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Geocomtex was an IT solutions company owned by multi-billionaire Henry Van Statten. (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"], The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Geocomtex later expanded into the production of "cutting edge" technology derived from alien objects left on Earth, fuelling Van Statten's massive wealth and even giving him the influence over US presidents. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})
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Geocomtex (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
Those in Geocomtex's employ included, but certainly were not limited to: Polkowski, Diana Goddard, Simmons, Adam Mitchell, Bywater, De Maggio (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"147","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Sven, (WC: Sven and the Scarf [+]Loading...["Sven and the Scarf (webcast)"], PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) and Yevgeny Kandinsky. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) In total, the Utah base had over four hundred employees. After disposing of Van Statten following the massacre of two hundred employees by the Metaltron, Goddard took over Geocomtex. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146-147","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})
Van Statten owned a base near Salt Lake City in Utah, an underground fifty-three storey repurposed nuclear bunker, named the Vault. On the fifty-third floor, half a mile below ground, the Exhibit Room housed his collection of alien artefacts. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146-147","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})
Name
The full name of the company was the "Geocomtex Corporation", (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"52","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}) but was more commonly as simply "Geocomtex". (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"], The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, The Secret Lives of Monsters [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"52","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}, "Welcome Home" [+]Part of The Time Lord Letters, Loading...{"namedep":"Welcome Home","chaptname":"Coal Hill School","page":"90","chaptnum":"4","1":"The Time Lord Letters (novel)"}, etc.) In their advertising and on their website, the company's name was stylised as "GEOCOMTEX". (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"], Products [+]Loading...["Products (feature)"], etc.)
History
Early history
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The Geocomtex Corporation (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"52","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}) was founded in 1999 to combat the Y2K bug, (PROSE: Products [+]Loading...["Products (feature)"]) after Henry van Statten's father reluctantly signed over the Van Statten Corporation to him before his death. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) While the company originally just specialised in IT solutions, (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"]) given that one of Van Statten's father's personal assistants, Otto von Donitz, had taught him to invest his money into the telecommunications business, (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) the company would expand into "every area of cutting edge technology", utilising scavenged and recovered alien objects left on Earth to create their technological and medical innovations. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})
In the week following the Slitheen's failed attempt to plunge Earth into nuclear war on 6-7 March 2006, Mickey Smith (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"], etc.) interviewed Van Statten about his thoughts on aliens on his conspiracy website Who is Doctor Who?, (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"]) as, by that time, Van Statten had become well-known for his interest in aliens. (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"], The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Van Statten spoke about how Geocomtex funded his vested interest in the collection of alien artefacts, as well as generously giving Mickey a pile of Geocomtex hardware to offer as a prize for an alien-themed writing competition. Mickey also started advertising Geocomtex on his website. (PROSE: Henry Van Statten [+]Loading...["Henry Van Statten (short story)"])
At this time, Geocomtex had a corporate website, (PROSE: GEOCOMTEX home page [+]Loading...["GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)"], etc.) which contained a page displaying a selection of the products they sold, (PROSE: Products [+]Loading...["Products (feature)"]) an FAQs page, (PROSE: Support [+]Loading...["Support (feature)"]) a recruitment page, (PROSE: Recruitment [+]Loading...["Recruitment (feature)"]) and a disclaimer. (PROSE: GEOCOMTEX home page [+]Loading...["GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)"]) They later had a redesign. (PROSE: GEOCOMTEX home page [+]Loading...{"ed":"2006 redesign","1":"GEOCOMTEX home page (feature)"})
In 2007, the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum's security system used software from Geocomtex. (GAME: Security Bot [+]Loading...["Security Bot (video game)"])
When the Tenth Doctor looked up H.C. Clements on a mobile phone on Christmas Eve 2007, he went past two websites when he used his sonic screwdriver to search the Internet. The first was Henry Van Statten's interview on Who is Doctor Who? and the second was the FAQs page of the Geocomtex website. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"])
Battle of Geocomtex
- Main article: Battle of Geocomtex
After arranging Van Statten's memory wipe and for the Vault to be filled with cement/concrete, (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Goddard usurped Van Statten after the death of the Metaltron. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146-147","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})
Behind the scenes
Name
In licensed Doctor Who fiction and non-fiction alike, the name of Henry van Statten's corporation is consistently rendered as "Geocomtex", with the full-caps "GEOCOMTEX" used for in-universe branding. However, when this Wiki's page on Gecomtex was created in 2007, the page stylised the name as "GeoComTex", seemingly coining this stylisation. While unconfirmed that this Wiki's earlier, incorrect page was the citogenesis of the stylisation, it has since been used in the YouTube description for Sven and the Scarf[1] and in an online bonus chapter of the 2021 reference book Dalek.[2]