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| |Species name = Sontaran
| | Name: Sontaran |
| |type = [[Humanoid]]
| | Species: Clone Warrior |
| |aka =
| | Planet: Sontar |
| |affiliation = [[Sontaran Empire]]
| | Appearance: They look rather like potatoes! |
| |origin = [[Sontar]]
| | Weakness: Probic Vent (Back of the neck) |
| |appearances = [[Sontarans - List of Appearances|List of Appearances]]
| | Doctor(s): 3rd Doctor/4th Doctor/6th Doctor/2nd Doctor/10th Doctor/11th Doctor |
| |mentions = <ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[Silence in the Library]]''</li><li>[[MA]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus]]''</li><li>[[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]''</li><li>[[SJA]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon]]''</li><li>[[SJA]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]]''
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| |individuals = [[:Category:Individual Sontarans|List of Individuals]]
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| }}
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| The '''Sontarans''' were a race of belligerent and militaristic [[clone]]s who waged eternal war throughout the [[Mutter's Spiral]] against the [[Rutan Host]]. [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] considered them to be (after the [[Dalek|Daleks]] and [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]) "the most evil force in the galaxy."
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| ==Biology==
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| The Sontarans were [[humanoid]]s with large, bulbous heads and short stocky bodies. They had grey-brown skin and deep set features. Sontarans generally had three digits on each hand (two fingers and a thumb). ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'') Some Sontarans also had vestigial hair, generally in the form of beards, which grew white with age. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'') Sontaran [[blood]] was green. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'', [[SJA]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'') | | .The Time Warrior 1974 |
| | .The Sontaran Experiment 1975 |
| | .The Invasion of Time 1978 |
| | .The Two Doctors 1985 |
| | .The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky 2008 |
| | .The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang 2010 |
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| The Sontarans reproduced by cloning, meaning each Sontaran was nearly identical to each other. There were some instances in variation, such as the number of fingers ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'') or skin colour ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]''). The mass cloning techniques they possessed allowed their hatcheries to produce up to 1,000,000 Sontarans in 4 minutes. ([[MA]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm]]'') All appeared roughly the same age, with the exception of General [[Sontar (individual)|Sontar]], who appeared older. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'') The rare [[Pureblood Sontaran]] had increased status and were higher in the hierarchy. Occasionally, genetic defects would crop up and the afflicted Sontarans would be sent to work in menial labour. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Betrothal of Sontar]]'')
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| | | Commander Linx |
| Due to Sontar's high level of [[gravity]], the Sontarans had great strength and resilience in lower gravity environments like [[Earth]] or [[Gallifrey]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'') Despite this strength, Sontaran muscles were designed for load bearing rather than leverage. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'') They were also vulnerable to [[Coronic acid]], which burnt, or in some cases even disintegrated them. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'') If severely wounded, a Sontaran would enter an [[anabolic coma]]. In most cases, they would then die, but sometimes they would later wake up. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'') They absorbed energy via the [[Probic Vent]] on the back of their necks. This vent was also their crucial weakness, as any sudden contact to the vent would stun them. The penetration of a sharp object into the vent would kill them. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'')
| | Field-Major Styre |
| | | Commander Stor |
| [[Image:St--4b23.jpg|thumb|left|[[Styre]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'')]]
| | Field-Major Stike |
| | | General Staal |
| ==Society==
| | Commander Skorr |
| The Sontarans were a martial species, obsessed with war. The highest honour for a Sontaran was to serve in the Imperial Fleet and to be disallowed soldiering was the most dishonourable fate for a Sontaran. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Betrothal of Sontar]]'') Fighting for other species was an equally dishonourable fate. ([[SJA]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]'') Sontarans did not fear death, and they would rather be court-martialled than show pain to others. They considered it honourable to face battle open skinned, without a helmet on. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'') Though they would make alliances with other species, they felt no need to keep them. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'') Their idea of a dishonourable and shameful death was to die peacefully, and the family of a Sontaran that died in his sleep would often make up a story to show them dying on the battlefield. An old and sick Sontaran would often sign up for the military so that he could die whilst fighting.{{fact}}
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| Among those Sontarans that possessed five digits on their hands, it was generally considered for such individuals to be placed as intelligence operatives who had enhanced skills as well as instincts. However, it was often noted that these agents had a tendency to be paranoid. ([[MA]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm]]'')
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| Despite being a clone race, the Sontarans still retained the concept of betrothal, which was roughly analogous to ending hostilities by killing your enemy. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Betrothal of Sontar]]'') Within their society, there was also a rigid clan structure all of which had different genetic markers. ([[MA]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm]]'') As well, clans still had great influence despite being a clone species, such as the [[Gunnar Clan]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'') Sontarans were known for Quicksand Wrestling. ([[SJA]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]'')
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| Sontarans used a [[:wikipedia:Senary|Base-6]] counting system. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'')
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| Sontarans generally possessed a chauvinistic attitude towards females, considering them unfit for warfare. They would sometimes insult their enemies by comparing them to women. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')
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| ===Ranks===
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| :''Note that the ranks are listed in presumed order of seniority in relation to Earth armed forces. The precise order is pure speculation.''
