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}}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a companion of the [[Seventh Doctor]]. She inhabited the Black TARDIS, as did [[Sally Morgan]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
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'''Lysandra Aristedes''' was a [[companion]] of the [[Seventh Doctor]].
 
Code-named '''Perseus''', Aristedes worked for [[C19]] before joining the Doctor and [[Sally Morgan]] on their crusade against the [[Elder God]]s. After the defeat of [[Weyland]] and [[Fenric]], she left the TARDIS.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
She was born in [[1982]]. As a young child, her favourite television series was {{wi|Jimbo and the Jet Set}}. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'')
=== Early life ===
Lysandra was born in [[1982]]. As a child, her favourite [[television]] programme was ''[[Jimbo and the Jet-Set]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'') She joined the [[British Army]] and rose to the rank of [[corporal]] before being seconded to [[C19|the Forge]] at some point between [[2002]] and [[2004]]. During this time, she hunted down a lone [[grey alien]] in the [[New Forest (England)|New Forest]], harvested a [[Slarvian]] at a peace conference and investigated an alien prison ship which crashed in the [[Lapland]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Project Valhalla (novel)|Project Valhalla]]'')
 
By early [[2008]], Aristedes had been transferred to the [[Internal Counter-Intelligence Service]]. Whilst working there, many of her colleagues at the Forge were killed in the destruction of [[Forge Alpha Facility]]. Although it had been destroyed by [[Sixth Doctor (clone)|a clone]] of the [[Sixth Doctor]], she blamed [[the Doctor|the real Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Destiny (audio story)|Project: Destiny]]'')
 
=== Later work for C19 ===
Aristedes was a [[sergeant]] by [[2015]] and had been [[brainwashing|brainwashed]] by [[William Abberton|Sir William Abberton]] to keep her from being possessed by [[Derleth]] whilst she helped transport the Elder God across [[Europe]] for [[cloning]]. During the mission, she met her future self and [[Sally Morgan]] but lost her [[memory|memories]] of doing so. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Nirvana (audio story)|Project: Nirvana]]'')


Lysandra was seconded to [[the Forge]] as a corporal, sometime between [[2002]] and [[2004]]. During this time, she was a part of the extraction team investigating a crashed alien ship in [[Lapland]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Project Valhalla (novel)|Project Valhalla]]'') By [[2015]], she was a sergeant. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Nirvana (audio story)|Project: Nirvana]]'')
In [[2026]], following the release of [[Contaminant]]s, Aristedes remained in [[evacuation|evacuated]] [[London]] with Abberton and [[Jarrod]]. She met [[Ace]], [[Thomas Hector Schofield]] and the [[Seventh Doctor]], whom she was hostile to before learning that his [[cure]] had been altered by Abberton to kill rather than cure the infected. She activated the [[Destiny Protocol]] and became [[Acting Director]] of C19 under the authority of the Prime Minister before ordering the [[Royal Air Force]] to destroy the infected with [[Distronic explosive|distronic missiles]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Destiny (audio story)|Project: Destiny]]'')


She became the head of the Forge after [[William Abberton|Nimrod]]'s death in [[May]] [[2025]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
=== Travels in the TARDIS ===
==== With the Doctor and Sally ====
[[File:Black TARDIS team.jpg|thumb|left|Aristedes with the Doctor and Sally. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Nirvana (audio story)|Project: Nirvana]]'')]]
Three months after Aristedes became Acting Director, the [[Kai'lizakia]] and the [[Sons of Kai]] attempted to steal C19 technology. The Seventh Doctor and [[Sally Morgan|Private Sally Morgan]] infiltrated Aristedes' troop and Kai-lizakia was killed by the Doctor using a [[Cyber-Planner]]'s [[cerebral cortex]]. The Doctor asked Aristedes if she wished to join them in the [[Black TARDIS]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'') Unbeknownst to any of them, Aristedes was another part of [[Weyland]]'s game against [[Fenric]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'')


