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 : The bigger question is how on Earth did Madame Vastra send an invitation to a being that only exists on a hard drive many centuries in the future on a planet in a galaxy, far, far away. This seems like it would be beyond Vastra's power to do. [[User:Badwolff|Badwolff]] [[User talk:Badwolff|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:46, June 3, 2013 (UTC)
+: In her letter to Clara, Vastra said that the Doctor had told her how to contact Clara. It's possible that he also gave her the means to contact River. That still leaves the puzzle of why he'd pick that point in River's timestream -- after her death in the Library -- for the contact. It doesn't explain, either, how a "data ghost" could manage to take part in a psychic conference call.
+: We know, anyway, that Vastra & co have devices well in advance of present-day human technology, never mind 1890s technology. Jenny used a portable forcefield generator to stop the "ice governess" getting down the stairs in ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'', for example. They were also able to revive Victorian Clara, even though it was only temporary. In the psychic conference call, Jenny remarked that Vastra had "changed the desktop". That's not an expression she'd have picked up in the normal course of life in late-Victorian London.
+: Some of that may be Silurian technology but it looks as if the Doctor has been giving them a helping hand, too. And the '''standard''' Time Lord method of contacting TARDISes across time & space was via the telepathic circuits (seen in ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' but used more in the classic series, when there were other Time Lords to use it). If the Doctor had given Vastra some of that Time Lord telepathic technology, for use in emergencies, it could have been it that Vastra used to contact River. --[[Special:Contributions/89.241.74.123|89.241.74.123]]<sup>[[User talk:89.241.74.123#top|talk to me]]</sup> 12:44, June 4, 2013 (UTC)