9/20/2023 0 Comments Embrace the darkness![]() ![]() Haliard still won’t stop crying, and Ferras is starting to lose his composure as well, as the sobbing reminds him of the desperate agony he has just experienced. Ferras can’t find him in the dark, and he’s surprised when Orllensa finally responds to his calls he’d thought that she had been taken away, but she was just numb with shock. In the base on Cimmeria IV, Haliard is crying and he won’t stop. They can only hope that whoever transported them here isn’t hostile. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Charley emerge from the TARDIS, only to find themselves sealed behind a force field. Unable to do so, it prepares to land and investigate the loss of contact personally. Unable to identify the TARDIS, the ROSM unit teleports it aboard for further examination while it continues attempting to contact the base on Cimmeria IV. As the Doctor attempts to reset the co-ordinates, the TARDIS is located by Rescue Operational Security Module G723, which has arrived in response to Orllensa’s distress signal. Intrigued, the Doctor tries to go back and watch the sun’s disappearance in real time, but once again he has trouble getting the TARDIS to move through Time, and it materialises fully in the system. The Doctor sets the TARDIS to drift forward in Time at a half century per second, and he and Charley see a number of mysterious objects approaching the sun, which then goes dark. According to legend the system’s star disappeared one day, which is where the system’s name comes from - “Cimmerian” meaning “of darkness”. The TARDIS emerges in real space in the Cimmerian system, and to the Doctor’s surprise, Charley proves that she’s been paying attention to him when she operates the console data bank in order to learn more. Choosing not to entangle himself in whatever bureaucratic confusion the Time Lords have in store, he tries to slip past quietly, only to run into serious temporal turbulence when he tries to put his ship in hover mode. The Doctor is making tea when he detects a nearby fleet of Type 70 TARDISes. Panic-stricken, Orllensa sends a Mayday signal with the last of the emergency power, but then there is a rising hum and the three teammates begin to scream in agony as an alien voice whispers to them. Ferras tries to fetch the emergency lamps, but something brushes past him in the darkness, and he realises there’s something else in the base with them. The shaking eventually stops, but the base’s power systems are failing - and as this planet has no sun, that means the lights are going out for good. However, when they attempt to power up the EPUs, the base shakes on its foundations, even though those foundations are buried hundreds of feet beneath the planet’s surface. The EPUs are now in position, and although team members Ferras and Haliard gently mock their leader Orllena’s earnestness, it’s clear that the three teammates respect each other’s abilities. Thus, a survey team has been sent to the eternally dark planet to install EPUs, Energy Projection Units, to prepare for full-scale exploitation. The planet Cimmeria IV is rich in minerals and has no natives, as far as anybody knows. The final track of Disc 2 contains a trailer for The Time of the Daleks. In a fight for survival, the Doctor must use all his wits against a deadly artificial life-form and an ancient race whose return to the Cimmerian System threatens suffering and death on an apocalyptic scale.įeaturing the Eighth Doctor and Charley, this story takes place after the Big Finish story Seasons of Fear. But darkness has already embraced the scientific base on Cimmeria IV in more ways than one. ![]() The Doctor and Charley travel to the remote Cimmerian System to unravel the mystery of its sun. ![]()
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