The Wreckers (comic story)
Summary
The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith receive a distress call from a small moon and go to investigate. At the same time a ship of horse-headed bipeds called Equinans also begins to investigate the distress call. When both the TARDIS and the Equinan ship near the moon they encounter an irresistible force pulling them down. The TARDIS is able to land safely but the Equinans are forced to abandon ship with only Roppy, the ship's captain staying on board.
Once on the moon, the Doctor and Sarah Jane investigate the source of the distress call only to find that numerous ships from a number of species have unnaturally crashed in the same spot on the moon. They discover the newly crashed Equinan ship and force their way in where they revive the unconscious Roppy. Soon after, the Equinan ship is boarded by Kryllians, a primitive species that possesses weapons and technology far beyond their natural development. Outnumbered, the Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Roppy hide as the Kryllians steal the ship's cargo.
Once the Kryllians have left, the Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Roppy follow them only to fall through a trap door. Becoming the Kryllians' prisoners, they find that the Kryllians have already captured the Equianan crew from their escape pods. The Doctor soon escapes and finds out that the Kryllians are working for the Vogans who intend to make the prisoners slaves.
Hypnotizing one of the primitive Kryllians, the Doctor frees the Equinans who easily overtake the Vogans and begin to escape in their ship. Before the Equinans can complete their escape, however, the leader of the Kryllians discovers the hypnotized soldier and turns on the force field that begins to pull the captured Vogan ship back down to the moon's surface. Luckily, the Doctor knocks out the Kryllian controlling the force field and smashed the equipment allowing the Equinans to escape and signal their fleet. As the Doctor and Sarah Jane leave the moon they see the Equinan fleet approaching the Kryllian moon in order to take care of the problem once and for all.
The Doctor concludes that it is time for he and Sarah Jane to return to Earth for some piece and quiet.
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The Doctor and Sarah Jane are initially unable to understand either Roppy or the Kryllians. No explanation is given as to why their languages are not automatically translated.
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