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The Doctor and the Queen walk through the palace. She asks him if he’s been to the Luparis before. He comments he has but it was a different planet. She reveals that there are dark spots appearing on the sun and this is causing the planet to cool drastically, as it is no longer hot and tropical as the Doctor had described. She brings him to the nursery and reveals that they are doing work here to deal with the problem of the planet icing over. Astorius arrives and reveals that their solution is to put people into hibernation, or rather that people are already falling into comas as they are not able to deal with the rapid cooling. The Doctor is surprised at the reveal of an electromagnetic locking system. They observe a man in a tank connected to a series of web-like vines that feed them nutrients. The Queen explains that she has put husbands and wives together in adjacent chambers.  

The Doctor asks how many pairs of chamber there are and they reveal to him that the palace and beyond is full of them. The chambers are sealed as part of the cryo-process. The Doctor notes that only the left chambers are being monitored but the right ones are not, indicating that the occupants could be gone or dead. He also notes that the palace is much warmer than the outside. She explains it is artificial. They ask him to share his knowledge about ice ages and he reluctantly consents. She then reveals that they will be married that evening. The Doctor, confused, is hesitant, but the Queen insists that it was she who asked him. With that she leaves. The Doctor expresses his hesitance to Astorius who says that there is no greater honour than being married to the Queen.  

A commoner accuses Zellenger of his misdeeds and tries to harm him. The commoner is arrested and Zellenger heads back to the castle to inform the Queen, wanting to deal with the uprising situation in the current.  

The Doctor wants to stay with his own clothes but Astorius warns him that Queen Zafira is would rather he wear what he is told.  

that this is the only solution, despite being a drastic one.

space at light speed, and then blacking out and awaking in his

current insect-like body. They see the other insects and Mike

full control of his new form, and excuses himself to go and try and

help one of the other struggling insects. Tegan is in shock and Nyssa

The Doctor is

hopes there won’t be any more trouble. The Doctor assures him there

won’t. They then head to the nursery. Astorius reveals the real

the Doctor asks about the use of flint-lock pistols and other archaic

weapons, Astorius explains that much of their technology has been

mounds. The Doctor reveals his knowledge about the Hexagora, how they

travel in swarms across the cosmos under the leadership of a powerful

selecting planets that had no intelligent life. The Doctor, realizing

the Astorius includes himself in the pronoun, asks him about this and

entering a period of its history with extreme cooling. The Doctor

realizes Astorius is telling the truth and asks for forgiveness but

certainly guilty of that but they only did this because they feared

the Doctor would disagree with them if he discovered the full truth.

they began to slip into unconsciousness due to the climate and to

which no end was foreseeable. Queen Zafira contemplated many

communities an adopt their methods to survive, but soon realized that

this was not possible since humans were mammals who possessed bodies

better-adapted to cold weather since they possessed warm blood and

could grow hair. Queen Zafira, he explains, faced with no other

commanders would then travel in spacepods to earth and bring the

chosen targets back. At first they would pick randomly, but the

abducted were not missed but when they began to target groups like

athletes, people began to notice and so those people were abducted as

but Astorius assures him they are, although now their primary

function has become for mind-transference.  

explains that Tegan told her that they were very intimate. She also

explains that they had come here with the Doctor as Tegan insisted on

coming when she discovered he had disappeared, showing that she still

find him. Nyssa suspects he is still in the palace and makes a plan

with Mike to find him, using Lord Jezzavar.

a pair of guards.

continues on.  

The

from underneath him and makes a break for it. He finally finds the

throne room but is stopped by an armed guard. He manages to outwit

the guard and escapes.  

=== Part four ===

belittles him for his jealousy and finally makes an official order

that he is to be banished from the inner courts and denied entry to

that despite his demotion he is to make sure nothing happens at the

wedding ceremony tonight as minister of the guards. Despite his

protests, he obeys. The Doctor thanks the Queen as Zellenger is

reveals he has spoken with Astorius and is aware of the current

situation and problems facing the Hexagorans. He consents to having

As

they can only now risk the occasional space pod flight, and even that

with the Doctor saying that’s not the Tegan he remembers, a Tegan

She decides to see if all the sleepers will work together to help her

The

be easier and less time-consuming to simply fix the space pods and

that he has asked enough questions and that he will now act the part

of a good husband and ready himself for the marriage and follow and

obey every order she gives him from now on. She then sends him away.  

Zellenger

opens the gates for Consul Nyssa and Jezzevar and they are told they

further animosity between the two. They then proceed through the

gates.  

The

the front.  

Mike

and Tegan manage to land albeit very clumsily. Mike is injured and

Doctor objects. First on the grounds that this whole ceremony is

wrong and that they are replicating a ceremony and culture that they

one but instead pulls out knife and attacks them. Zellenger attempts

to stop him and it is revealed that Jezzavar was attempting to kill

them, start a coup and install Nyssa as the Queen. He then takes the

able to access the memory pool has to do with the foreign bodies they

have been inhabiting for so long. He explains that their race has

individually, hence the jealousy, betrayal and all other negative

features manifesting itself. She accuses him of just trying to save

says that if they go back to their original bodies then they should

be able to access the memory pool once again and find the knowledge

to repair their space pods which they can then repair and use to

what to do with Jezzavar, the Doctor says that it doesn’t matter

since Jezzavar is just the victim of the mentality of the body he

inhabits as he is acting like “a true Elizabethan”.  

is. Nyssa explains that once Astorius swtiched back bodies and

accessed the pool, he didn’t even need the Doctor’s help to

that he specifically requested to be sent home last. Tegan runs off.  

== Cast ==

* After ''[[Prison in Space (audio story)|Prison in Space]]'', this is the second Lost Story in which a female ruler seeks to marry the Doctor. [[Babs]], the Chairman of the [[World Federation of Womanhood]], became infatuated with the [[Second Doctor]] immediately after meeting him in that story.

* After ''[[The Foe from the Future (audio story)|The Foe from the Future]]'' and ''[[The Valley of Death (audio story)|The Valley of Death]]'', this is the third Lost Story to partially take place in [[1977]].

* This audio drama was recorded on [[10 February (production)|10]] and [[11 February (production)|11 February]] [[2011 (production)|2011]].

* The original working title for this story was simply ''Hex''.