Quarsian Mission (comic story)

Quarsian Mission
Doctor:	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
Main enemy:	Quarsians
Main setting:	Sartor
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::GE Fabbri Ltd]]
Editor:	Claire Lister
Writer:	Jason Loborik
Artist:	Lee Sullivan
Colourist:	Alan Craddock
Release details
Format:	Comic - Part 2 of 3 (4 pages)

Opening narration box

Android troopers have broken into a human colony on the planet Sartor...

Summary

Nadia and the Doctor both use their sonic devices to hold off the android stormtroopers. The Doctor is so impressed by Nadia’s device which uses a proto-anodising quark circuit to maximise the amplication, that he pockets it. The Doctor then takes Nadia for a short trip in the TARDIS to arrive on board the Quarsian craft. Avoiding detection from the Quarsians (clumsy looking (and moving), upright green creatures with eyes extended on stalks), the Doctor uses one of the diamonds which is responding to a massive concentration of Zortron energy by glowing to follow a trail to the engine room. The engine room stores a huge amount of Zortron Energy, powerful but bulky it could be used to power an entire fleet of ships. The diamonds are needed by the Quarsians to harness this energy. The Doctor climbs to the top of the energy store with a diamond big enough to block the energy inlet which would create a dam and cause a feedback of energy and an overload to the system. The Doctor hurries back down the ladder to where Nadia is waiting, looking to make a quick escape but they are apprehended by armed Quarsian guards who introduce the Doctor to his robot twin who the Quarsians intend to use to infiltrate the colonists base and kill the humans...

ArtistLee Sullivan

Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• Nadia – Lead scientist of the colonists on the planet of Sartor. Her sister Kamini (a Lieutenant in the army), was killed during the first attack by the Quarsians, then duplicated by their android technology. She later shot the duplicate using a handheld sonic disruptor which she had made.
• Quarsians – experts at android construction, from crude storm trooper soldiers to facsimile copies of people.

Original print details

Installment, publication title with page count and closing caption.

• 2/3 Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 37 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED...
• No reprints to date.

Notes

• Supporting the series of collectable Doctor Who trading cards, the magazine title, carried a regular 4 page, individually titled comic strip series of the Tenth Doctor’s adventures.
• Style wise, the artwork and colours were bold and bright reflecting the tone of the magazine and, as with Doctor Who Adventures, it reflected the appeal to younger readers than that catered for by Doctor Who Magazine.

References

• The Battles in Time comic strip often sought to reinforce the Doctor character with that as seen on screen by utilising various ‘props’ used in the TV series. Namely; blue/brown suit, sonic screwdriver, psychic paper and his intelligent glasses.

Continuity

to be added

External links

• Doctor Who: Battles in Time official website, with magazine and trading cards details
• Quarsian Mission at the Doctor Who Reference Guide