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{{Infobox Short Story | {{Infobox Short Story | ||
|image= [[file:The Key of Vaga.jpg|250px]] | |image= [[file:The Key of Vaga title.jpg|250px]] | ||
|series=[[Doctor Who Annual]] | |series=[[Doctor Who Annual]] | ||
|story name=The Key of Vaga | |story name=The Key of Vaga | ||
|doctor=[[Fifth Doctor]] | |doctor=[[Fifth Doctor]] | ||
|companions= [[Adric]] | |companions= [[Adric]] | ||
|year= | |enemy = [[Pyron]]s | ||
|year=[[Vaga]], star system [[Magna]] | |||
|writer= | |writer= | ||
|publication=[[Doctor Who Annual 1982]] | |publication=[[Doctor Who Annual 1982]] | ||
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|next story=[[Planet of Fear]] | |next story=[[Planet of Fear]] | ||
|}} | |}} | ||
'''''The Key of Vaga''''' was the fifth story in the [[Doctor Who Annual 1982]]. It was the first short story to feature the [[Fifth Doctor]] and takes places in an unidentified gap in which the Doctor travels only with Adric. It saw recognition that the Doctor is able to build inter-dimensional craft. | |||
==Summary== | |||
The Planet Vaga faces its darkest hour. The only hope for its people lies within a boy called Adric and his friend, yhe Doctor... | |||
== | ==Plot== | ||
The | The TARDIS lands on Vaga and the Doctor has to hurry to delay the landing of another inter-dimensional craft possessed by [[Vagan]]s. He does so but then a [[Pyron]] [[space-shark]] arrives and begins bombarding them. While Adric creates a distraction the Doctor runs for the TARDIS. | ||
The Vagan craft arrives and uses a [[beta-force field]] to prematurely detonate the Pyron ship's warheads, destroying it. [[Valtar]], a Vagan the Doctor met on a previous visit, appears to the Doctor and Adric. | |||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
*[[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] | *[[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] | ||
*[[Adric]] | *[[Adric]] | ||
*[[Valtar]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
''to | *The TARDIS is said to have entered the eighth dimension. | ||
*The [[modular transmission linkage]] is a TARDIS component that allows the Doctor to know when he's landed. | |||
*The [[Pyron]]s destroyed [[Vaga]]'s larger sun when they fired a [[plinium missile]] into it. The [[Vagan]]s population was death within one Vagan-year. | |||
*The Doctor helped design the [[Key to Vaga]]. | |||
*The Doctor claims that two inter-dimensional craft cannot exist together in the same temporal-space frequency. | |||
*Pyrons use a craft called a [[space-shark]]. It is equipped with both plinium and [[Zargon missile]]s. | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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[[Category:Fifth Doctor short stories|Key]] | [[Category:Fifth Doctor short stories|Key]] | ||