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| *Space Marshal
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| *Battle Marshal
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| *Fleet Marshal
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| *Group Marshal
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| *Marshal
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| *General
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| *Squadron Commander
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| *Commander
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| *Battle Major
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| *Field Major
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| *Major
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| *Base Leader
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| *Captain
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| *Lieutenant
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| *Warrior
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| The ranks of individual Sontarans were generally not prominently displayed on the uniform. The Marshal above [[Styre]] sported two large spiky disks on the front of his collar. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'') Commander [[Stor]] wore a larger collar than his troops and had a white, three-pointed crown imprinted on his helmet ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]''), although the crown may well have been the emblem of the Sontaran Empire ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]''). Group Marshal [[Stike]] had white braiding on his shoulders, akin to epaulets. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'') In the early [[21st century]], badges of rank were more clearly visible and consisted of various symbols set into the right-hand side of the front of the collar. General Staal wore five diamonds in a crown-shaped pattern. Commander Skorr sported three diamonds in a similar design. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| ===Forces===
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| The Sontaran military was divided into several different units, regiments and fleets:
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| *[[Fifth Sontaran Battle Group]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')
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| *[[G3 Military Assessment Survey]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
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| *[[Sontaran Special Space Service]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'')
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| *[[Ninth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'')
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| *[[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| *[[Twelfth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] ([[NSA]]: ''[[The Sontaran Games]]'')
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| *[[Special Assault Squad]] - Attached to other units, such as the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'')
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| *[[Koda]] - Military security branch of the Sontaran Armed Forces. ([[MA]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm]]'')
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| ==Technology==
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| :''See also [[:Category:Sontaran technology|Sontaran Technology]].''
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| The Sontarans were reasonably advanced, though all their technology was designed for use in the war with the [[Rutan Host]]. They often used [[Sontaran Scout Ship|spherical spaceships]] and could make advanced robots for various purposes.
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| ===Weaponry===
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| The Sontarans could use and make a wide variety of hand-held weapons, though they usually used the [[Rheon Carbine]], a thin, metallic weapon, which was designed to optimally fit the Sontaran hand. The weapons were used for energy projection and [[hypnosis|hypnotism]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'', [[MA]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm]]'') The Sontarans also utilized [[Sontaran laser|rifle laser]] weapons during the assault of [[2009]], which fired bright beams of red light that could kill a Human without any exterior damage. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| [[File:S2_alien_object_s2_ep02_blaster.gif|thumb|left|[[Kaagh]]'s Blaster]]
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| They also made use of [[Sontaran fragmentation grenade|fragmentation grenades]], which could destroy everything in a certain area. ([[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Legacy]]'')
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| At some point in the future, the Sontarans began plans to develop a device capable of snuffing out entire stars in response to the development by the Rutans to create a planet killing weapon that was able to destroy a world by converting it from matter to anti-matter. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'')
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| ===Transportation===
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| [[Image:Sontaran Ship.JPG|thumb|right|A Sontaran scout ship. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')]]
