Incoming Transmission - February Update Video (webcast)
Incoming Transmission - February Update Video was a webcast short tying in with the Time Lord Victorious multimedia event, and also serving as an update video for the Doctor Who: Worlds Apart online trading cards game, unveiling new updates to its beta interface via the plot device of the game interface being used in-universe as the interface of a UNIT database.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
We've been receiving some really weird transmissions over the past week, but it's finally fully connected!
Where has Sasha gone??? Watch this video and help UNIT find her before it's too late!
This intense tale shows off the upcoming changes to Doctor Who: Worlds Apart, including the new version of the Deck Builder, some fancy new UI updates and the ability to upgrade all TLV cards to Level Three - Animated.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
In November 2023, friends Sasha and Darren were abruptly abducted out of time by the Entity. In February 2024, Sasha finally manages to get a glitching distress signal through, and Darren receives the call. She explains that after they were separated, she ended up on a mysterious, ancient-looking ship. She was captured by its crew, who put a bag over her head, but she managed to escape and find a room with comms equipment, hence her current call. Darren, for his part, explains that he was transported to 2053 and was found living on the streets by the future version of UNIT, who recognised him as a stranded time-traveller and recruited him before sending him back to the 2020s.
As they work to deduce Sasha's location, Sasha explains that much of the data she found onboard this ship's sytem was in "a really weird language… all shapes and stuff", but she is able to send new data to UNIT's digital systems interface, cryptically importing that "worlds are going to be much more important than we f*cking thought". Indeed, loading up the visual interface, Darren finds that "selecting the worlds first is key" to tracking down Sasha's locations. After he does so, the system is able to identify Sasha's location as a coffin ship, much to both their distress, which, with a quick scan of the database's "list of [UNIT's] known enemies in that area", leads to the realisation that Sasha is "trapped with a Great Vampire". Sasha is forced to flee when she hears approaching roars, but Darren promises to send her reinforcements, and indeed, just before she's forced to end her transmission, she hears the sound of a TARDIS materialising, prompting her to realise "he's here".
Some time later, Darren contacts Commander Dave to update him on "the Sasha situation", reporting that "the Doctor got there just in time" and Sasha is safe and sound at "UNIT HQ". When the Commander asks if she managed to retrieve any useful information, Darren happily reports that she did indeed, and that her data have allowed UNIT to update all their cards related to the Kotturuh crisis to Level III.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Sasha - Sasha Blore
- Sergeant Darren - Darren Fitzjohn
- Commander Dave - Dave Learmont (voice only)
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Sergeant Darren claims that 2053 was "amazing", though he was found by the future UNIT "eating a tin of fish fingers and custard in the street".
- The UNIT visual interface includes a Deck Builder on which cards containing relevant data can be slotted.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Sasha, Sergeant Darren, and Dave were named after their actors, Sasha Blore, Darren Fitzjohn, and Dave Learmont. Blore and Fitzjohn were "Community Managers" in charge of promotion for Worlds Apart and Learmont was the Head of Marketing for Reality+.
- Doctor Who: Worlds Apart released a behind-the-scenes video of Blore preparing her costume and make-up for the shoot on TikTok.[1]
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- In November 2023, Sasha and Sergeant Darren were transported through time by "the Entity", the main antagonist of the Daleks! webseries, as first mentioned in PROSE: The Restoration Empire [+]Loading...["The Restoration Empire (short story)"] and later seen from WC: The Archive of Islos [+]Loading...["The Archive of Islos (webcast)"] throughout the webseries in question.
- The Great Vampires were introduced in TV: State of Decay [+]Loading...["State of Decay (TV story)"].
- Sasha ends up on a coffin ship. Coffin ships were introduced as vessels of the Great and lesser vampires in COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Loading...["Monstrous Beauty (comic story)"], also playing a part in PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead [+]Loading...["The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)"] and PROSE: All Flesh is Grass [+]Loading...["All Flesh is Grass (novel)"].
