The Architects of History (audio story)

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Publisher's summary

The year is 2044. Earth is enjoying a Golden Age of peace, prosperity and technological advancement… but somebody is plotting to destroy all that. The Selachians, shark-like alien monsters, launch a crippling attack on Earth’s Moonbase, using deadly weapons from the future.

Help is at hand. A police telephone box appears in a Moonbase hangar. A time-travelling hero has returned in the hour of Earth’s greatest need. Now, Elizabeth Klein must fight to save not only the Galactic Reich but Time itself from the mysterious prisoner who has orchestrated these fateful events... the Doctor.

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References

  • In the alternative timeline, 2044 is the 100th year of the Golden Age of the Galactic Reich while Oberst Klein is the director of Temporal Affairs of the Reich.
  • Klein has managed to bring about the defeat of the Sontarans and the Daleks in the alternative timeline. Dalek technology has been integrated into the Reich ships being built at the Moonbase.
  • Klein and Major Richter travelled back in time to the Moonbase in order to arrest a traitor, Karen Montoya, before she had a chance to betray the Reich. They were authorised to do so by a future version of General-Lieutenant Adolf Tendexter, the commander of the Moonbase.
  • In the alternative timeline, the Doctor and Klein first met in his cell on the Moonbase several months earlier. She tells him that, in another timeline, they travelled together in the TARDIS.
  • After gaining possession of the TARDIS, Klein attempted to restore her timeline (which she regards as the original one) but the TARDIS would not allow her to cross her own time track.
  • Klein tells the Doctor that, in 2044, a unified Earth government has eradicated famine, averted wars and repelled alien invasions.
  • Prior to her arrival on the Moonbase, Klein's last encounter with Tendexter in her personal timeline was in 2048.
  • The Selachians are walking armoured sharks who are ruthless and entirely without pity. They were the scourge of their galaxy and it took Klein many months and many trips in the TARDIS to prevent them from conquering the Milky Way Galaxy. In 2044, they had not developed either their armoured suits or space travel. They refer to humans as "plankton." The design of their ships is likewise reminiscent of sharks.
  • In the current timeline, Tendexter was decorated for his role in the Dalek War. In the previous timeline, however, he cracked under pressure when the Dalek fleet arrived at the Moonbase. In another timeline, he reacted in a similar manner when the Sontarans arrived.
  • Richter set course for the Central Records Office in 2144 in order to learn the outcome of the Selachian incursion on the Moonbase. However, the device which Rachel had Sam Kirke place on the TARDIS, anchored it to 2044, triggering the Cloister Bell. It eventually rematerialised 100 metres away from its previous location. The internal dimensions of the TARDIS were torn from its external dimensions, turning it into an ordinary police box.
  • The Doctor remembers Klein stealing his TARDIS on the Vrill colony and time reshaping itself around him over and over again until he found himself in his cell on the Moonbase three days earlier. He has no memory of his alternative self's intentions or actions prior to his consciousness replacing his. Furthermore, he is unaware of the location of his alternative self's TARDIS.
  • Richter's weapon was "built by the finest weapon-smiths of the 31st century."
  • The Moonbase's operations centre is reinforced by 20 metre Dalekanium bulkheads.
  • In the alternative timeline, Rachel was working in a garage on Earth when she met the Doctor and became his companion. Together, they fought the Daleks on more than one occasion, the Sontarans, the Selachians and the Autons. The last time that they fought the Daleks, they threatened the entire universe. He eventually returned her to her old life but ensured that she would be reassigned to the Moonbase within days. Once on the Moonbase, she found that the Doctor was a prisoner and that he had left her a list of instructions.
  • The alternative Doctor provided the Selachian Empire with the technology to reach to the Moonbase and explicit instructions on how to conquer it. He made a deal with the Selachian Supreme Leader that Klein would be turned over to him.
  • In the proper timeline, Dr. Elizabeth Klein became known for her triumphs working for UNIT. Her personality appeared to be the same except that she devoted her talents to the protection of Earth. Upon meeting the Doctor in 1962, she did recognise him slightly despite the fact that the experiences of the alternative Klein involving him had been erased from history.
  • Klein mentions the Doctor's visits to Kenya in 1953 and Colditz Castle in October 1944.

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