UK-201

The UK-201, (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201) or Astra Nine, (PROSE: The Rescue) was a human spacecraft which operated in the 25th century. It bore a Union Flag on its hull.

	Astra Nine
	Human spacecraft
	Earth
	The Rescue
	AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201

Features

The ship had a ship-wide sports channel, which broadcast such events as judo tournaments, featuring beings with two or more arms or legs. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger)

History

The UK-201 left Earth in the year 2493, destined for the planet Astra. Its passengers included Newton Pallister, his daughter Vicki Pallister, and Bennett. (TV: The Rescue) Vicki once recalled that there were no boys her age on the ship. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger)

During the journey, Bennett killed one of the crew members on the ship, later claiming that it was done to save his own life. Consequently, he was arrested. Before Earth could be informed of the crime, the ship crash-landed on the planet Dido. On the planet, Bennett killed all of the other members of the ship and the native Didoans at a meeting between the two peoples, leaving just him and Vicki alive, who was unaware of his original arrest or his subsequent genocide.

Following these events, Vicki and Bennett lived aboard the broken ship. Vicki barely left, using the ship's radio to send out distress signals. Bennett occasionally ventured out in secret to disguise himself as Koquillion, then visit the ship in this guise to confront Vicki and convince her that Bennett was keeping her safe. Bennett rigged the door to his cabin aboard the ship with a tape recorder so that when the door was opened, recordings of his voice saying phrases such as "You can't come in!" and "Go away!" were played. (TV: The Rescue)

After the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright landed on Dido, (TV: The Rescue) by which time Vicki was fourteen-years-old, (PROSE: Byzantium!) they visited the ship and befriended Vicki. When the appearance of two surviving Didoans caused Bennett to fall over a cliff to his death, the Doctor took Vicki away with him in the TARDIS, leaving UK-201 empty. The Didoans then destroyed the communications system on this ship. (TV: The Rescue)

References

Vicki met Tobias in Byzantium in 64, and he reminded her of a man on the ship to Dido. (PROSE: Byzantium!)