Altered Status (audio story)

Altered Status
Main character(s):	Jenny, Noah
Main enemy:	The Suits, Cybermen
Main setting:	New Damson
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writers:	Christian Brassington and Matt Fitton
Director:	Barnaby Kay
Music:	Joe Kraemer
Sound:	Joe Kraemer
Cover by:	Oliver Chenery
Release details
Release number:	2.2
Part of:	Still Running
Release date:	11 November 2021
Format:	1 Episode on 1 CD (2nd of 4 stories)
Production code:	BFPDWJENNY02
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-613-0
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Altered Status was the second story in the audio anthology Still Running, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Christian Brassington and Matt Fitton, and featured Georgia Tennant as Jenny and Sean Biggerstaff as Noah, as well as the return of Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Cybermen.

Publisher's summary

On a utopian world, the perfect society toils towards its worthy 'Cause'. But the hard-working Suits are more than they seem, and the Department Head is something else altogether. And when Jenny and Noah scratch the surface, they find silver underneath. The Cybermen are coming...

Cast

• Jenny - Georgia Tennant
• Noah - Sean Biggerstaff
• Nicholas Briggs - Cyberleader / The Suits

References

• Gravity buffers are used to guide the Jenny 8 into a perfect landing aboard the planet.
• The Suits are the cybernetically augmented populace of New Damson.
• Noah is given the life score of nine hundred and ninety-nine.
• All citizens on New Damson must work for "the Cause". It is drilled into them.
• Noah wants a frothy coffee.

Notes

To be added

Continuity

• Jenny and Noah are now aboard the Jenny 8, continuing Jenny's ship naming convention. Noah shows his discontent towards this convention. (AUDIO: Inside the Maldovarium)
• Jenny and Noah have been sent to New Damson upon the recommendation of Dorium Maldovar. (TV: Inside the Maldovarium)
• The Suits are dressed like and speak like Mondasian Cybermen. (TV: The Tenth Planet, World Enough and Time)
• Jenny and Noah are yet again confused when Jenny is named "Gallifreyan", a word she has never heard. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
• New Damson is utopian above ground but the working class live in the squalid conditions below ground, much like on New Earth, as noticed by the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. (TV: Gridlock)
• The Suits sort people into "statuses". Some of those classes are workers and suits. The Cult of Skaro did much the same to the kidnapped slaves in New York. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)

External links

• Official Altered Status page at bigfinish.com