vault. On the fifty-third floor, half a mile below ground, the Exhibit Room housed his collection of alien artefacts. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146-147","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})

Name[[edit] | [edit source]]

The full name of the company was the "Geocomtex Corporation", (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"52","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}) but was more commonly as simply "Geocomtex". (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"], The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, The Secret Lives of Monsters [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"52","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}, "Welcome Home" [+]Part of The Time Lord Letters, Loading...{"namedep":"Welcome Home","chaptname":"Coal Hill School","page":"90","chaptnum":"4","1":"The Time Lord Letters (novel)"}, etc.) In their advertising and on their website, the company's name was stylised as "GEOCOMTEX". (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"], Products [+]Loading...["Products (feature)"], etc.)

One account styled the name as "GeoComTex".[nb 1] (GAME: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (game)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early history[[edit] | [edit source]]

This section's awfully stubby.

Information about Van Statten Corporation and any other relevant information from PROSE: Dalek needs to be added.

The Geocomtex Corporation (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"52","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}) was founded in 1999 to combat the Y2K bug, (PROSE: Products [+]Loading...["Products (feature)"]) after Henry van Statten's father reluctantly signed over the Van Statten Corporation to him before his death. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) While the company originally just specialised in IT solutions, (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"]) given that one of Van Statten's father's personal assistants, Otto von Donitz, had taught him to invest his money into the telecommunications business, (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) the company would expand into "every area of cutting edge technology", utilising scavenged and recovered alien objects left on Earth to create their technological and medical innovations. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})

In the week following the Slitheen's failed attempt to plunge Earth into nuclear war on 6-7 March 2006, Mickey Smith (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"], etc.) interviewed Van Statten about his thoughts on aliens on his conspiracy website Who is Doctor Who?, (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"]) as, by that time, Van Statten had become well-known for his interest in aliens. (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"], The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Van Statten spoke about how Geocomtex funded his vested interest in the collection of alien artefacts, as well as generously giving Mickey a pile of Geocomtex hardware to offer as a prize for an alien-themed writing competition. Mickey also started advertising Geocomtex on his website. (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"])

A page on the Geocomtex website as of Christmas Eve, 2007. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

At this time, Geocomtex had a corporate website, (PROSE: GEOCOMTEX home page [+]Loading...["GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)"], etc.) which contained a page displaying a selection of the products they sold, (PROSE: Products [+]Loading...["Products (feature)"]) an FAQs page, (PROSE: Support [+]Loading...["Support (feature)"]) a recruitment page, (PROSE: Recruitment [+]Loading...["Recruitment (feature)"]) and a disclaimer. (PROSE: GEOCOMTEX home page [+]Loading...["GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)"]) They later had a redesign. (PROSE: GEOCOMTEX home page [+]Loading...{"ed":"2006 redesign","1":"GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)"})

In 2007, the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum's security system used software from Geocomtex. (GAME: Security Bot [+]Loading...["Security Bot (video game)"])

When the Tenth Doctor looked up H.C. Clements on a mobile phone on Christmas Eve 2007, he went past two websites when he used his sonic screwdriver to search the Internet. The first was Henry Van Statten's interview on Who is Doctor Who? and the second was the FAQs page of the Geocomtex website. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"])

Battle of Geocomtex[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Battle of Geocomtex
This section's awfully stubby.

Information from TV: Dalek needs to be added.

After arranging Van Statten's memory wipe and for the Vault to be filled with cement/concrete, (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Goddard usurped Van Statten after the death of the Metaltron. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146-147","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Citogenesis?[[edit] | [edit source]]

In licensed Doctor Who fiction and non-fiction alike, the name of Henry van Statten's corporation is consistently rendered as "Geocomtex", with the full-caps "GEOCOMTEX" used for in-universe branding. However, when this Wiki's page on Geocomtex was created in 2007, the page stylised the name as "GeoComTex", seemingly coining this stylisation. While unconfirmed that this Wiki's earlier, incorrect page was the source of stylisation, it has, in a case of apparent citogenesis, been used in the YouTube description for Sven and the Scarf,[1] in an online bonus chapter of the 2021 reference book Dalek,[2] and in the TTRPG adaption of Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (game)","adaption of ''Dalek''"].

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ This name appears to be a case of citogenesis; please refer to the behind the scenes section for details.

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Sven and the Scarf on youtube.com
  2. ↑ Dalek: A Lost Experience on obversebooks.co.uk
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