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}}The '''Total Survival Suit''' (TSS) was a mobile combat and protective armour used by [[human]] colonial expeditions.  

It had directed beam weapons and was controlled by a direct link with the operator's brain. The TSS was also capable of functioning autonomously with a simple program — such as "Return to base", for example. The expedition to [[Deva Loka]] was outfitted with one TSS.

The machine had been used previously by two members of the expedition named [[Stone (Kinda)|Stone]] and [[Carter (Kinda)|Carter]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Kinda (novelisation)|Kinda]]'') to explore the area, but both disappeared without trace. Another called [[Roberts (Kinda)|Roberts]] had also recently been in the TSS, but had also gone missing; the machine was empty when first discovered by the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Adric]]. When Adric impulsively shut the TSS's door, the machine activated and marched him and the Doctor to the expedition's domed base.

[[Sanders (Kinda)|Sanders]] used the TSS when he left the base to explore the area, whereupon he came upon [[Panna]] and [[Karuna]] in a [[jungle]] clearing, who presented him with a mysterious [[Box of Jhana|box]].