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|name = Sontaran Empire
|leader = [[Sontar (The Infinity Doctors)|General Sontar]], [[Sontaran-Prime]]
|leader = [[Sontar (individual)|General Sontar]]
|affiliation = [[Rutan Empire]]
|affiliation = [[Rutan Empire]]
|bases = [[Sontar]]
|bases = [[Sontar]]
|appearances = [[Sontarans - List of Appearances|List of Appearances]]
|appearances = [[Sontarans - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
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}}The '''Sontaran Empire''' in [[Mutter's Spiral]] was the empire of the [[Sontaran]]s which fought the [[Rutan Host]] in a [[Rutan-Sontaran War|long war]] which lasted millenia ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')
}}The '''Sontaran Empire''' was the large militaristic interstellar [[empire]] of the [[Sontaran]]s in the [[Mutter's Spiral]] which fought the [[Rutan Host]] in a [[Rutan-Sontaran War|long war]] which lasted a millennia.


==Overview==
== Overview ==
The empire had numerous high ranking bodies such as [[Sontaran High Command]] and the [[Grand Strategic Council]]. An elite security detachment of the Sontaran Armed Forces was present in the form of the [[Koda]]. The [[Sontaran Special Space Service]] served a highly trained commando units that were deployed in engagements that required infiltration teams in order to secure a target. The [[Sontaran Medal of Pacification]] was awarded to those soldiers that had achieved 10,000 kills of alien species. The rules of law were governed by the [[Sontaran Military Code]].
The Sontaran Empire had numerous high ranking bodies such as [[Sontaran High Command]] and the [[Grand Strategic Council]]. An elite security detachment was the [[Koda]]. While the [[Sontaran Special Space Service]] served as highly trained commando units that were deployed in engagements that required infiltration teams to secure a target. The [[Sontaran Medal of Pacification]] was awarded to those soldiers who had achieved ten thousand kills of alien species. Laws were governed by the [[Sontaran Military Code]]. The [[Sontaran Anthem]] was the musical piece of the Sontaran Empire, played when regiments were marching. [[Sontaran breeding planet]]s were planets where Sontarans bred their clones.


Positions within the military heirarchy were colour coordinated. Those Sontarans that wore green armour as such were the army's medical and environmental division; one of their duties include the oversight of the cloning vats and the hatcheries. This was because Sontarans prefered a clean death in battle to being patched up. In contrast, members of a ships crew tended to wear blue armour. ([[MA]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm]]'')
Positions within the military hierarchy were colour coordinated. Sontarans who wore green armour were the army's medical and environmental division; one of their duties included the oversight of the cloning vats and the hatcheries. Sontarans preferred a clean death in battle to being patched up. In contrast, members of a ship's crew usually wore blue armour. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm (novel)|Lords of the Storm]]'')


Within the Sontaran Empire, it was the policy to upload the laws of such territory that it had acquired though there was an except when those laws conflicted with the guiding principles of the Sontaran military code. According to this code, anything that was not expressly permitted was considered forbidden. Furthermore, under the laws in the Sontaran Military Code, the death sentence was mandatory for all crimes. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'') One of the highest authorities within the Empire was the [[Sontaran Imperator]].
Within the Sontaran Empire, it was the policy to upload the laws of territories it had acquired, except when those laws conflicted with the guiding principles of the Sontaran military code. According to this code, anything that was not expressly permitted was considered forbidden. Furthermore, under the laws of the Sontaran Military Code, the death sentence was mandatory for all crimes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shakedown (novel)|Shakedown]]'') One of the highest authorities within the Empire was the [[Sontaran Imperator]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'')


==Military units==
== Military units ==
The Sontaran military appears to be divided into several different units, regiments and fleets:
The Sontaran military was divided into several different units, regiments and fleets:


