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|type = Spacecraft | |type = Spacecraft | ||
|origin = [[Sontar]] | |origin = [[Sontar]] | ||
|first | |first cs = The Time Warrior (TV story) | ||
|appearances = | |appearances = {{appears}} | ||
}}{{ImageLink|Sontaran space pod}} | }}{{ImageLink|Sontaran space pod}} | ||
'''Sontaran [[scout ship]]s''', also called '''[[battlecruiser]]s''' ([[TV]]: | '''Sontaran [[scout ship]]s''', also called '''Sontaran scout-ships''', ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Legions of Death (game)}}) '''[[battlecruiser]]s''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors}}) '''battlespheres''', ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Starlight Robbery (audio story)|Starlight Robbery}}) '''space pods''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran}}) '''pod ships''', ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Five Companions (audio story)|The Five Companions}}) '''drop-pods''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Soldier's Education (short story)|A Soldier's Education}}) or '''gravity spheres''', ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Heroes of Sontar (audio story)|Heroes of Sontar}}) were spherical [[spacecraft]] used by the [[Sontaran]]s to [[Scout ship|scout]] ahead of fleets to investigate or infiltrate the enemy, usually the [[Rutan Host]]. | ||
There were considerably smaller than nine metres in diameter, ([[AUDIO]]: | There were considerably smaller than nine metres in diameter, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Absolute Power (audio story)|Absolute Power}}) and equipped with a [[tractor beam]]. One was issued to every soldier upon starting training, and they were expected to clean and maintain their ship everyday. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Five Companions (audio story)|The Five Companions}}) Scout ships had "automatic return," enabling them to return to a ship. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Ordeal (audio story)|The Sontaran Ordeal}}) The [[Sontaran Subliminal Education Matrix]] claimed that each drop-pod was [[paint]]ed a bright and reflective [[silver]] so that they could be clearly seen against the [[sky]], refusing to adopt the "[[cowardice]]" of [[camouflage]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Soldier's Education (short story)|A Soldier's Education}}) | ||
== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
In the early [[11th century]], a Sontaran scout-ship crashed at sea on [[Earth]] off the coast of [[Norway]]. The [[Sontaran officer (The Legions of Death)|Sontaran officer]] onboard survived and came aboard a [[Viking]] longship. Single-handedly taking command of the vessel, he set himself up as a local warlord, planning to gradually take over the entire country and ultimately the whole [[planet]] in the name of the [[Sontaran Empire]]. This plan would later be foiled by [[the Colonel]] on behalf of the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] with help from one of the Sontaran's reluctant Viking underlings, [[Sven Langbard]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Legions of Death (game)}}) | |||
In the [[13th century]], ([[TV]]: | In the [[13th century]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment}}) [[Jingo Linx]] had to perform an emergency landing [[Linx's spaceship|his ship]], which was damaged on a reconnaissance mission, on [[Earth]]. Linx was forced to use his osmic projector to kidnap scientists from the future and equipment to repair his ship. Linx and the ship were later destroyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior}}) | ||
[[File:Sontaran_battlecruisers.JPG|thumb|Battlecruisers approach [[Space Station Camera]] in [[1985]]. ([[TV]]: | [[File:Sontaran_battlecruisers.JPG|thumb|Battlecruisers approach [[Space Station Camera]] in [[1985]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors}})]]In [[1522]], a Sontaran scout ship crashed in [[China]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Dragon's Claw (comic story)|Dragon's Claw}}) | ||
[[UNIT]] believed that a Sontaran scout ship crashed in [[Tunguska province|Tunguska]] in the early [[20th century]], though they weren't entirely sure. They kept some of this wreckage in [[the Vault (The Scales of Injustice)|the Vault]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Tales from the Vault (audio story)|Tales from the Vault}}) | |||
[[ | Several scout ships orbited the main [[Sontaran flagship]] during the [[Sontaran invasion of Earth]] in [[2009]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem}} / {{cs|The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky}}) [[Kaagh]] was in one of these [[Kaagh's space pod|scout ships]] when it crashed to Earth. With his arm strap he moved the ship to a hidden location and even made it invisible. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran}}) | ||
In [[2010]], UNIT [[Underbase]] contained a Sontaran scout ship. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice}}) | |||
In [[ | In the early [[21st century]], [[UNIT]]'s [[The Vault (The Scales of Injustice)|Vault]] contained a fragment of a Sontaran scout ship. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Tales from the Vault (audio story)}}, {{cs|The Screaming Skull (audio story)}}) | ||
In the | In the [[24th century]] of an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]], [[Gabby Gonzalez]] and [[Cindy Wu]] piloted a scout ship to distract the lead [[CyberKing]] during an invasion of [[Sontar]] to allow the [[Tenth Doctor]], piloting another scout ship, to sneak up on it. When Cindy and Gabby's ship was swatted out of the sky, the Doctor slammed his craft directly into the CyberKing. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)}}) | ||
The [[Time Museum]] contained several Sontaran scout ships. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Time Museum (audio story)}}) | |||
The [[ | ===Undated=== | ||
There also existed a variant of the Sontaran space pod with four [[leg]]s. The [[black]]-[[Sontaran space armour|armour]]ed [[Apostasy of the Goatee]] used [[grey]] pods while the [[blue]]-armoured [[17th Veteran Cohort]] used bronze pods. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Judas Goatee (comic story)}}) | |||
When the Sontarans joined the [[Pandorica Alliance]], formed to imprison the [[Eleventh Doctor]] in the [[Pandorica]] and save the Universe, several Sontaran scout ships were part of the Alliance fleet which arrived at [[Stonehenge]] in [[102]] A.D. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens}}) | |||
[[Category:Sontaran spacecraft types]] | [[Category:Sontaran spacecraft types]] | ||
[[Category:Military vehicles]] | [[Category:Military vehicles]] | ||
