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|doctor = Eighth Doctor | |doctor = Eighth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Bliss (The Starship of Theseus)|Bliss | |companions = | ||
|featuring = [[Fourth Tamasan]], [[Bliss (The Starship of Theseus)|Bliss]], [[Rupa Maguire|Rupa]], [[Quarren Maguire|Quarren]] | |||
|enemy = [[ | |enemy = [[War Ollistra]] | ||
|setting = [[Gallifreyan Military Moon Base]] | |setting = [[Gallifreyan Military Moon Base]] | ||
|writer = [[Matt Fitton]] | |writer = [[Matt Fitton]] | ||
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|prev = Echoes of War (audio story) | |prev = Echoes of War (audio story) | ||
|next = One Life (audio story) | |next = One Life (audio story) | ||
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'''''The Conscript''''' was the third story in the audio anthology ''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume One]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Rakhee Thakrar]] as [[Bliss]], [[Karina Fernandez]] as [[Fourth Tamasan|Captain Tamasan]] and [[Jacqueline Pearce]] as [[War Ollistra|Cardinal Ollistra]]. | '''''The Conscript''''' was the third story in the audio anthology ''[[The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume One]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Matt Fitton]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Rakhee Thakrar]] as [[Bliss]], [[Karina Fernandez]] as [[Fourth Tamasan|Captain Tamasan]] and [[Jacqueline Pearce]] as [[War Ollistra|Cardinal Ollistra]]. | ||
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[[Bliss (The Starship of Theseus)|Bliss]] refuses to answer any of Ollistra's questions, but she already knows who she is from her [[Luna University]] records and from a [[biodata]] search in the Matrix, which is tracing her entire [[timeline]]. Despite Ollistra telling her that nobody in the universe knows that she is here and that the [[Time Lord]]s can do what they like to her, Bliss remains steadfast. | [[Bliss (The Starship of Theseus)|Bliss]] refuses to answer any of Ollistra's questions, but she already knows who she is from her [[Luna University]] records and from a [[biodata]] search in the Matrix, which is tracing her entire [[timeline]]. Despite Ollistra telling her that nobody in the universe knows that she is here and that the [[Time Lord]]s can do what they like to her, Bliss remains steadfast. | ||
At breakfast, the Doctor tells Veeda and Norvid that he spent the night checking the camp's security. The three of them are taken for a weapons drill with the rest of Red Seven. | [[Rupa Maguire|Rupa]] and [[Quarren Maguire|Quarren]] have their biodata samples taken by Ollistra, who says that she is ensuring that they are safe from contamination to the Time War. | ||
At breakfast, the Doctor tells Veeda and Norvid that he spent the night checking the camp's security. The three of them are taken for a weapons drill with the rest of Red Seven. The Doctor chooses not to assemble a staser cannon as ordered to and instead makes an [[ozone detector]], leading Tamasan to punish the group by making Veeda do push-ups, for which he apologises after doing as asked. The group march and meet Harlan, who makes them do push-ups because of Norvid's dirty boots. He excuses the Doctor and threatens to make the group do more push-ups if he joins in. | |||
Ollistra returns to the Maguires and says that there are Matrix inconsistencies regarding how they came to be on the ''Theseus''. Until they can be sure that the inconsistency is due to the effects of the Time War, the Maguires are to be separated. | |||
At night, the privates are woken up and taken to the target range. The Doctor is scoping out the route to the Internment Tower, having his [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] run a decryption program for a code-locked gate, but manages to discreetly join the group outside and tells Veeda and Norvid that he will be through in another day. At the range, the Doctor destroys the targets with his screwdriver and Tamasan allows them to return to bed, telling them that they will see what Harlan says in the morning. The next day, Harlan stamps on the Doctor's screwdriver. | |||
Tamasan informs Ollistra of her belief that the Doctor is trying to reach his friends. Ollistra has his access to technology restricted and supplies Tamasan with a report on increased Dalek activity for Harlan, as well as giving her permission for the Doctor to be reprimanded. | |||
The Doctor and Norvid eat, their table becoming less and less popular and Veeda not sitting with them until Tamasan does. The Doctor is not impressed by Veeda and Tamasan's attitudes and makes a speech about how the privates are not [[Sontaran]]s before starting a food fight. Tamasan leaves and returns with Harlan, who has the Doctor placed in solitary confinement for seven days. His request for a [[cricket ball]] is ignored. | |||