The Doctor sent her and Sally on a mission to [[Romania]] in [[2015]]. She knew what the Doctor wanted but didn't tell Sally. She encountwered her younger self, and discovered Nimrod had brainwashed her, so she couldn't be possessed by [[Derleth]]. Although, that didn't work and she had been possessed. However, Lysandra and Sally defeated Derleth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Nirvana (audio story)|Project: Nirvana]]'')  
Aristedes and Sally helped the Doctor fight the [[Elder God]]s, including the [[Great Intelligence]] and [[Animus]]. She was trained to fly the TARDIS, with the Doctor teaching her for a few hours every week. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'') She also taught Sally how to fly a [[helicopter]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Signs and Wonders (audio story)|Signs and Wonders]]'')


She travelled with [[Ace]] in the black TARDIS, whilst [[Hex]] and Sally travelled to [[5th century]] Denmark to find the Doctor. She discovered that he was looking for Weyland Shield, and she helped [[Garundel]] to survive decapitation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
The Doctor sent Aristedes and Sally on a mission to [[Romania]] in [[2015]] where they encountered a younger Aristedes when she was a sergeant, transporting Derleth. The two time travellers were able to defeat Derleth using the [[truthsayer]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Nirvana (audio story)|Project: Nirvana]]'')


When the TARDIS was coloured blue again, she travelled with Ace, Hex, and Sally to the land of [[Fenric]]. She tried to kill Fenric, not knowing that he wouldn't be affected. She was placed in a time storm, flung into Sally's future, where she found that she was trapped by Sally's future platoon. Sally set the truth sayer on her. She knew the codes that would destroy the world via the Higgs Killer; it was Nimrod's secret. She was rescued by [[Peggy Marsden]]. She tried to kill Fenric, but was attacked by the [[Haemovore]]; her faith in the Forge saved her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'')  
At one stage in their travels with the Doctor, Lysandra and Sally encountered the [[Sontaran]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Day (audio story)|The Last Day]]'')


After this happened, the Doctor deposited Lysandra to fight in a war in the African states in her native time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Afterlife (audio story)|Afterlife]]'')
==== With Sally, Ace and Hex ====
Whilst the Doctor was absent, the Black TARDIS was called to save [[Ace]] and [[Thomas Hector Schofield]] from [[Peggy (Elder God)|Peggy]] and [[Albert (Elder God)|Albert]]'s prison. The two sets of [[companion]]s learnt from each other of the Black and White TARDISes and joined forces to find the Doctor, travelling to [[5th century]] [[Denmark]]. Aristedes met [[Garundel]] and discovered that the Doctor had been looking for [[Weyland]]'s [[Weyland's shield|shield]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
 
[[File:Companions Black and White.jpg|thumb|right|Aristedes, Sally, Hex and Ace. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')]]
With the TARDIS restored and made blue again, the four companions travelled to [[Fenric]]'s realm where Aristedes attempted to kill him. She was placed in a [[time storm]] and sent into Sally's future, where future Sally interrogated her for [[William Abberton|Abberton]]'s secrets before she was rescued by Peggy. She faced the [[Haemovore]]s, with her faith in C19 saving her from them, and was the one to open the TARDIS doors to allow Hex to sacrifice himself and defeat Fenric. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'')
 
=== Departure ===
After Hex's supposed death, the Doctor took Aristedes back to her own time. She left to fight in a war in the [[New African States]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Afterlife (audio story)|Afterlife]]'')
 
== Personality ==
Aristedes was a stoic and stolid [[soldier]], with [[Fenric]] describing her as "hollow on the inside". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'') She butted heads with [[Ace]] due to her more rational and calm demeanour. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')


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Latest revision as of 15:13, 28 December 2023

Lysandra Aristedes was a companion of the Seventh Doctor.

