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'''Project Indigo''' was [[ | '''Project Indigo''' was [[UNIT|UNIT's]] first experimental [[teleport|teleportation]] device, which was reverse-engineered from captured [[Sontaran]] [[teleport pod|technology]]. | ||
The first person to field-test the prototype was [[Martha Jones]]. As the device teleported her to her [[Francine Jones|mother's]] house -- the place she most wanted to be -- it suggests the integration of a neural interface device for determining destination in order to make the technology man-portable. Martha later used the device again to teleport herself to the vicinity | The first person to (successfully) field-test the prototype was [[Martha Jones]]. As the device teleported her to her [[Francine Jones|mother's]] house -- the place she most wanted to be -- it suggests the integration of a neural interface device for determining destination in order to make the technology man-portable. Martha later used the device again to teleport herself to the vicinity of the [[Osterhagen_key|Osterhagen]] base in [[Germany]], where it is last seen discarded by the door of the detonation control chamber. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]''). | ||
The | == Conjecture == | ||
The Dalek massacre of [[UNIT]] personnel around the globe likely resulted in the deaths of Project Indigo's design teams and provided private commercial interests with the window of opportunity to steal the contents of the organisation's extant storage facilities. As a result, the development of stand-alone teleport devices seems to have ceased with attention being turned to close-ended [[transmat]] technology that would eventually culminate in the [[T-Mat]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'') and its successor, the [[Interstitial Mass Transit System]] ([[NA]]: ''[[Transit]]''). | |||
[[Category:Earth technology]] | [[Category:Earth technology]] | ||
[[Category:Transport technology]] | [[Category:Transport technology]] | ||
Revision as of 10:52, 28 February 2010
Project Indigo was UNIT's first experimental teleportation device, which was reverse-engineered from captured Sontaran technology.
The first person to (successfully) field-test the prototype was Martha Jones. As the device teleported her to her mother's house -- the place she most wanted to be -- it suggests the integration of a neural interface device for determining destination in order to make the technology man-portable. Martha later used the device again to teleport herself to the vicinity of the Osterhagen base in Germany, where it is last seen discarded by the door of the detonation control chamber. (DW: Journey's End).
Conjecture
The Dalek massacre of UNIT personnel around the globe likely resulted in the deaths of Project Indigo's design teams and provided private commercial interests with the window of opportunity to steal the contents of the organisation's extant storage facilities. As a result, the development of stand-alone teleport devices seems to have ceased with attention being turned to close-ended transmat technology that would eventually culminate in the T-Mat (DW: The Seeds of Death) and its successor, the Interstitial Mass Transit System (NA: Transit).
