Slitheen craft (Aliens of London)
A Slitheen craft was used by the Passameer-Day Slitheen. It had faster-than-light travel capability in the form of a slipstream engine.
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
It was the ship that crashed (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) into Elizabeth Tower (the tower which housed the Big Ben bell) (PROSE: Twenty-First-Century London [+]Loading...{"page":"28","1":"Twenty-First-Century London (feature)"}) and the River Thames in Central London on 6 March 2006, (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) the Slitheen using the crash as a diversion for their bigger plans, namely, their attempt to destroy Earth. Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen claimed that it wasn't crashed, but parked "barely two minutes away" from 10 Downing Street for the Slitheen to escape to when World War III started. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"]) To further the hoax of an alien invasion, the Slitheen genetically modified a pig into a biped and placed it aboard the craft as its "pilot". (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], PROSE: Twenty-First-Century London [+]Loading...{"page":"28","1":"Twenty-First-Century London (feature)"})
The crash of the craft and its pig slave pilot was discussed in an operations board by various UNIT officers. According to this account, the crash took place on 28 June 2006, and Corporal J Frinkstein and his men investigated the ship, and he took photographs of the interior of the craft and the pig slave. However, both Frinkstein and Lieutenant David Judd agreed there was nothing of use to be understood from the craft. (PROSE: Operation London [+]Loading...["Operation London (short story)"])
Later that day, after the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler were taken to 10 Downing Street, Mickey Smith (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) wrote on his website about the crash, ecstatic that it would finally prove his and Clive's suspicions about the Doctor true, and would force the government to respond to the existence of aliens. He was also sent a drawing of the ship by tonka_boy and a picture and a drawing of its pig-like pilot by squidbaby23. (PROSE: Alien landing confirmed [+]Loading...["Alien landing confirmed (short story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This ship was released in Character Options' Micro Universe range as the "Slitheen Cruiser". The product description makes the "fair assumption" that the Torchwood Institute ultimately took possession of the craft.