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| The Sontarans used spherical vessels, which were covered in square plates. They were generally only large enough for one Sontaran. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'') Some had [[Cloaking field|cloaking]] capabilities. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'')
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| The [[Sontaran Flagship|Sontaran motherships]] were similar in shape to the scoutship, but had 4 claw like appendages coming out of the top and bottom. The scout ships were attached to the mothership and could be released when needed. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| Sontaran [[War-Wheel]]s were combat vessels shaped roughly like a bow tie, with two rotating 'wheels' either side of a central spherical core. They were capable of planetary landings. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'', [[DWM]]: ''[[Unnatural Born Killers]]'')
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| When on a planet, the Sontarans would travel by the means of aircraft. These aircraft looked like the bottom half of a Sontaran ship, with seats and controls on the top half. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Betrothal of Sontar]]'')
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| By the [[Early human history|12th century]], Sontarans already used crude [[time-travel]] technology, utilising [[osmic projection]], though nothing comparable to [[Time Lord]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'') In the [[20th century]], they made other attempts to obtain more effective time-travel technology, specifically those of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'')
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| Sontarans adapted teleportation technology using generators situated at the area of materialisation. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| ===Armour===
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| [[Image:Skorr3.jpg|thumb|right|21st century era armour. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')]]
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| Sontarans wore distinctive battle armour, which resembled a thick and bulky grey space suit. Their helmets were dome-shaped and almost featureless except for two eye holes and a small, flat crest running from the forehead to the back of the neck. They generally carried around their rod-like weapon and a [[translating device]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'') During a period in the early [[21st century]] Sontarans had blue, less flexible, armour in a similar design. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| [[Image:St--3u07linxscontroldevice.jpg|thumb|left|A Sontaran control device. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')]]
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| ===Other Technology===
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| Sontarans used two methods of controlling other individuals. They could take over their mind with [[hypnosis]], ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') or control them with devices attached to the neck ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'').
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| The Sontarans were capable of creating around a million clones every four minutes, which allowed them to sustain massive casualties. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'') These clones were fed using the [[probic vent]], which was the Sontaran's only weak spot. These clones were grown in vats and were nourished by [[sezerfine gas]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| The Sontarans could heal their wounds with a device called a [[tissue rectifier]], which was a stubby, tubular device. ([[DWF]]: ''[[Blind Terror]]'')
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| [[Styre]] used a miniature camera and a [[force field]] while studying Humans. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
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| [[Sontaran invasion of Earth|During the mission]] to make [[Earth]] a clone planet, the Sontarans made a [[Cordolaine]] field around themselves that causes metallic copper to expand; when the copper is in the jacket of a bullet, it becomes jammed in the gun's barrel, rendering it useless. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| ==History==
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| ===Early History===
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| In their early history, the Sontarans were split into clans, which would fight amongst themselves. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'') The original Sontarans appeared ganglier and more like [[Human]]s. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Pureblood]]'') The survivors of these civil wars joined forces and set their aggression on [[alien]]s instead. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'')
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| The Sontarans eventually discovered cloning and adapted it to their own use, abandoning normal reproduction. Prior to the war with the Rutans, the clones forced the [[pureblood Sontaran|purebloods]] off-world. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Pureblood]]'')
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| ===[[Rutan-Sontaran War]]===
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| The cloned Sontarans were engaged in a [[Rutan-Sontaran War|war with the Rutan Host]]. During the [[Millennium War]], though, Sontarans and Rutans briefly joined forces. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]'')
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| :''Accounts differ as to the date at which the Rutan-Sontaran war started.''
