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[[File:Jathaa sungliders.jpg|thumb|[[BBC News 24]] reports on Jathaa sungliders hovering over the [[Taj Mahal]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'')]] | [[File:Jathaa sungliders.jpg|thumb|[[BBC News 24]] reports on Jathaa sungliders hovering over the [[Taj Mahal]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'')]] | ||
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The '''[[Jathaa]] sungliders''' were large, black, [[Flying saucer|saucer]]-shaped crafts employed by the [[Jathaa]] when visiting [[Earth]]. They moved via a smaller rotating platform of some sort underneath, and contained [[Jathaa sunglider laser|powerful weapon systems]], utilising five energy beams that converge into one powerful beam capable of disintegrating a [[Sycorax]] asteroid ship into ash. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') | The '''[[Jathaa]] sungliders''' were large, black, [[Flying saucer|saucer]]-shaped crafts employed by the [[Jathaa]] when visiting [[Earth]]. They moved via a smaller rotating platform of some sort underneath, and contained [[Jathaa sunglider laser|powerful weapon systems]], utilising five energy beams that converge into one powerful beam capable of disintegrating a [[Sycorax]] asteroid ship into ash. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') | ||
==History== | |||
In [[1997]], the [[Torchwood Institute]] shot down [[Jathaa sunglider (Army of Ghosts)|one of these craft]] over the [[North Sea]], and by [[2006]] they had managed to reverse-engineer the weapons system. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') At [[Christmas]] of that year, they were ordered by [[British Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] [[Harriet Jones]] to use the weapon against the [[Sycorax]] spaceship that threatened Earth at the time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') | In [[1997]], the [[Torchwood Institute]] shot down [[Jathaa sunglider (Army of Ghosts)|one of these craft]] over the [[North Sea]], and by [[2006]] they had managed to reverse-engineer the weapons system. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') At [[Christmas]] of that year, they were ordered by [[British Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] [[Harriet Jones]] to use the weapon against the [[Sycorax]] spaceship that threatened Earth at the time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') | ||
When the [[Cardiff rift]] fractured, mixing space and time periods, Jathaa ships appeared and hovered over the [[Taj Mahal]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'') | When the [[Cardiff rift]] fractured, mixing space and time periods, Jathaa ships appeared and hovered over the [[Taj Mahal]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'') | ||
[[Category:Flying saucers]] | [[Category:Flying saucers]] | ||
[[Category:Military vessels]] | [[Category:Military vessels]] | ||
[[Category:Vehicles]] | [[Category:Vehicles]] |