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The Doctor and Ace arrive, but the library appears to be in ruins. The Doctor explains that this is [[Time Lord]] technology at work; he was here with others at the time of construction. The Time Lords created not only a defensive grid, but also a time barrier that projects an impenetrable illusion of the way the library will look more than three thousand years in the future. Only one who is time-sensitive—like the Time Lords—or specially identified in the system can pass through it. He brings Ace through, and introduces her to the head librarian, [[Elgin (The Genocide Machine)|Elgin]], and his assistant Cataloguer, [[Prink]]. The return of the books prompts a momentary scandal; but Elgin relents, and shows them around. | The Doctor and Ace arrive, but the library appears to be in ruins. The Doctor explains that this is [[Time Lord]] technology at work; he was here with others at the time of construction. The Time Lords created not only a defensive grid, but also a time barrier that projects an impenetrable illusion of the way the library will look more than three thousand years in the future. Only one who is time-sensitive—like the Time Lords—or specially identified in the system can pass through it. He brings Ace through, and introduces her to the head librarian, [[Elgin (The Genocide Machine)|Elgin]], and his assistant Cataloguer, [[Prink]]. The return of the books prompts a momentary scandal; but Elgin relents, and shows them around. | ||
The library has a new achievement. It now contains a "wetworks", a huge array of water tanks that use the fluids as a complex form of memory storage. In this way, they have vastly increased their information capacity. The information can be retrieved via direct download to the brain. Elgin mentions that no one has access to the library—it is for storing information, not sharing it. This frustrates Ace, and she leaves to return to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Elgin tells the Doctor that the non-sharing policy has prompted a response from numerous races—including a semi-robotic race called the [[Dalek | The library has a new achievement. It now contains a "wetworks", a huge array of water tanks that use the fluids as a complex form of memory storage. In this way, they have vastly increased their information capacity. The information can be retrieved via direct download to the brain. Elgin mentions that no one has access to the library—it is for storing information, not sharing it. This frustrates Ace, and she leaves to return to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Elgin tells the Doctor that the non-sharing policy has prompted a response from numerous races—including a semi-robotic race called the [[Dalek]]s. | ||
Outside the time barrier, Ace meets the wounded Bev; as she is taking her to the library to be cured, the duo are captured by the Daleks. | Outside the time barrier, Ace meets the wounded Bev; as she is taking her to the library to be cured, the duo are captured by the Daleks. | ||
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Near the ziggurat, they find the remains of Tarrant's crew, with some oddities about their corpses. Elgin tells him some unsettling stories about supposed phantoms in the jungle, dating from earliest colonisation. They then find that the ziggurat has been opened from the inside. Putting things together, the Doctor realises it's not an ancient artefact, but rather, a Dalek hibernation unit—and its inhabitants have now awoken! He finds a cloning chamber in the corner, and realises that the Ace he sent to the medical bay is a Dalek operative. | Near the ziggurat, they find the remains of Tarrant's crew, with some oddities about their corpses. Elgin tells him some unsettling stories about supposed phantoms in the jungle, dating from earliest colonisation. They then find that the ziggurat has been opened from the inside. Putting things together, the Doctor realises it's not an ancient artefact, but rather, a Dalek hibernation unit—and its inhabitants have now awoken! He finds a cloning chamber in the corner, and realises that the Ace he sent to the medical bay is a Dalek operative. | ||
Meanwhile, "Ace" has lowered the defence grid, and the Supreme Dalek orders its ship in orbit to send in attack troops. | Meanwhile, "Ace" has lowered the defence grid, and the Supreme Dalek orders its ship in orbit to send in attack troops. | ||
=== Part three === | === Part three === | ||
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* The [[Dalek]]s - [[Alistair Lock]] and [[Nicholas Briggs]] | * The [[Dalek]]s - [[Alistair Lock]] and [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Ace wanders around the [[TARDIS library]]. She finds a book from [[Kar-Charrat]]. | * Ace wanders around the [[TARDIS library]]. She finds a book from [[Kar-Charrat]]. | ||
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* The Kar-Charrat Library is hidden behind a [[temporal barrier]]. | * The Kar-Charrat Library is hidden behind a [[temporal barrier]]. | ||
==Gallery== | == Gallery == | ||
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" widths="250"> | <gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" widths="250"> | ||
The Genocide Machine cover.jpg|Original cover art | The Genocide Machine cover.jpg|Original cover art | ||
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{{Dalek audio stories}} | {{Dalek audio stories}} | ||
{{TitleSort}} | {{TitleSort}} | ||
[[Category:Dalek audio stories]] | [[Category:Dalek audio stories]] | ||
[[Category:Audio stories that use Delia Derbyshire's 2nd theme]] | [[Category:Audio stories that use Delia Derbyshire's 2nd theme]] | ||
