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'''''The Cloud Exiles''''' was a short story published in ''[[Doctor Who Annual 1967]]''. It featured the [[First Doctor]].  
'''''The Cloud Exiles''''' was a short story published in ''[[Doctor Who Annual 1967]]''. It featured the [[First Doctor]].  
== Summary ==
== Summary ==
The Doctor reluctantly dematerialises the TARDIS from Earth, [[2067]], but is amazed to find it rematerialising in a near-identical landscape of grass and clouds. Venturing outside, he soon learns that he has not returned to Earth, as the atmosphere is too thin to breathe. He dons an [[atmospheric density jacket]] and ventures out again to take a sample of a low-lying cloud, baffled as to how clouds can form in such an atmosphere. The cloud is incandescent with energy: it surrounds him and he loses consciousness.
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He wakes to find himself largely paralysed in a laboratory, where several clouds are moving independently and talking. He shouts, and discovers the clouds are hypersensitive to loud noise. One approaches and he sees eyes in it. It explains that it is an [[Ethereal]]. Five eketrons ago, the humanoid Ethereals were turned into living vapour by their rebellious robots, the [[Baggolt]]s. This laboratory contains an epitomiser cubicle that will enable them to turn the Doctor into a mould for new humanoid bodies, a process he will not survive. The Doctor allows himself to be taken to the cubicle, where he is released from his paralysis; he uses his [[signet ring|ring]] to unlock the cubicle, shouts to drive off the Ethereals, then disables the shape-changing machinery.
 
To the Ethereals' surprise, he brushes aside their attempt to kill him, and works on the equipment so that it will return them to their original shapes without the need for a mould. When he is successful, the Ethereal leader, [[Mitzog]], offers him rulership of the planet, which he refuses, but pledges to help the Ethereals bring an end to the Baggolt rebellion. The Ethereals construct Baggolt casings to disguise themselves and the Doctor: they ambush a working party of Baggolts and, impersonating them, gain entrance to the capital city, [[Droog]]. The Doctor has constructed an egolectascope, which disables the Baggolts' alarm systems long enough for Mitzog and him to force entry into the brain-centre building. The Doctor produces rubber suits, protecting the two of them from the electric booby-traps inside. On entering the control room, Mitzog hurls himself on the back of [[Nalog]], Chief of the Robots, and while they are fighting, the Doctor discovers the master panel and switches it from 'Rebellion' back to 'Peace'. Mitzog disables Nalog and promises the Doctor that his name will be enshrined forever in the Annals of the Ethereals.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==

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The Cloud Exiles was a short story published in Doctor Who Annual 1967. It featured the First Doctor.

Summary

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Characters

References

  • The Doctor finds a peace and beauty on Earth that no other planet can offer.

Notes

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Continuity

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