Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Colony in Space: Difference between revisions

::Like the Daleks before them, the Uxarieans have evolved into symbiotic dependence around a technology that has become their living hell. By the stage of this story, they are clearly unable even to to feed themselves and would be dying off but for the colonists, yet they cannot even survive without the city / weapon that seems to function as some sort of network hub to their telepathic communion: they just seem to wander aimlessly as soon as it is deactivated and set to destruct. Since the city / weapon is also rendering the planet's soil toxic, Ashe's food donations are merely delaying the inevitable. Faced with a choice between saving his people by following the Dalek example and becoming living weapons, or a mass mercy killing / suicide (depending on how telepathically linked the Uxarieans may be), the leader makes an understandable choice.