- UNIT's visual interface's library of "worlds", in addition to the coffin ship as well as entries for both "prehistoric Earth" and "modern Earth", is shown to include:
- the Dalek homeworld of Skaro, introduced in TV: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"];
- the Cyberman homeworld of Telos, introduced in TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)"];
- the Kotturuh homeworld of Mordeela, introduced in PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead [+]Loading...["The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)"];
- Tivoli, homeworld of the Tivolians, first mentioned in TV: The God Complex [+]Loading...["The God Complex (TV story)"].
- In addition to the Great Vampires, the visual interface's database of "known enemies" of UNIT also includes:
- the Emperor of Restoration as first mentioned in PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"] and seen throughout Time Lord Victorious from COMIC: Defender of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Defender of the Daleks (comic story)"] onwards;
- a Cyberman Legion Leader with an exposed brain, resembling the Cyber-Leader seen in TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"];
- the Tenth Doctor as the Time Lord Victorious, wearing Gallifreyan robes, as seen in PROSE: All Flesh is Grass [+]Loading...["All Flesh is Grass (novel)"], COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times [+]Loading...["Tales of the Dark Times (comic story)"] and so on;
- the Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War as he appeared as the "God Emperor", a term used by the Emperor to refer to himself in AUDIO: Homecoming [+]Loading...["Homecoming (audio story)"], by the time of the Battle of the Game Station, as seen in TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"];
- a Myrka, as introduced in TV: Warriors of the Deep [+]Loading...["Warriors of the Deep (TV story)"];
- Avkhan, a Kotturuh, introduced in AUDIO: The Minds of Magnox [+]Loading...["The Minds of Magnox (audio story)"];
- the Cyberium as introduced in TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati [+]Loading...["The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)"];
- a Cyberman contained in a Dark Water coffin, as seen at 3W Institute in TV: Dark Water [+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"];
- the vampirised Rose Tyler and the vampire warrior Drogann, both as seen in COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Loading...["Monstrous Beauty (comic story)"];
- River Song, introduced in TV: Silence in the Library [+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"] and seen as she appeared in the climax of TV: Day of the Moon [+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"], shooting attacking Silents with a blaster;
- "the Entity" as first seen in WC: The Archive of Islos [+]Loading...["The Archive of Islos (webcast)"];
- the Racnoss Empress as seen in TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"];
- the Kotturuh themselves, listed as "the Bringers of Death", as introduced in PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times [+]Loading...["The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)"], and their crystals, here referred to as Judgement Stones as they were in GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Loading...["Worlds Apart (video game)"];
- Bronze Daleks causing "Dalek mayhem", as first seen in TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"];
- Death Squad Daleks as introduced in TV: Revolution of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)"];
- the Dalek Time Squad, as introduced in PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times [+]Loading...["The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)"];
- the Supreme Dalek from TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], referred to as the Crucible Supreme;
- a Dalek neutronic bomb, as documented in TV: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"];
- a swarm of bats as controled by Aukon in TV: State of Decay [+]Loading...["State of Decay (TV story)"];
- the Kotturuh Inyit, as seen in PROSE: All Flesh is Grass [+]Loading...["All Flesh is Grass (novel)"];
- a Triceratops as seen aboard the Silurian Ark in TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship [+]Loading...["Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)"];
- the Mad Sisters as seen in COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Loading...["Monstrous Beauty (comic story)"];
- Necros Daleks as introduced TV: Revelation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"];
- Imperial Daleks as introduced in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"].
- The "TLV Cards" include the Great Vampires, the Time Lord Victorious, Vampire Rose, and also Friar Grystok as seen in COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Loading...["Monstrous Beauty (comic story)"].
- Other entries in the visual interface database include a Dalek Ambassador as well as the "Exodus Cybermen" (the Cybermen seen in TV: World Enough and Time [+]Loading...["World Enough and Time (TV story)"] and TV: The Doctor Falls [+]Loading...["The Doctor Falls (TV story)"]), both designations from GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Loading...["Worlds Apart (video game)"].
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Doctor Who: Worlds Apart (8 February 2024). BTS!!. Twitter. Archived from the original on 8 February 2024.
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