Ascension (Gallifrey audio story)
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Ascension (Gallifrey audio story) was the third and final story in the sixth series of Gallifrey and the twenty-fourth and final story over all.
Publisher's summary
Gallifrey Rises...
Romana's sacrifice sees Gallifrey restored to its former glory, but at a terrible cost.
As the Time Lords begin to reclaim their stronghold, Leela and Narvin find themselves trapped in a decaying reality... and only K9 can help them.
As old friends fight to reunite, new threats lie in wait...
Because Braxiatel was right: war is coming.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- Romana - Lalla Ward
- Romana - Juliet Landau
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- Narvin - Seán Carlsen
- K9 Mark II/Coordinator Tallan - John Leeson
- Chancellor Valyes - Steven Wickham
- Matthias - Stephen Perring
- Commander Jevon - Scott Handcock
- Castellan Slyne - Peter Sheward
- The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
Uncredited cast
References
- Valyes is still the Lord Chancellor of Gallifrey.
- Lord President Matthias ordered that all those infected with the Dogma Virus be quarantined in time-locked facilities. This led to another civil war After his orders were carried out, Matthias resigned and went into self-imposed exile in the Wastelands.
- One of the cardinals refers to Romana's presidency as a golden age of Gallifrey.
- Coordinator Tallan is the archivist of the Matrix.
- While in the Axis, K9 catalogued 1,000 different alternative versions of Gallifrey.
- Narvin and Leela are trapped inside the Matrix. Tallan was a construct created by K9 as he could not project an image of himself into the Matrix as he did not have biodata on file in the Matrix's records. He created the Tallan avatar in the image of a Time Lord who died decades earlier in the proper timeline but who was still alive in one of the alternative timelines which they visited.
- In actuality, Lady Tre is a projection of a future Romana created by the Matrix. She gives Leela a message to deliver to Romana: "When the time is right, she'll know we will meet again."
- The Matrix projection, including Lady Tre, was created by a future version of Romana.
- The Dogma Virus was created by the Daleks.
- K9's blaster ray has an accuracy of 98%.
Notes
Continuity
- Romana refers to Shada technology. (TV: Shada, AUDIO: Shada, PROSE: Shada)
- Narvin paraphrases T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men when he says, "Is this how the world ends? Not with a bang but a whimper." (AUDIO: 1963, TV: The Lazarus Experiment)
- Narvin recalls that Tallan was a member of the High Council on the alternative Gallifrey where Leela was appointed Lady President. (AUDIO: Reborn)
- K9 tells Romana that he fled from the Axis when it was invaded by the Dalek taskforce. (AUDIO: Extermination)
- Romana tells K9 that she, Narvin and Leela closed the last Axis portal behind them when they returned to their own Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Extermination)
- Leela refers to Cardinal Slyne being exterminated by the Daleks on an alternative Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Extermination)
- The Dogma Virus was created by the Daleks. (AUDIO: Panacea)
- Narvin sends Valyes to tell the Fourth Doctor to avert the creation of the Daleks. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
External links
- Official Ascension page at bigfinish.com
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