Ace's TARDIS (Death Comes to Time)
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A TARDIS originally used by Castellan Casmus was bequeathed by him to Ace after she was granted the right to use one by the Kingmaker. It had a working chameleon circuit.
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Casmus had used it to rescue Ace from Tannis's command ship in orbit around Santiny, bringing her to Gallifrey to teach her in Time Lord ways. (WC: "At the Temple of the Fourth" [+]Part of Death Comes to Time, Loading...{"namedep":"At the Temple of the Fourth","1":"Death Comes to Time (webcast)"}) After Ace was introduced to the Kingmaker, the mysterious elder decreed that "we grant you TARDIS!", giving her a vision of the Doctor's TARDIS to emphasise her point. When she exited, Casmus summoned his TARDIS to him in the form of a man-sized rock matching the landscape of Mount Plutarch, and beckoned her inside, explaining TARDISes' true essence to her and showing her how to use it. He avoided Ace's question about why he was so quick to give her his own ship, not wanting to explicitly tell her that he had foreseen (WC: "No Child of Earth" [+]Part of Death Comes to Time, Loading...{"namedep":"No Child of Earth","1":"Death Comes to Time (webcast)"}) his own death at the hands of Tannis.
Ace then flew the ship to Anima Persis for the test the Kingmaker had set to her, secretly an impossible task which all would-be Time Lords were made to undergo, teaching them the consequences of failure to control their powers in a controlled environment. On the surface of the ruined planet, the TARDIS took the form of a stone hut resembling the nearby ruins of a village. After Ace failed the test and passed out, she and her ship were found by Golcrum, a banished Canisian who had been marooned on Anima Persis by Tannis as punishment for failing to obey orders. Golcrum carried Ace back into the ship, where she came to, flying it back to Gallifrey. There, the two found Casmus's body and were reunited with the Seventh Doctor. While the Doctor travelled to Santiny to stop the madeened Minister, he told Ace to travel to Earth on his behalf with Golcrum in what was now her own TARDIS. There, she contacted Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and gave his counter-measures group forewarning about the Canisians and how to remotely detonate their own bombs aboard their ships using a Canisian transmitted taken from their agent Nessican. Ace met the Doctor one final time on Salisbury Plain before he destroyed himself and Tannis, then, after informing Lethbridge-Stewart of his death, flew back to Gallifrey to see the Kingmaker again. (WC: "Death Comes to Time" [+]Part of Death Comes to Time, Loading...{"namedep":"Death Comes to Time","1":"Death Comes to Time (webcast)"})
