Nemesis Express (audio story)
Nemesis Express was the first story in the audio anthology Nemesis Express, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Robert Whitelock and featured Eric Roberts as the Bruce Master, Chase Masterson as Vienna Salvatori and introduced Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter as Passion.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Vienna Salvatori boards the Kairos in search of a stolen gem, and young thief Passion is hiding out and feels like the ship itself is watching her.
Both women are about to be thrown together - and it's no accident. For the ship's Vortex drive has brought the Master back from oblivion, and he has plans for them both.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Although the Kairos's integrity remains at 100% after hitting a pocket of dark time in the Time Vortex, the spaceship's computer detects unbound energy and the Master manifests onboard, killing a navigator who has gone to check on an intake port. Passion, a Triangulum stowing away with Scarden, dreams about the Master, who spends weeks accessing the ship's mind matrix. Eventually, he succeeds and takes control of the surveillance systems.
Vienna attempts to board the Kairos to meet with Brother Thaddeus of the Insah Sect, but Sergeant Kryle does not believe that she has the required permissions and he and the other Sparks attempt to arrest her. She fights her way on board and meets Brother Urmah, a Gakrutian warrior-priest who explains that she has been hired by the Sect to locate Scarden and the Heart of Tiamat gemstone, a mission which he will assist her in despite her initial objections.
The Sparks search for Vienna and, after imprisoning a number of monks for questioning, Kryle's will is conquered by the Master so that he might serve as the Time Lord's agent in the physical world and capture Vienna. He arrives in one of the ship's hedonist party segments after Vienna and Urmah fought the partygoers whilst asking about Scarden's whereabouts and the two of them go looking for a medical segment to see to Vienna's wounds. Passion too heads there to find medicine for the feverish Scarden.
Breaking into the segment and hiding at the insistence of the Master, Passion learns that Vienna and Urmah are looking for Scarden and takes him to a cargo seg to set a trap with the promise that the Master will cure him. Vienna suspects that Scarden might have disguised himself as a Spark and accesses a terminal in the hopes of making the Sparks aware of this, but she is recognised as an intruder and she and Urmah are forced to flee towards the cargo segs. When they enter one, they find Thaddeus's corpse with a blunt injury to the back of his head.
Passion confronts the two of them with the dying Scarden, whom Vienna realises is dying from radiation poisoning because of the Heart of Tiamat. Vienna tries to shoot the Master when he and Kryle arrive, but he is invulnerable in his ethereal state and reveals that he got Thaddeus to contract her to find Scarden after the Sect proved unsuccessful as he might want to do something with the Heart in the future. Additionally, Urmah reveals that he has been working for the Master and was the one who murdered Thaddeus, only for the Master to absorb his life force to become corporeal.
Scarden dies despite the Master's promise to cure him and Passion swears that she will kill him for it. With the last of his strength, Urmah throws Vienna her gun and she fires, but the Master escapes with Kryle and he declares that the chase begins. Passion refuses to leave the Kairos with her as she intends to avenge Scarden's death and states that they will have to stop whatever the Master is planning as he will hunt them wherever they go. As Sparks approach, Vienna and Passion leave.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Master - Eric Roberts
- Vienna Salvatori - Chase Masterson
- Passion - Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter
- Brother Urmah - Rodney Gooden
- Griz Scarden / Kryle - Esmonde Cole
- Kairos Computer - Michelle Asante
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Kairos has a vortex drive and a new induction core.
- The Kairos crosses a pocket of dark time.
- A worker goes to check on an intake port.
- The Master destroys virtual bots.
- Scarden has painkillers.
- Urmah is a Gakrutian.
- Urmah carries a ceremonial electromace.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be addded
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Vienna is surprised that the Master was able to survive the events of Vengeance [+]Loading...["Vengeance (audio story)"].
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Nemesis Express page at bigfinish.com
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