Halvinor Tribe
The Halvinor Tribe, also simply known as the Halvinor, (PROSE: "No Place Like Home" [+]Part of The Sycorax, Loading...{"page":"10-13","namedpart":"No Place Like Home","1":"The Sycorax (reference book)"}, The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...{"page":"94","ed":"2014 reprint","1":"The Visual Dictionary (reference book)"}, etc.) was one of many warrior tribes of the Sycorax.
This tribe was the one to initiate the Sycorax invasion of Earth on Christmas 2006, before they were defeated by the Tenth Doctor and destroyed by Torchwood.
History
Like all the other Sycorax tribes, the Halvinor Tribe fought for the few natural resources available under the surface of the inhospitable asteroid Sycorax, whilst worshipping the goddess Astrophia, the shamans carrying out rites of blood and sacrifice to try to implore her to give them favour over the other tribes. After centuries of conflict, (PROSE: "No Place Like Home" [+]Part of The Sycorax, Loading...{"page":"10-13","namedpart":"No Place Like Home","1":"The Sycorax (reference book)"}) also many centuries before the 21st century, (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...{"page":"82","ed":"2010 reprint","1":"The Visual Dictionary (reference book)"}) the Halvinor were the tribe to discover the spaceship that had crashed on the asteroid's surface, enslaving the survivors and forcing them to teach them how to use their technology, (PROSE: "No Place Like Home" [+]Part of The Sycorax, Loading...{"page":"10-13","namedpart":"No Place Like Home","1":"The Sycorax (reference book)"}) giving them the "secrets of interstellar craft". (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"78","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) The Halvinors' actions threatened to bring war between the tribes, as many resented and feared their discovery, but the Halvinor shaman persuaded them to unite and exploit the newly discovered universe. (PROSE: "No Place Like Home" [+]Part of The Sycorax, Loading...{"page":"10-13","namedpart":"No Place Like Home","1":"The Sycorax (reference book)"})
Now united, the tribes developed the technology to enable the asteroid to be pilot from world to world, plundering and enslaving the natives. However, after several generations, the mechanism responsible for controlling the travel systems failed, leaving the asteroid in the orbit of a planet in the edges of the solar system. Refusing to regress, the tribes split the asteroid into an armada of smaller asteroids, each fitted with enough technology to enable travel possible, (PROSE: "No Place Like Home" [+]Part of The Sycorax, Loading...{"page":"10-13","namedpart":"No Place Like Home","1":"The Sycorax (reference book)"}) with the Halvinors' ship being fitted with an All Speed Inter-System Type K engine. (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...{"page":"82","ed":"2010 reprint","1":"The Visual Dictionary (reference book)"})
Each tribe's shamans begun technology-augmented lost rites of Astrophia, and they began conquering worlds again, calling upon the armada to take the planet by force if the usual tactics failed. The Halvinor's ship was named (PROSE: "No Place Like Home" [+]Part of The Sycorax, Loading...{"page":"10-13","namedpart":"No Place Like Home","1":"The Sycorax (reference book)"}) Fire Trap, (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"78","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) although, according to one account, this was rather the name of the Sycorax's home planet and that this asteroid was hit independently by the spaceship that brought them space travel. (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...{"page":"94","ed":"2014 reprint","1":"The Visual Dictionary (reference book)"})
Sycorax invasion of Earth
- Main article: Sycorax invasion of Earth
In 2006, (TV: The Christmas Invasion) around the time of Christmas, (WC: Monster File: Christmas) a Sycorax asteroid ship entered the Sol system, (TV: The Christmas Invasion) after the Sycorax learned of Earth and its true value in precious stones, metals, minerals, and slaves. (PROSE: The Final Darkness) When the space probe Guinevere One crashed into them, they used the blood sample for blood control, threatening to kill every human with A+ blood unless they were given half the population as slaves. The Tenth Doctor, who had just regenerated, and his allies Mickey and Rose were inside his TARDIS. The Sycorax picked up a signal from the TARDIS's advanced technology and teleported them to their ship. The Doctor activated the blood control, knowing human survival instincts would break its hold. The Doctor challenged and defeated their leader in a sword duel, forcing the Sycorax to leave Earth and humanity alone.
However, as the Sycorax ship was leaving Earth, Harriet Jones ordered Torchwood to fire at it with a salvaged alien ray weapon, from a Jathaa sunglider, destroying it. (TV: The Christmas Invasion) UNIT then issued a press briefing to humanity where they confirmed the existence of aliens. (PROSE: Alien Life)
Aftermath of the 2006 invasion
The wives of the Sycorax who invaded Earth came to the Sol system to find them, but found only the dust remains. They disguised their ship as an island called Shadow Cay, hypnotising all of humanity into believing it was discovered by Columbus. The Sycorax spent years searching for the ship's black box, the Foraxi Yox, and killed many humans, reanimating and controlling them as zombies, or human abstracts, to find it. In 2009, after discovering from the Foraxi Yox recording that humanity had betrayed the Sycorax, this group of Sycorax had a 747 aeroplane boarded with phage abstracts Gilfane Craw had created take off, intending to spread a virus carried by the abstracts that would stop death but leave humans in agony for centuries.
Donna Noble and Norah stowed away on the plane, and flew it back to Shadow Cay before it could reach London and spread the virus throughout humanity. Meanwhile, the Tenth Doctor overloaded the ship's magma-sculptor by making it attempt to copy the whole of Earth, and set its controls to take off before it exploded. (COMIC: The Widow's Curse)
