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[[File:Basic 100.jpg|right|thumb|While under the influence of [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|the Beast]], the [[Ood]] register Basic 100. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet]]'')]]

'''Basic''' was a scale that measured [[telepathy|telepathic]] fields. [[Ood]] who had had their hind-[[brain]]s removed registered Basic 5 as a norm. When [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|the Beast]] first made telepathic contact with the Ood in the [[Walker Expedition]] on [[Sanctuary Base 6]], it rose to Basic 30, which meant that they were shouting, screaming inside their heads. But the [[Tenth Doctor]] realised that someone was shouting at them. When the Ood attacked the [[human]]s on the base, they were at Basic 100, which meant they should have been braindead. If this fell to Basic 0, it caused a 'Brainstorm' in Ood and made them collapse. [[Danny Bartock]] used this to disable the Ood by broadcasting it through a telepathic flare. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet]]''/''[[The Satan Pit]]'')