UNIT HQ, New York City: Difference between revisions

|location       = Manhattan

|type           = Office block

|first mention = UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)

|first         = The Stolen Earth (TV story)

|appearances   = [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Traveller's Almanac]]''

After [[Operation Mannequin]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Operation Mannequin (short story)|Operation Mannequin]]'') and the death of [[Major]] [[C Jones]] and her colleagues during the [[Jersey Tollgate Situation]], Major [[A Highway]] took Jones' former role in the pan-territorial UNIT operations at the [[UNIT's New York Liaison Office|UNIT New York Liaison Office]], and promised that he would reorganise UNIT's pan-territorial activities, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)|UNIT's New York Operation Expansion]]'') such as [[UNIT ONE]] and [[UNIT THREE]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') into a "pivotal single site operation", in part necessitated due to rise "threats to [[national security]]". Major Highway found this thrilling, and the news was documented in a [[press briefing]] filed by [[Staff sergeant|Staff Sergeant]] [[A. Frederick]], released on [[31 March]] [[2005]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)|UNIT's New York Operation Expansion]]'')

By the end of the [[2000s]],{{note|The present day of ''[[Doctor Who]]''{{'}}s [[Series 4 (Doctor Who 2005)|fourth series]] is [[Aliens of London dating controversy|not consistently dated]], with [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'' setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in [[2008]], and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'' setting them in about [[April]] to [[June]] [[2009]].}} UNIT indeed had centralised its activities to a major UNIT site, located in a [[skyscraper]]. [[Experiment]]s like [[Project Indigo]] were carried out there. At the time the base was overseen by Lieutenant-General Sanchez.

Following Earth's removal from normal space, it was a prime target for the [[Dalek]]s during the [[War in the Medusa Cascade]]. Many of the base's personnel were exterminated in this attack, including Sanchez himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') The New York offices were targeted by the Daleks because of the presence of Martha Jones, who was recognised as one of the [[Children of Time]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT History (short story)|UNIT History]]'')

Later, sometime in the mid-[[2010s]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] sent a message on his [[sonic screwdriver]] to UNIT HQ instructing them to do a clean up of any suspicious items being sold at the [[Ebonite Rooms]] in the [[Rockefeller Center]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fountains of Forever (comic story)|The Fountains of Forever]]'')

The facility had a war room and an international co-ordination centre housed in the war room. It also had ample scientific facilities to house [[Project Indigo]] and other scientific facilities and support staff for projects such as the [[Osterhagen Project]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')

Personnel included [[Major]] [[A Highway]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)|UNIT's New York Operation Expansion]]'') Lt General [[Sanchez]], medical director for [[Project Indigo]] [[Martha Jones]], [[Suzanne (The Stolen Earth)|Suzanne]], [[Jalandra]], [[DaCosta]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') and [[Wikowsky]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Travellers' Almanac]]'')

* The entry for [[Sanchez|Sanchez, General]] in ''[[Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia]]'' refers to the UNIT base as the "New York headquarters". The entry for UNIT capitalises the name, calling it the "New York Headquarters". The same entry also refers to the base as "UNIT's New York HQ".

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