Vega Station (Demontage)
- You may be looking for the 40th century station.
Demontage was a space station popular with gamblers and art lovers of many alien races. It was created after the war between Battrul and Canvine in the neutral zone between the two. The station was run by the Battrulians and tolerated by the Canvine.
Just after the war ended and shortly after the station opened the Fourth Doctor visited the Vega Station and won millions of plaudits in the casino.
Fifty years later the Eighth Doctor, Sam Jones and Fitz Kreiner visited in the 26th century. The Doctor briefly became the station's owner when it couldn't afford to cash his credit chip without going bankrupt. After the chip got trapped in a painting, ownership defaulted to Harris Stabilo. (PROSE: Demontage [+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"])
Irving Braxiatel won asteroid KS-159 from Hayward Denson in a card game on Vega Station. (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle [+]Loading...["Tears of the Oracle (novel)"])
By the 40th century, there existed another Vega Station that fitted this station's description. (PROSE: Cybergeddon [+]Loading...["Cybergeddon (novelisation)"])
Behind the scenes
Less than a year after the release of Demontage, BBV Productions released the Cyberon audio drama Cybergeddon, which was set on a space station also called Vega Station, although it existed in the 40th century and had little in common with the Demontage location besides the name. In the 2021 novelisation of Cybergeddon, which officially brought its events into the Doctor Who universe, vague hints were added that the 40th century version had grown from the humble neutral-zone outpost of Demontage, although they were kept at a minimum due to the copyright conundrum involved.
