The Vault (The Scales of Injustice)
- You may be looking for the vault owned by Henry van Statten.
The Vault contained alien artefacts and other objects of interest taken by C19 from both before and after the formation of UNIT. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice) The Vault was permanently kept dark, as some objects would react with light. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault)
History
The Vault was initially located in the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland. In the late 1960s, the remaining Yeti and technology left over from the London Event were transferred to the vault, including Anne Travers. At that point the quartermaster of the vault was Captain Hawkins. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son) It was formed under the Ministry of Technology, ostensibly to help develop new technologies to enrich British industry. In truth it located and used alien technology for its own ends. It was run by a mysterious man called the General. Leonard Harkness was a scientist who worked there at that time, a scientist who worked with Anne Travers. (PROSE: One Cold Step) By the early 1970s, the Pale Man had taken over, and it fell under Department C19. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice)
The contents of the Vault were moved to the Angel of the North in the 1990s. (AUDIO: The Screaming Skull)
In the 21st century, both Captain Ruth Matheson and Charlie Sato worked there. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault) The Master escaped from the Vault after hypnotising Matheson and Sato into letting him escape in his TARDIS. (AUDIO: Mastermind) Rees later escaped from the Vault after possessing every carcass that had been stored in the Vault, in addition to UNIT soldiers who were sent in to investigate the occurrence. (AUDIO: The Screaming Skull)
Inventory
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Items
- A de-activated Imperial Dalek from the Shoreditch Incident
- WOTAN
- Cyber-guns
- Meteorite globes from the first Auton invasion
- Nestene "blood"
- Plague created by the Silurians
- Mars Probe 6
- Samples of Stahlman's ooze
- Fruit from Western Australia containing mercurial dioxide due to fallen particles of dust from outer space.
- A new strain of Venus fly trap found in Rhodesia, large enough to catch a rabbit or a small dog. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice)
- A deactivated Terravore
- Krynoid pods
- The wreckage from a Sontaran scout ship
- An army jacket, a painting, crystal and a wax cylinder. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault)
- Excalibur
- The Vault was also where the Master was imprisoned when he was captured by UNIT following his escape from the Eye of Harmony. (AUDIO: Mastermind)
- Plastic daffodils
- Rees' skull and music box (AUDIO: The Screaming Skull)
Bodies
- George Ratcliffe
- Melvin Krimpton
- Stephen Weams
- Mark Gregory
- George Hibbert (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice)
Behind the scenes
When Gary Russell, the author of The Scales of Injustice, tweeted Mastermind writer Jonathan Morris, asking him if the Vault in Mastermind was the same as the one from Russell's novels, Morris responded, "Possibly, but it's now been moved to a secret base under [the] Angel of the North". [1] When he realised Russell's C19 Vault was a short distance from the one in Mastermind, Morris stated that "it all fits!" [2] AUDIO: The Screaming Skull later gave the in-universe link for this move.
Footnotes
- ↑ @jonnymorris1973. Twitter (20 July 2013). Retrieved on 4 August 2013.
- ↑ @jonnymorris1973. Twitter (20 July 2013). Retrieved on 4 August 2013.