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'''''The Ancestor Cell''''' was the thirty-sixth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Peter Anghelides]] and [[Stephen Cole]], and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Compassion]] and [[Romana III]]. | '''''The Ancestor Cell''''' was the thirty-sixth novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Peter Anghelides]] and [[Stephen Cole]], and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Compassion]] and [[Romana III]], as well as a 'ghost' version of the [[Third Doctor]]. | ||
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[[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]]'s not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy — [[Faction Paradox]], a cult of [[time-travel]]ling [[voodoo]] [[terrorist]]s — is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the [[Time Lord]]s have a mission for him too... | [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]]'s not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy — [[Faction Paradox]], a cult of [[time-travel]]ling [[voodoo]] [[terrorist]]s — is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the [[Time Lord]]s have a mission for him too... | ||
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* [[Timon]] | * [[Timon]] | ||
* [[Vozarti]] | * [[Vozarti]] | ||
* [[Third Doctor]] ('ghost') | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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* Greyjan was president for three days, between [[2 September]] and [[14 September]] [[1752]]. | * Greyjan was president for three days, between [[2 September]] and [[14 September]] [[1752]]. | ||
* Greyjan is "remembered" into existence by the [[Faction Paradox]]. | * Greyjan is "remembered" into existence by the [[Faction Paradox]]. | ||
* After the TARDIS transforms into the Edifice, the 'ghost' of the [[Third Doctor]] manifests in the console room, generating bone spiders to protect the ship, he and the Eighth Doctor admitting that spiders are important to them in a manner that they cannot define, referencing the Third Doctor's original regeneration ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') before history was changed. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The 'ghost' of the [[Third Doctor]] who features here is intended to be a manifestation of the Doctor who would have existed before the Doctor's unintentional interference in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One]]'' erased the events of ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'' was the first novel to feature both the Faction Paradox and the first mention of the future War, the Enemy and sentient TARDISes similar to Compassion. | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'' was the first novel to feature both the Faction Paradox and the first mention of the future War, the Enemy and sentient TARDISes similar to Compassion. | ||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5]]'' debuted the war-TARDISes. | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5]]'' debuted the war-TARDISes. | ||