*[[Fifth Army Space Fleet of the Sontaran Army Space Corps]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')
* [[Fifth Sontaran Army Space Fleet]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'')
*[[G3 Military Assessment Survey]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
* [[G3 Military Assessment Survey]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
*[[Sontaran Special Space Service]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'')
* [[Sontaran Special Space Service]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')
*[[Ninth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'')
* [[Ninth Sontaran Battle Group]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'')
*[[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]/[[The Poison Sky]]'')
* [[First Assault Battalion]] ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Mindgame]]'')
*[[Koda]] (MA: Lords of the Storm)
* [[Imperial Sontaran Fleet]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Betrothal of Sontar (comic story)|The Betrothal of Sontar]]'')
*[[Ninth Sontaran Army]] ([[MA]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass]]'')
* [[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'')
*[[Ninth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'')
* [[Special Assault Squad]]  ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]'')
* [[Twelfth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sontaran Games (novel)|The Sontaran Games]]'')
* [[Fourth Sontaran Intelligence Division]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426 (novel)|The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'')
* [[Koda]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm (novel)|Lords of the Storm]]'')
* [[Ninth Sontaran Army]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'')
* [[Eighth Battle Fleet]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Instruments of War (comic story)|The Instruments of War]]'')  


==Ranks==
== History ==
As Sontarans tend to introduce themselves with their full title, a number of their ranks have been mentioned. These are some of those ranks:
In the distant past, the Sontaran Empire was known as the Sontara Warburg. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')


*Space Marshal
In the [[13th century]], the Sontaran Commander [[Linx]] of the [[Fifth Sontaran Army Space Fleet]] claimed [[Earth]] and its satellites and [[moon]]s in the name of the Empire. Despite Linx's death, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'') the claim was remembered by the Sontaran Empire, with Commander [[Skaak]] making a failed attempt to assert that claim in the [[Temporal Offensive]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[War of the Sontarans (TV story)|War of the Sontarans]]'')
*Field Marshal
*Battle Marshal
*Fleet Marshal
*Group Marshal
*Marshal
*General
*Squadron Commander
*Commander
*Battle Major
*Field Major
*Major
*Lieutenant
*Warrior


==History==
During the [[Last Great Time War]] between the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Dalek]]s, the Sontaran Empire made a failed attempt to open up a third front in the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eternity Cage (audio story)|The Eternity Cage]]'')
In the [[13th century]], the Sontaran Commander [[Linx]] of the [[Fifth Sontaran Battle Group]] claimed [[Earth]] and its satellites and [[moon]]s in the name of the Empire ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')


One of the priorities given to Sontaran soldiers is the capture of a [[TARDIS]]. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'')
One of the priorities of Sontaran soldiers was the capture of a [[TARDIS]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') a feat which was accomplished during the [[Sontaran invasion of Earth]] in [[2009]]. [[General]] [[Staal]] of the [[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] anticipated the [[death]] of the [[Tenth Doctor]] at the hands of the Sontaran Empire, only to be destroyed along with his [[Sontaran flagship|mothership]] by [[Luke Rattigan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'')
 
[[Commander]] [[Kaagh]], the sole survivor of the Earth invasion force, plotted to avenge the Sontaran Empire. However, he was defeated by [[Sarah Jane Smith]], who assured him from experience that the Sontaran Empire would last for another ten thousand years. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]'') The shame of this defeat led [[Kaagh]] to leave the Empire and join with [[Mrs Wormwood]] of the [[Bane (Invasion of the Bane)|Bane]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane (TV story)|Enemy of the Bane]]'')
 
After building an army, the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] constructed a series of space fortresses along their border with the Sontaran Empire. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')
 
In [[16087]], Field Major [[Styre]] travelled to [[Earth]], which had been uninhabited for ten thousand years, to assess the strengths and weaknesses of humanity to plan an invasion of the Mutter's Spiral. As they also used [[terullian]] technology, and there was no terullian in Mutter's Spiral, it is possible that the Sontaran Empire left the home galaxy for a while, possibly to find new ways of destroying the Rutans. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
 
== Alternate timelines ==
In [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|a timeline]] where [[Rassilon]] had joined forces with the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], the Sontaran Empire was deemed a threat by the [[Cyberiad]] and, save for Sontar itself, had been destroyed by the Cybermen in the [[24th century]]. Faced with annihilation, [[Sontaran-Prime]] ordered the [[Last Great Sontaran War Fleet]] to recruit the [[Tenth Doctor]] to lead their armies. Managing to claim control of a [[CyberKing]], the Doctor was able to halt the invasion before a [[Cyber-Ark]] converted the planet and felled the Empire. This timeline was later negated through the efforts of a remorseful Rassilon and the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')


Nearing the end of the 10,000 years Earth was uninhabitable due to solar flares, Field Major [[Styre]] traveled to Earth to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Humanity in order to plan an invasion of the Mutter's Spiral. As they also used [[Terullian]] technology, and there is no Terullian in the Mutter's Spiral, it is possible that the Empire life the home galaxy for a while, possibly to find new ways of destroying the Rutans. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
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The Sontaran Empire was the large militaristic interstellar empire of the Sontarans in the Mutter's Spiral which fought the Rutan Host in a long war which lasted a millennia.