Harlan visits Ollistra and asks for his objections to the Doctor's presence to be expressed to the War Council. The camp will soon have to be relocated and, when it does, he does not want the Doctor to join them. | |||
During [[temporal orienteering]], the privates see a Dalek [[hunter drone]] and hide. Veeda contacts Tamasan and Norvid, trying to think of what the Doctor would do, throws a rock at it to distract it. Tamasan transmats there and kills the Dalek after it exterminates Norvid. Harlan orders that Norvid's body be returned to Gallifrey, the Doctor released and the camp moved with the plan being to send the privates into battle. | |||
Tamasan blames the Doctor for Norvid's death and gives him a [[Moonlight Bloom]], symbolising [[cowardice]]. Harlan sends her away to Ollistra and tells the Doctor that he is not a coward but a hero of the old Gallifrey and not one that it needs in this war. The Doctor offers to help once there is a ceasefire and, until then, he will help with evacuating Tenacity and saving his friends. | |||
With the Dalek fleet changing course for Tenacity, Ollistra orders the detainees moved to a holding pen whilst the Internment Tower is deconstructed. Harlan informs her that the Daleks have arrived despite the [[sky trench]]es, the [[transduction barrier]]s having somehow disappeared. Ollistra has Tamasan fortify the ground defences, raise a shield around the base and prepare the Battle TARDISes for Harlan's use. | |||
[[ | The Doctor tells everybody to flee from the Daleks rather than fight and is told by Veeda where his friends are now. It seems that half of the privates are going to follow Tamasan into battle whilst the others run. She hands him a transport bracelet and a keycard to the TARDIS bays before going to join Tamasan, taking on the [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek saucers]]. He goes to Bliss, Rupa and Quarren and takes them to his TARDIS. | ||
Veeda warns Tamasan of incoming Dalek troops and is exterminated. Harlan, who is leaving Tenacity, tells Ollistra that the privates are too inexperienced to win and that he will have Tamasan draw in the fleet and detonate the moon, a tactic which Ollistra believes is down to the Doctor's influence. He will return to [[the Capitol]] with Norvid's body and start a job in the [[resurrection]] lines which the War Council have assigned him to; meanwhile, Ollistra has unfinished business. | |||
The Doctor, Bliss, Rupa and Quarren are surrounded by Ollistra and her men when they reach the TARDIS. Ollistra says that he is welcome to leave, returning his repaired and recoloured screwdriver, but telling him that his TARDIS might only travel in space and that the others cannot go with him. When he refuses to get out of her way, Ollistra takes a staser and prepares to shoot him and trigger a [[regeneration]], allowing her to take her detainees and believing that the next Doctor might be more willing to fight. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* "[[Rassilon]]'s blood" and "what in [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]]?" are Gallifreyan exclamations. | * "[[Rassilon]]'s blood" and "what in [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]]?" are Gallifreyan exclamations. | ||
* The Doctor's squad, "[[red seven]]," builds [[staser cannon]]s. | * The Doctor's squad, "[[red seven]]," builds [[staser cannon]]s. | ||
* The Doctor builds an [[ozone detector]]. | |||
* Tamasan mentions [[Prydonian Chapter|Prydon]], [[Arcalian Chapter|Arcalia]], [[Patrex Chapter|Patrex]], [[Scendeles Chapter|Scendeles]] and [[Dromeian Chapter|Dromeia]]. She does not mention [[Cerulean Chapter|Cerulea]]. | |||
* The Doctor mentions the mountains of [[Solace]] and [[Solitude]] and the [[Lakes of Iridescence]]. | |||
* The Doctor shouts to the conscripts "You are not [[Sontaran]]s!" | * The Doctor shouts to the conscripts "You are not [[Sontaran]]s!" | ||
* The aim of [[temporal orienteering]] is to collect target flags and return just after leaving. | |||
* [[Zintel]] is time-blind. | |||
* [[Calanta]] enjoyed herself when Norvid set off the fire alarm in the showers. | |||
* A [[Dalek hunter drone]] infiltrates, scans, and broadcasts back. It's the new hunter-class, with [[gunstick]]s. | * A [[Dalek hunter drone]] infiltrates, scans, and broadcasts back. It's the new hunter-class, with [[gunstick]]s. | ||
* The Doctor mentions the [[Moonlight Bloom]], a sign of peace, now a sign of cowardice. | * The Doctor mentions the [[Moonlight Bloom]], a sign of peace, now a sign of cowardice. It grew on the south side of a mountain and Harlan would sneak past the [[Housemother]] to watch the petals open in the moonlight. | ||
* The War Council are looking at ways to combat [[regeneration inhibitor]]s. | |||
* The Doctor describes the Time War as an "[[arms race]]." | * The Doctor describes the Time War as an "[[arms race]]." | ||
* There are outer [[Transduction barrier|transduction fields]] and sky trenches protecting Tenacity. | * There are outer [[Transduction barrier|transduction fields]] and sky trenches protecting Tenacity. | ||
