Lords of the Storm (novel)

Lords of the Storm
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Turlough
Main enemy:	Sontarans, Rutan Host
Main setting:	Raghi, Unukalhai system, 2371
Key crew
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Writer:	David A. McIntee
Cover by:	Alister Pearson
Release details
Release number:	17
Release date:	7 December 1995
Format:	Paperback Book; 22 Chapters, 281 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20460-3
Virgin Missing Adventures
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Lords of the Storm was the seventeenth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by David A. McIntee and featured the Fifth Doctor and Vislor Turlough. It was one of two novels published in 1995 that featured the Sontarans; in fact, this novel served as a prequel to the other novel, Shakedown, which in itself was an adaptation of a spin-off video drama.

Publisher's summary

"They've been fighting this war for longer than man has been walking upright, and they don't take prisoners."

The war between the Sontarans and the Rutans has been raging for millennia. Billions have died and whole star systems have been obliterated in the conflict. Now, finally, one side may have victory within its grasp.

The human colony world of Raghi is crucial to that victory. When the Fifth Doctor and Turlough arrive there, they find a seemingly stable society ruled by a strict caste system. But all is not as it seems. Members of the lower caste are being struck down by a mysterious illness. People are vanishing in their hundreds. And strange objects have been observed orbiting the sun.

Why is Raghi so important to the feuding alien empires? And how high a price will the galaxy pay if the conflict comes to an end?

Plot

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Characters

• Fifth Doctor
• Vislor Turlough
• Nur
• Jahangir
• Sharma
• Ambika
• Chattar
• Karan

Sontarans

• Fleet Marshal Stentor
• Major Karne
• Commander Loxx
• General Skelp

Worldbuilding

• The Tzun were wiped out by the Veltrochni in the 2170s.
• The Tzun Confederacy encompassed ten thousand or more worlds, each holding terullian deposits.
• The Rutan(s) refer to other races in the singular, i.e. the Sontaran, the Human, etc.
• Kamelion can only respond to mental commands and not messages.
• The moon of Betelgeuse V was destroyed by the Sontarans after they salvaged what they had needed from a derelict Stormblade ship.

Notes

• In the book's foreword, David A. McIntee makes reference to his previous story Sanctuary.
• Some of the terms, including the planets and their sun, are named after Indian mythology. At the back of the book is a list of references including the various Sontaran clans, Rutans and the celestial bodies in the story.
• The Sontarans name the class of their ships after distinguished Sontarans, e.g. Linx class cruiser is named after Linx.
• This serves as a prequel to the events in the novel Shakedown.
• The Tzun also appear in the novels First Frontier, Mission: Impractical and Bullet Time.
• The Sontaran homeworld is Sontar. This was the first Doctor Who story to indicate this as the name of the Sontarans' homeworld, predating the first on-screen reference to the name in The Sontaran Stratagem.

Continuity

• Turlough's never met Sontarans before, but he previously encountered them on Samur. (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar)
• The Sontarans have records of the Doctor from their encounters with him in England in the 13th century, (TV: The Time Warrior) Gallifrey, (TV: The Invasion of Time) Samur (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar) and Spain in 1985. (TV: The Two Doctors)
• Turlough mentions Kamelion (TV: The King's Demons) and the fact that the Doctor is the Lord President of Gallifrey. (TV: The Five Doctors)
• The Doctor refers to the destruction of the sonic screwdriver by the Terileptil leader in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
• The Doctor recalls that, during his fourth incarnation, he and Leela encountered the Tzun on Mimoza II. (PROSE: First Frontier)
• The Doctor mentions that he intends to repair the chameleon circuit in the future. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)
• The Doctor tells Turlough that the Sontarans will not be back until the time of the solar flares in approximately 13,000 years. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment)
• The Doctor refers to the Rutan scout as "Fred." (TV: The Ribos Operation, PROSE: Transit)

External links

• Lords of the Storm at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Lords of the Storm at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: Lords of the Storm