UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)

UNIT's New York Operation Expansion
Main character(s):	A Highway, A. Frederick
Main setting:	England, 12 February 2005
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC
Writer:	BBC webteam
Release details
Genre:	Science fiction
Release date:	18 April 2005
Website:	U.N.I.T.
Format:	Online short story
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UNIT's New York Operation Expansion, prefixed as PRESS STATEMENT: UNIT’s New York Operation Expansion on the story's page, was the fourth short story exclusively published on the U.N.I.T. website on 18 April 2005 by the BBC webteam. UNIT's New York Operation Expansion was the third release in the UNIT Press Briefings series of in-universe press briefings.

Plot

In a press briefing embargoed until 08:00 on 31 March 2005, filed by Staff Sergeant A. Frederick, it is announced that the recent role Major A Highway has taken at the New York Liaison Office, to coordinate the "pan-territorial" into a "pivotal single site operation". Highway is quoted, stating that he is "thrilled" about the developments, believing it's a "fantastic time for UNIT [...] [and] in the past few years we've played a major part in more traditional threats to national security, but there's been a sudden increase in the interest in our full range of activities, solutions and counter-measures. He believes that his presence in the Ground Assembly is good for briefing personnel and other such matters.

Major Highway reminisces about the previous Major, Major C Jones, saying that the loss of Jones and her colleagues in the Jersey Tollgate Situation was a shock to UNIT, and believes it is impossible to replace her, so Highway is thankful that a new system is being implemented.

Characters

• Major A Highway
• Staff Sergeant A. Frederick
• Major C Jones

Worldbuilding

• to be added

Notes

• The UNIT Press Briefings hub page dates the story to 12 February 2005.
• The catalyst of the events of the story, being the Jersey Tollgate Situation, is a joke at the expense of the New Jersey Turnpike, an infamous toll road in New Jersey. It is thus implied that the deaths of the UNIT personnel there were caused by raucous drivers.

Continuity

• In the 1990s, UNIT's American divisions included UNIT ONE and UNIT THREE. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
• The concept of a UNIT base in New York City was later expanded on in TV: The Stolen Earth, with Martha Jones being seen to be working for them during the 21st century Dalek invasion.

External links

• UNIT’s New York Operation Expansion at U.N.I.T. via the Wayback Machine