UNIT website
- You may be looking for the real world U.N.I.T. website.
The UNIT website was the website of UNIT, (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]Loading...["Hoax This! (short story)"]) being active since at least 2005. (PROSE: UNIT History: Fighting the unknown [+]Loading...["UNIT History: Fighting the unknown (short story)"]) It had private operations held on the site — such as a "bulletin board" — despite the website itself being accessible to the public. Its url was www.unit.org.uk. (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]Loading...["Hoax This! (short story)"])
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The UNIT website contained pages on the history of the organisation, (PROSE: UNIT History: Fighting the unknown [+]Loading...["UNIT History: Fighting the unknown (short story)"]) press briefings, (PROSE: The Clocks Go Forward [+]Loading...["The Clocks Go Forward (short story)"], UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident [+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident (short story)"], UNIT's New York Operation Expansion [+]Loading...["UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)"], etc.) classified resources, such as an operations board for UNIT officers to discuss current affairs, (PROSE: Operation London [+]Loading...["Operation London (short story)"], Operation Mannequin [+]Loading...["Operation Mannequin (short story)"], Hoax This! [+]Loading...["Hoax This! (short story)"], etc.) and a visual interface control of many worldwide weapons arsenals. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"], GAME: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (U.N.I.T. video game)"])
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On 7 March, Mickey Smith accessed the secure section of the website, with the password of "buffalo", to fire a missile at 10 Downing Street to stop the Slitheen from destroying planet Earth. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"]) He later shared this password — along with another — to the readers of his website, advising them to use them quickly before UNIT changed them. (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]Loading...["Hoax This! (short story)"])
Soon after, Sergeant Catherine Petts submitted a dossier on Rose Tyler in 2006 — also referencing Mickey's acquisition of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk which contained sensitive, classified information — causing Sergeant J Frinkstein to change the passwords to the secure parts of the website, and while Major Jenny Maguire suggested leaving the passwords be and simply insert misinformation instead, Sergeant A. Frederick seemingly rejected the idea, as she already had more than enough work to do. (PROSE: Rose Tyler [+]Loading...["Rose Tyler (short story)"])
Shortly before the Sycorax invasion of Earth, Mickey accessed the website again and saw the military was tracking the Sycorax spaceship headed for Earth. Later, Mickey and Rose Tyler watched a video message from the Sycorax on the website. Rose noticed the TARDIS wasn't translating their Sycoraxic speech like it usually did for alien languages. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])
When the Tenth Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to speedily scroll past many websites whilst searching for H.C. Clements on Christmas Eve 2007, and one of the websites he went past was the UNIT website; specifically the page that had the press briefing on the London Incident, (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]) as filed on 28 March 2005 by Staff Sergeant A. Frederick. (PROSE: UNIT's Position on The London Incident [+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)"])
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- Main article: U.N.I.T. (tie-in website)
U.N.I.T. was a real website created by the BBC website to coincide with World War Three and several subsequent television episodes. This website included a variety of fiction as well as a single game.
