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While reeling from a [[Great War (Total Eclipse of the Heart)|great war]] and looking for a beacon of [[hope]], all 197 [[Nation|nations]] of the [[Unified Earth]] contributed some components to the building of a new human colony ship. Because of the large-scale co-ordination of the build, some [[Country|countries]]' contributions cut corners on quality, or did not operate well in tandem with components developed elsewhere. This meant that the ship was doomed to have major technical flaws, and the mission could not succeed. However, since the hopes of humanity were resting on the success of ''Heart''<nowiki/>'s mission, it was decided that the mission should continue. Without the crew's knowledge, the "[[hyperdrive]]" of the ship was in fact a [[Fireworks|firework]] designed to destroy the vehicle and its inhabitants entirely, while giving the appearance of successfuk [[hyperspace]] travel to all onlookers on Earth.  

''Heart''<nowiki/>'s engineer, [[Arnold (Total Eclipse of the Heart)|Arnold]], realised this before takeoff, but didn't raise the alarm because an unsuccessful launch might jeopardise the precarious [[peace]] recently reached on planet Earth. Instead, he sabotaged the ship's [[Engine room|engine rooms]], creating a pretext to eventually bring the ship down to land after it had taken off. However, his plan backfired when [[Captain]] [[Jacobs (Total Eclipse of the Heart)|Jacobs]] and crewmate [[Elena (Total Eclipse of the Heart)|Elena]] [[Vaporisation|died]] while carrying out repairs. The [[Tenth Doctor]] eventually offered to rescue Arnold and [[Danielle (Total Eclipse of the Heart)|Danielle]] from the ''Heart'' before it detonated, but Arnold refused to leave, intending to turn the ship in the opposite direction so that onlookers on Earth would realise the mission had not been as successful as all major [[news]] outlets were claiming. ([[PROSE]]: [[Total Eclipse of the Heart (short story)|''Total Eclipse of the Heart'']])