Overview[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Sontaran Empire had numerous high ranking bodies such as Sontaran High Command and the Grand Strategic Council. An elite security detachment was the Koda. While the Sontaran Special Space Service served as highly trained commando units that were deployed in engagements that required infiltration teams to secure a target. The Sontaran Medal of Pacification was awarded to those soldiers who had achieved ten thousand kills of alien species. Laws were governed by the Sontaran Military Code. The Sontaran Anthem was the musical piece of the Sontaran Empire, played when regiments were marching. Sontaran breeding planets were planets where Sontarans bred their clones.

Positions within the military hierarchy were colour coordinated. Sontarans who wore green armour were the army's medical and environmental division; one of their duties included the oversight of the cloning vats and the hatcheries. Sontarans preferred a clean death in battle to being patched up. In contrast, members of a ship's crew usually wore blue armour. (PROSE: Lords of the Storm)

Within the Sontaran Empire, it was the policy to upload the laws of territories it had acquired, except when those laws conflicted with the guiding principles of the Sontaran military code. According to this code, anything that was not expressly permitted was considered forbidden. Furthermore, under the laws of the Sontaran Military Code, the death sentence was mandatory for all crimes. (PROSE: Shakedown) One of the highest authorities within the Empire was the Sontaran Imperator. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass)

Military units[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Sontaran military was divided into several different units, regiments and fleets:

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the distant past, the Sontaran Empire was known as the Sontara Warburg. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)

In the 13th century, the Sontaran Commander Linx of the Fifth Sontaran Army Space Fleet claimed Earth and its satellites and moons in the name of the Empire. Despite Linx's death, (TV: The Time Warrior) the claim was remembered by the Sontaran Empire, with Commander Skaak making a failed attempt to assert that claim in the Temporal Offensive. (TV: War of the Sontarans)

During the Last Great Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks, the Sontaran Empire made a failed attempt to open up a third front in the war. (AUDIO: The Eternity Cage)

One of the priorities of Sontaran soldiers was the capture of a TARDIS, (PROSE: The Eight Doctors) a feat which was accomplished during the Sontaran invasion of Earth in 2009. General Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet anticipated the death of the Tenth Doctor at the hands of the Sontaran Empire, only to be destroyed along with his mothership by Luke Rattigan. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky)

Commander Kaagh, the sole survivor of the Earth invasion force, plotted to avenge the Sontaran Empire. However, he was defeated by Sarah Jane Smith, who assured him from experience that the Sontaran Empire would last for another ten thousand years. (TV: The Last Sontaran) The shame of this defeat led Kaagh to leave the Empire and join with Mrs Wormwood of the Bane. (TV: Enemy of the Bane)

After building an army, the New Dalek Paradigm constructed a series of space fortresses along their border with the Sontaran Empire. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

In 16087, Field Major Styre travelled to Earth, which had been uninhabited for ten thousand years, to assess the strengths and weaknesses of humanity to plan an invasion of the Mutter's Spiral. As they also used terullian technology, and there was no terullian in Mutter's Spiral, it is possible that the Sontaran Empire left the home galaxy for a while, possibly to find new ways of destroying the Rutans. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment)

Alternate timelines[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a timeline where Rassilon had joined forces with the Cybermen, the Sontaran Empire was deemed a threat by the Cyberiad and, save for Sontar itself, had been destroyed by the Cybermen in the 24th century. Faced with annihilation, Sontaran-Prime ordered the Last Great Sontaran War Fleet to recruit the Tenth Doctor to lead their armies. Managing to claim control of a CyberKing, the Doctor was able to halt the invasion before a Cyber-Ark converted the planet and felled the Empire. This timeline was later negated through the efforts of a remorseful Rassilon and the Twelfth Doctor. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

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