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 |featuring2             = K9 Mark II
 |featuring3             = Valyes
-|featuring4             = Matthias
+|featuring4             = Lukas (Ascension)
-|featuring5             = Slyne
+|featuring5             = Matthias
+|featuring6             = Slyne
 |enemy                  = [[Dalek|The Daleks]]
 |setting                = [[Gallifrey]], [[the Matrix]]
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 == Plot ==
-''to be added''
+In the [[Panopticon]], [[Valyes|Chancellor Valyes]] strikes the [[Rod of Rassilon]] before declaring the results of the presidential election. He declares a recess when [[Romana II|Romana]] suddenly materialises, not knowing where [[Leela]] and [[Narvin]] are and confused as to why there has been an election when [[Matthias]] is [[President of the High Council|President]].
+[[Romana III|Trey]], Leela and Narvin have watched Romana disappear after stabilising the [[Eye of Harmony]] for a time and do not know where she has gone.
+Romana learns from Valyes that Matthias has resigned and is surprised to see [[Slyne|Castellan Slyne]] push past [[Jevon (Ascension)|Commander Jevon]] and expresses his support for Romana becoming President. Valyes, Slyne and Jevon explain that Matthias forcibly quarantined those affected by the [[Dogma Virus]] with [[Shada]] technology, leading to a civil war in which [[the Matrix]] was damaged. Once the virus was contained, he retired and exiled himself to [[the Outlands]], eventually returning as a broken man. Seeing Romana's return as a sign, Valyes decides that she will be the new President, but she is unenthusiastic and believes that whoever becomes the next President will need the support of the [[Lord Cardinal|cardinals]].
+The transduction barriers have failed and the Capitol is falling apart around Trey, Leela and Narvin. They head to the Archives in search of a record of where Romana had have gone.
+In the Panopticon, Valyes proposes that the election is made void and that Romana be reinstated. The cardinals talk amongst themselves, some remembering Romana's presidency as a golden age, and ask Romana to speak. She addresses the cardinals as a citizen and calls for a President who will be able to rise to the challenge of rebuilding [[Gallifrey]], saying that that person is not her and that they need a new leader. The cardinals applaud her and one of them nominates Romana, beginning a chant of "All hail Romana, the once and future President". Romana is not impressed.
+Trey, Leela and Narvin reach the Archive, where Leela pulls from the shadows the figure that she saw earlier and who joined them at the Panopticon, the archivist [[Tallan|Coordinator Tallan]]. He tells them that the Matrix is damaged and shows Trey to the terminal whilst Leela and Narvin realise that they met Tallan on [[Gallifrey (Reborn)|another Gallifrey]].
+Slyne accompanies Romana to the presidential office and Jevon comes to swear his loyalties to her once more. Jevon does not recognise Slyne and suggests that Romana makes the restoration of the Matrix one of her primary aims. She agrees, wondering if the damage has anything to do with the backup copy of the [[biodata extract]]s that they took to [[the Axis]]. When Slyne refers to the Matrix as a virtual world, Romana realises that she arrived here through a [[Matrix door]] activated by her biocode and believes that she is now in the Matrix.
+Trey cannot access the Matrix and has no idea how or why Tallan is here. Her plan had been working, sending Romana through the [[Eighth Door]], but Tallan is not part of it and she orders him to leave. Narvin is no longer sure that Trey is his President.
+Slyne tells Romana that her belief that she is in the Matrix is a delusion, but she does not listen. He leaves and [[K9 Mark II|K9]] arrives, something that Romana sees as further proof that she is in a virtual world. K9 denies this and explains that he escaped from the [[Dalek]]s and has been assimilating and collecting Axis data and found that all [[portal]]s have been closed, information that Romana already knows. He is more than 99% sure that this is the one true Gallifrey, but Romana is unconvinced.
+K9 approaches Trey, Leela, Narvin and Tallan and explains that he was sent by Romana to help them; whilst Romana is on the real Gallifrey, they are all in the Matrix as the exit point of the portal they used was altered by Romana. Trey and Tallan do not exist and are only Matrix projections, Tallan being projected by K9 as he had no biodata to project himself, but K9 has been able to boost his signal since the Eighth Door was opened. No longer necessary, Tallan disappears. The Matrix is beginning to fail as its power is being drawn away and soon Leela and Narvin will die. They hurry to the Eighth Door with Trey.
+Slyne informs Romana and K9, who has returned from the Matrix, that the quarantine system is failing due to the Matrix decay and that the infected are being released. [[Lukas (Ascension)|Lukas]] counts down to the failure of the security doors over a speaker. Jevon is having his [[Chancellery Guard]]s keep the infected back and Slyne tells Romana that she will have to authorise the use of heavy weapons to repel them. Romana refuses to sanction this. She plans to reboot the Matrix using the ancillary data in the backup, but K9 warns that this will overwrite Leela and Narvin. Slyne urges her to do it regardless, but she points out that the backup is inside the Matrix with Narvin.
+''to be completed''
 == Cast ==
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 * [[Leela]] - [[Louise Jameson]]
 * [[Narvin|Coordinator Narvin]] - [[Seán Carlsen]]
-* [[K9 Mark II]]/[[Tallan|Coordinator Tallan]] - [[John Leeson]]
+* [[K9 Mark II]] / [[Tallan|Coordinator Tallan]] - [[John Leeson]]
 * [[Valyes|Chancellor Valyes]] - [[Steven Wickham]]
+* [[Lukas (Ascension)|Lukas]] - [[Scott Arthur]]
 * [[Matthias]] - [[Stephen Perring]]
 * [[Jevon (Ascension)|Commander Jevon]] - [[Scott Handcock]]
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 == Notes ==
-* This audio drama marks the first appearance of the actual planet of Gallifrey in the proper timeline on the series since [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'' in [[August (releases)|August]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]].
+* This audio drama marks the first appearance of the actual planet of Gallifrey in the proper timeline on the series since ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'' in [[August (releases)|August]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]].
-* This audio drama marks the first appearance of K9 on the series since [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Forever (audio story)|Forever]]'' in [[March]] [[2011]].
+* This audio drama marks the first appearance of K9 on the series since ''[[Forever (audio story)|Forever]]'' in [[March]] [[2011]].
+* Although [[the Matrix]] was destroyed in ''[[Warfare (audio story)|Warfare]]'', no mention is made of this in the story and it is said to have been damaged in a civil war during [[Matthias]]' presidency.
 * Valyes is sent to meet the Fourth Doctor and inform him the Time Lords have foreseen a time where the Daleks would threaten the universe, which is a trick by Narvin. However, ''[[A Device of Death]]'' shows the Time Lords monitoring the changes to history around Skaro, meaning their messenger [[Ferain]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') was genuine.