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The Dark Path (novel)

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The Dark Path was the thirty-second novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by David A. McIntee. It featured the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield. This novel features one of the earliest encounters with the Master and the Doctor, greatly expanding on their personal histories on Gallifrey.

Publisher's summary

"He's one of my own people, Victoria, and he's hunting me."

Darkheart: a faded neutron star surrounded by dead planets. But there is life on one of these icy rocks - the last enclave of the Earth Empire, frozen in the image of another time. As the rest of the galaxy enjoys the fruits of the fledgling Federation, these isolated imperials, bound to obey a forgotten ideal, harbour a dark obsession.

The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive to find that the Federation has at last come to reintegrate this lost colony, whether they like it or not. But all is not well in the Federation camp: relations and allegiances are changing. The fierce Veltrochni - angered by the murder of their kinsmen - have an entirely different agenda. And someone else is manipulating the mission for his own mysterious reasons - another time traveller, a suave and assured master of his work.

The Doctor must uncover the terrible secret which brought the Empire to this desolate sector, and find the source of the strange power maintaining their society. But can a Time Lord, facing the ultimate temptation, control his own desires?

Plot

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Characters

References

Books

The Doctor

  • The Doctor has not seen Koschei in two hundred years.
  • The Doctor is recognised as a Noble of Draconia.
  • The Doctor and Koschei went to "school" together.

Individuals

The Master

Organisations

Planets

Psychology

Species

  • There is a portrait of the Second Doctor in the palace of the Emperor on Draconia commemorating his help in saving the planet from a plague.
  • The Veltrochni previously triumphed against the Tzun confederacy.
  • The Doctor (in talking about their recent trip to Vortis) refers to the Animus as Lloigor.
  • Epilira is an Alpha Centauran who was a cultural advisor on the ship Piri Reis. Following use of the Darkheart he was removed from existence.

TARDIS

Technology

  • The Darkheart is the technology of the Chronovores (or their technology prior to their evolution to their form as Chronovores).

Theories and concepts

Time Lords

Transport technology

  • "Telefrag" is a Marine Corps term for transmatting somebody into the exact same coordinates as somebody else (the result is "splat").
  • The Doctor turns a recycling plant into a transmat.

Notes

  • While the publisher's summary mentions "Time Lord", the text of the novel does not. This preserves the inner continuity of the first mention of the name in TV: The War Games.
  • Scenes cut from the novel were published in the charity anthology Perfect Timing.
  • The Master was known as Koschei at the Academy according to the novel PROSE: Divided Loyalties, but it is established in this novel that it was an alias that he adopted later and which the Second Doctor doesn't recognise.

Continuity

External links

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