Villengard Corporation

Villengard Corporation
Type:	Corporation
Bases:	Weapon Factories of Villengard
Appearance:	Boom [+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"]

The Villengard Corporation, based on the planet Villengard, was the biggest weapons manufacturer in recorded history, (TV: Boom ^[+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"]) home to the Weapon Factories of Villengard. (TV: Twice Upon a Time ^[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])

Villengard supplied all sides in all conflicts for two centuries prior to 5087, including the Anglican Marines. (TV: Boom ^[+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"])

Among the various products it sold in that century were sonic blasters, (TV: The Empty Child ^[+]Loading...["The Empty Child (TV story)"]) Villengard smartmines, vacuum drones, and Villengard Automated Ambulance Units. While engaged in combat situations, the Villengard Ambulances were connected to the Villengard Battle Computer and acted under the Villengard algorithm. (TV: Boom ^[+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"])

History

51st century

At one point, the Villengard Corporation supposedly "ran out of money", and was unable to work further on the Villengard algorithm, ostensibly for this reason. However, as the Fifteenth Doctor would later deduce, the algorithm was designed to introduce the optimum number of casualties for their profit margins.

In fact, Anglican Marines were being sent out into battle with an imaginary enemy, and all resultant deaths in the battlefield were the result of actions taken by Villengard–produced military technology. This angered the Doctor, who sought to take their system down after becoming, himself, immobilised by one of their high-tech landmines on the planet Kastarion 3, on 5 October 5087.

That same day, an A.I. computer virus, built on the personality of perwon, now deceased, who died wanting to protect his daughter, managed to take hold of the Villengard algorithm, taking control at least momentarily. This virus used that power to direct a Villengard Automated Ambulance Unit to save Ruby Sunday, instead of mostly executing others. (TV: Boom ^[+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

• The return of Villengard in TV: Boom ^[+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"] is one of many references in that story to past Steven Moffat scripts, as this was Moffat's first script since his showrunner era ended in December 2017.
  • Before this story, this was simply the name of a planet and a weapons factory, rather than explicitly a corporation.
• This story also introduced a significant change in the pronunciation of the word "Villengard", as a result of Ncuti Gatwa's line reading as the Fifteenth Doctor. Originally, Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor stressed the first syllable (so it sounded like VILL-en-gard), whereas Gatwa now began stressing the second syllable (Vil-LÉN-gard). Later, Steven Moffat would comment, "I approve. We all liked it so much we elected to keep it."