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| [[Image:Timewarrior ep1.JPG|thumb|[[Jingo Linx]] on [[Earth]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')]]
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| In [[Early human history#13th century|the 13th century]], [[Linx]], a scout, landed in [[England]] and claimed it for the Sontaran Empire. He proceeded to make an alliance with [[Irongron]], a local warlord, and to transport scientists from the [[20th century|late 20th century]] into the past using his osmic projection. He would then [[hypnosis|hypnotise]] them in order to make them work on his ship. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')
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| Later, in the year [[1522]] AD, a Sontaran scoutship crash landed on Earth in [[China]]. As a result of the incident, their hyperspace transmitter was damaged and they required a replacement crystal in order to summon reinforcements as well as take over the planet. There, they formed a partnership with the Abbot [[Hsiang]] and [[Yueh]] who knew them as the ''"bronze men"'' where they used their hypnotic technology to test enhance his fighting abilities. The Emperor of China learnt of the enhanced fighting skills of the monks and came for a demonstration. This was all part of a plan by the Sontarans to kill the Chinese Emperor as he possessed a quartz crystal sufficient to power the hyperspace transmitter and thus placed a hypnotic suggestion designed to turn the monks against the Emperor in order to kill him. However, the [[Fourth Doctor|Doctor]] intervened and had [[K-9]] recorded the trigger words and broke the spell but not before [[Chang]] went into a berserker attack that killed the Sontarans as a result of him hearing the command phrase once. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Dragon's Claw]]'')
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| In [[1609]], along with the Rutans, the Sontarans participated in the summit of military powers throughout [[Mutter's Spiral]] in the [[Armageddon Convention]], which convened in [[Laputa]], a floating island in the sky near [[Venice]]. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass]]'')
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| At some point during the [[20th century]], [[Edgar Nelson-Stanley]] met with the Sontarans. He believed they were "the silliest race in the galaxy". ([[SJA]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon]]'')
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| In the [[1980s]], the Sontaran Warburg investigated the possibility of using [[space-time vessel|time ships]] in order to win the war. At the same point in time they were involved in a battle with the Rutans in the [[Madillon Cluster]]. Neither attempt was successful. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'')
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| [[Image:Comander Stall.jpg|left|thumb|General [[Staal]], during the Earth invasion of [[2009]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')]]
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| In [[2009]], the Sontarans were losing the war against the Rutans. To counter this, the [[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] (led by General [[Staal]]) made plans to convert [[Earth]] into a cloning world, and carried them out with the help of [[Luke Rattigan]]. The Sontarans used a form of hypnosis on the workers of the [[ATMOS]] factory, forcing them to start shipping out devices that contained gases poisonous to humans, contained inside plates attached to the [[Sat-nav]]s they sold. When [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] attempted to meddle, the Sontarans activated all the devices already deployed in cars, releasing the poison gas and choking people nearby. The fleet was eventually destroyed by Rattigan. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| Following this attempt, Commander [[Kaagh]] was left as the last survivor of the [[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]] after he crashed to Earth. He used Professor [[Nicholas Skinner]] to bring [[satellite]]s crashing into Earth's [[nuclear power plant]]s. He wanted to take Sarah Jane Smith to Sontar for the Doctor's crime and for her knowledge of the Sontarans. The plan was stopped when Chrissie Jackson disabled Kaagh with her high heeled shoe, but he came round and was forced back to Sontar in his pod. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'')
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| Following this failure, Kaagh became a mercenary for the [[Bane]]. He met Mrs [[Wormwood]] while looking for the remains of [[Horath]] and they agreed to work together. After finding the mind of Horath, he followed Wormwood to Earth, where they took the [[Tunguska Scroll]] from Sarah Jane and kidnapped [[Luke Smith]]. The alliance started to break down when Mrs Wormwood sided with Luke over Kaagh, ending when she betrayed and disabled him. Seeing that he had lost, he dragged Wormwood into the [[wormhole]] containing Horath. ([[SJA]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]'')
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| In January [[2010]], one Sontaran named [[Jask]] was on Earth and was chased by [[Martha Jones]] and [[Mickey Smith]]. He managed to get away and tried to kill them with a sniper rifle but was knocked out by [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| At some point during the [[26th century]], the Sontarans sent in Commander [[Steg]] to conquer [[Jekkar]] in order to create a buffer around [[Sontar]]. Though he had no difficulty with the [[Human]]s, the [[Jekkari]], led by [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], were able to fight back effectively. The surviving Sontarans destroyed their bases and abandoned the planet. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'')
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| [[File:Shakedown Sontarans.jpg|thumb|right|Trooper, Lieutenant [[Vorn]] and Commander [[Steg]] on the ''[[Tiger Moth]]''. ([[RP]]: ''[[Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans]]'')]]