Code-named Perseus, Aristedes worked for C19 before joining the Doctor and Sally Morgan on their crusade against the Elder Gods. After the defeat of Weyland and Fenric, she left the TARDIS.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lysandra was born in 1982. As a child, her favourite television programme was Jimbo and the Jet-Set. (AUDIO: Gods and Monsters) She joined the British Army and rose to the rank of corporal before being seconded to the Forge at some point between 2002 and 2004. During this time, she hunted down a lone grey alien in the New Forest, harvested a Slarvian at a peace conference and investigated an alien prison ship which crashed in the Laplands. (PROSE: Project Valhalla)

By early 2008, Aristedes had been transferred to the Internal Counter-Intelligence Service. Whilst working there, many of her colleagues at the Forge were killed in the destruction of Forge Alpha Facility. Although it had been destroyed by a clone of the Sixth Doctor, she blamed the real Doctor. (AUDIO: Project: Destiny)

Later work for C19[[edit] | [edit source]]

Aristedes was a sergeant by 2015 and had been brainwashed by Sir William Abberton to keep her from being possessed by Derleth whilst she helped transport the Elder God across Europe for cloning. During the mission, she met her future self and Sally Morgan but lost her memories of doing so. (AUDIO: Project: Nirvana)

In 2026, following the release of Contaminants, Aristedes remained in evacuated London with Abberton and Jarrod. She met Ace, Thomas Hector Schofield and the Seventh Doctor, whom she was hostile to before learning that his cure had been altered by Abberton to kill rather than cure the infected. She activated the Destiny Protocol and became Acting Director of C19 under the authority of the Prime Minister before ordering the Royal Air Force to destroy the infected with distronic missiles. (AUDIO: Project: Destiny)

Travels in the TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

With the Doctor and Sally[[edit] | [edit source]]

Aristedes with the Doctor and Sally. (AUDIO: Project: Nirvana)

Three months after Aristedes became Acting Director, the Kai'lizakia and the Sons of Kai attempted to steal C19 technology. The Seventh Doctor and Private Sally Morgan infiltrated Aristedes' troop and Kai-lizakia was killed by the Doctor using a Cyber-Planner's cerebral cortex. The Doctor asked Aristedes if she wished to join them in the Black TARDIS. (AUDIO: Black and White) Unbeknownst to any of them, Aristedes was another part of Weyland's game against Fenric. (AUDIO: Gods and Monsters)

Aristedes and Sally helped the Doctor fight the Elder Gods, including the Great Intelligence and Animus. She was trained to fly the TARDIS, with the Doctor teaching her for a few hours every week. (AUDIO: Black and White) She also taught Sally how to fly a helicopter. (AUDIO: Signs and Wonders)

The Doctor sent Aristedes and Sally on a mission to Romania in 2015 where they encountered a younger Aristedes when she was a sergeant, transporting Derleth. The two time travellers were able to defeat Derleth using the truthsayer. (AUDIO: Project: Nirvana)

At one stage in their travels with the Doctor, Lysandra and Sally encountered the Sontarans. (AUDIO: The Last Day)

With Sally, Ace and Hex[[edit] | [edit source]]

Whilst the Doctor was absent, the Black TARDIS was called to save Ace and Thomas Hector Schofield from Peggy and Albert's prison. The two sets of companions learnt from each other of the Black and White TARDISes and joined forces to find the Doctor, travelling to 5th century Denmark. Aristedes met Garundel and discovered that the Doctor had been looking for Weyland's shield. (AUDIO: Black and White)

Aristedes, Sally, Hex and Ace. (AUDIO: Black and White)

With the TARDIS restored and made blue again, the four companions travelled to Fenric's realm where Aristedes attempted to kill him. She was placed in a time storm and sent into Sally's future, where future Sally interrogated her for Abberton's secrets before she was rescued by Peggy. She faced the Haemovores, with her faith in C19 saving her from them, and was the one to open the TARDIS doors to allow Hex to sacrifice himself and defeat Fenric. (AUDIO: Gods and Monsters)

Departure[[edit] | [edit source]]

After Hex's supposed death, the Doctor took Aristedes back to her own time. She left to fight in a war in the New African States. (AUDIO: Afterlife)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Aristedes was a stoic and stolid soldier, with Fenric describing her as "hollow on the inside". (AUDIO: Gods and Monsters) She butted heads with Ace due to her more rational and calm demeanour. (AUDIO: Black and White)