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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
=== Part one === | === Part one === | ||
Despite being forbidden from visiting her husband without his express permission, the disfigured [[Anahita|Queen Anahita]] sneaks to [[Siris|the Autarch]]'s rooms at [[night]] and has her [[servant]], [[Mira (The Children of Seth)|Mira]], open his [[sonic lock]]. [[ | Despite being forbidden from visiting her husband without his express permission, the disfigured [[Anahita|Queen Anahita]] sneaks to [[Siris|the Autarch]]'s rooms at [[night]] and has her [[servant]], [[Mira (The Children of Seth)|Mira]], open his [[sonic lock]]. [[High Minister]] [[Byzan]] finds them and accuses them of attempting an [[assassination]], sending Anahita back to her rooms and having Mira reassigned to Level 14 with her [[amnesia|mind wiped]] after she fails to divulge any information. The next day, on the Autarch's [[birthday]], Byzan prepares a [[speech]] declaring war on the [[planet]]s outside of the rim on the pretence that they are sheltering their enemy, Seth. | ||
[[Nyssa]] has devised a [[computer program|program]] based on [[probability theory]] and transmits a [[question]] from [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] which is answered by a message from the [[Archipelago of Sirius]] saying "Idra". [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] attempts to materialise the TARDIS at the message's origin, but the ship is held in a [[time-space probability lattice]] and is unable to decide which of the possible [[future]]s to travel into. A [[low-level intelligence drone]] breaks in and scans the [[TARDIS control console|console]], designating the Doctor, Nyssa and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] as hostile intruders and blowing up whilst attempting to calculate the TARDIS's infinite coordinates. The ship gets through the lattice and materialises in the [[Imperial City]] in the [[Sirian Empire]]. | [[Nyssa]] has devised a [[computer program|program]] based on [[probability theory]] and transmits a [[question]] from [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] which is answered by a message from the [[Archipelago of Sirius]] saying "Idra". [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] attempts to materialise the TARDIS at the message's origin, but the ship is held in a [[time-space probability lattice]] and is unable to decide which of the possible [[future]]s to travel into. A [[low-level intelligence drone]] breaks in and scans the [[TARDIS control console|console]], designating the Doctor, Nyssa and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] as hostile intruders and blowing up whilst attempting to calculate the TARDIS's infinite coordinates. The ship gets through the lattice and materialises in the [[Imperial City]] in the [[Sirian Empire]]. | ||
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=== Part two === | === Part two === | ||
Tegan sees the Doctor and Nyssa being [[arrest]]ed and is kept from getting involved by Anahita, who met the Doctor in one of his previous [[incarnation]]s and is the one who sent the message to the TARDIS, "Idra" being her original name. She covers for Tegan by claiming that she is her new servant, gifted to her by the Autarch, and takes her to the [[Imperial Judiciary]] to rescue the Doctor and Nyssa, imprisoned with Shamur. Byzan visits the three prisoners disguised as a [[priest]] and listens to Shamur's story of the battle on the Plains of Ragnarok being a [[hallucinogenic]]-fuelled exercise in which the imperial [[soldier]]s killed one another. He then has [[Albis]], his android [[private secretary]], take Nyssa for interrogation. | Tegan sees the Doctor and Nyssa being [[arrest]]ed and is kept from getting involved by Anahita, who met the Doctor in one of his previous [[incarnation]]s and is the one who sent the message to the TARDIS, "Idra" being her original name. She covers for Tegan by claiming that she is her new servant, gifted to her by the Autarch, and takes her to the [[Imperial Judiciary]] to rescue the Doctor and Nyssa, imprisoned with Shamur. Byzan visits the three prisoners disguised as a [[priest]] and listens to Shamur's story of the battle on the Plains of Ragnarok being a [[hallucinogenic]]-fuelled exercise in which the imperial [[soldier]]s killed one another. He then has [[Albis]], his android [[private secretary]], take Nyssa for interrogation. | ||
Tegan arrives in the [[dungeon]] and kisses the guard with a [[paralysing agent]], allowing her to release the Doctor. | |||
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