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| Some time later, an expedition was made to go to [[Sentarion]] and take advantage of the [[wormhole]] connecting it and [[Ruta III]] to kill the [[Rutan Queen]]. Though the Sontarans tried to keep this information classified, a Rutan spy known as [[Karne]] was able to learn that the information had leaked out and tried to return to the Rutans. Commander [[Steg]] was sent in to redeem himself and kill Karne. He was able to track it to the [[space yacht]] ''[[Tiger Moth]]'', where it had hidden in the ship. During the course of his investigations, his soldiers were whittled down by Karne and the Human crew. Eventually, Karne was killed and all the Sontarans were believed to be killed. In reality, Karne was able to clone himself before his death and Steg was able to pull through. ([[RP]]: ''[[Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'')
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| The second Karne was to able escape to Sentarion, followed by [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], his companions and the survivors from the ''Tiger Moth''. Commander Steg was able to follow them with a [[War-Wheel]] and forced the Doctor to open to wormhole to Ruta III. The War-Wheel was sent through, but the Doctor was able to reverse the polarity of the wormhole, meaning the War-Wheel would never get to Ruta III. When Steg tried to kill the Doctor in revenge, a fight began, leading to the death of Karne and the the Sontaran forces. ([[NA]]: ''[[Shakedown]]'')
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| During either the [[25th century|25th]] or [[26th century]], the Rutans destroyed the Sontaran homeworld, [[Sontar]], with [[photonic bomb]]s, though some escaped with the Sontaran [[racepool]]. At the same time, the Sontarans encountered the [[Pureblood Sontaran]]s. Due to the intervention of [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], the cloned and pureblood Sontarans decided to pool their resources and Marshal [[Stave]] promised to remove the Sontarans' memory of Humans from the racepool. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Pureblood]]'')
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| [[Image:sontaranexperiment.jpg|thumb|left|[[Styre]] examines the results of Experiment 5: Fluid deprivation. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'')]]
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| Many thousands of years later, at a time when the Earth had been abandoned for 10,000 years, the Sontarans were separated from the many [[human]] worlds like [[GalSec]] throughout [[Mutter's Spiral]] by a [[buffer zone]]. The [[Grand Strategic Council]] planned to invade the galaxy, but they had to abandon that plan when a scout, Field Major [[Styre]], was killed while trying to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the humans. After this, [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] bluffed, telling the Sontarans that their battle plans had been captured, so they would have to call off their invasion. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
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| ===Undated Events===
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| *The Sontaran mining ship ''[[Betrothal of Sontar]]'' was sent to [[Serac]] as a form of demotion. Colonel [[Snathe]], a pureblood Sontaran, believed that the [[Thanatos]] was located on Serac, but his attempts to find it were unsuccessful and crew became restless and insubordinate. When the [[Tenth Doctor]] arrived, Snathe forced him to find the Thanatos - but when Snathe tried to control it, the Thanatos decided that the Sontarans were stagnant and Sontar needed to be destroyed. Though [[Lerox]] showed that there was still hope for the Sontarans, Snathe was killed when the [[Inuk]] shoved him outside during a [[Silverfire]]. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Betrothal of Sontar]]'')
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| :''When this occurred is unknown, though the Sontarans apparently knew of the Humans at this point and Sontar still existed.''
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| *The [[Carpalian Witch]]'s favourite hunt was when she hunted a Sontaran. Since her pheromonal lure was ineffective, she waited in his ship for 6 weeks until she stabbed him in the [[probic vent]] when he was about recharge. ([[NSA]]: ''[[The Doctor Trap]]'')
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| ===Rassilon Era===
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| :''When these encounters with the Time Lords occurred in unknown, due to the difficulty in dating the [[Time Lord]] stories.''
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| Though the Sontaran [[Linx]], in the [[12th century]], merely considered the invasion of [[Gallifrey]] as a speculative possibility ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]''), the Sontarans, in concert with the [[Vardan]]s did invade, until beaten back by then-[[Lord President]] [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'')
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| During another period of [[Time Lord]] history, the Warburg, led by [[Sontar (individual)|General Sontar]] himself, the Warburg's supreme commander, and the Rutan Host convened on Gallifrey to meet face to face without violence. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'')
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| The Sontarans were also not 'allowed' to fight in the [[Last Great Time War]], which according to General [[Staal]] was the greatest war of all time. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')
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| ==Behind the Scenes==
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| *In the documentary, "Built for War" ([[BBC DVD]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]''), [[Elizabeth Sladen]] credits [[Linx]] actor [[Kevin Lindsay]] with establishing the pronunciation for "Sontaran" that is now generally accepted. Her description of the filming of ''[[The Time Warrior]]'' suggests that Lindsay insisted upon stressing the second syllable over the objections of director [[Alan Bromly]], who wanted to emphasize the first. A similar dispute was later seen on screen in ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]'', with [[Donna Noble]] adopting Bromly's preferred pronunciation and the [[Tenth Doctor]] using Linday's.
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