Doctor Who - The 8th Doctor - 26 - Interference Book Two by Lawrence Miles

Author:Lawrence Miles [Miles, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Adventure, Time Travel, Occult & Supernatural, Doctor Who (Television Program), Doctor Who (Fictitious Character)
ISBN: 9780563555827
Publisher: BBC
Published: 1999-10-14T07:00:00+00:00

The warship arrived in ‘real time’ about four and a half light years from Dust, in orbit around a planet that had been claimed by the Earth Empire nearly a thousand years earlier, but which had never been fully colonised for economic reasons too dull for history to remember. The human outpost there had soon been infiltrated by agents of the Faction – it was a perfect away base, being as obscure and as far from Gallifrey as it was – but it had been abandoned when Earth had fallen, leaving nothing but the ruins of the marble cloisters and ivory towers that the Faction had carved out for itself there. The crew of the Faction’s warship had been instructed to stop at the planet en route to Dust, to tie up some loose ends while the vessel was in the vicinity.

The Mothers and Fathers of the Eleven-Day Empire felt that the abandoned colony was now something of a liability. The Time Lords were bound to investigate events on Dust, and there was a very real risk of Gallifrey’s agents noticing what the Faction had been up to in the systems nearby, even if those systems had already been evacuated.

Typical of the Faction, the skeleton of the warship was quite literally a skeleton. A great horned skull at the prow, with the central corridor running through the spine, kilometres of electrical wiring threaded through the spaces where the nerve clusters had been. Once upon a time, before the lesser humanoid cultures had started spreading their empires across space-time, giants had walked this galaxy; and the Daemons had been princes among those giants, masters of arcane genetic science, beings capable of shrinking themselves down to the size of an atom or blowing themselves up to the size of a small moon with a single thought (given enough raw matter to work with, naturally). The Daemons of the military had grown vast wings from their shoulder blades, then given themselves spatiodynamic bodies with swept-back horns and necks like the necks of swans, allowing them to glide through hy-perspace with the minimum of effort. When the Daemons had faced their own private G´’Ã˝

utterd´’ammerung, many of their number had died in full ‘battle mode’, and their remains were still highly prized by Faction Paradox. The 191

skeletons made perfect infrastructures for the Faction’s warships, partly because of the way they looked, but mostly because of the aeons of power that had been absorbed and stored by the giants’ bones. The vessel that had been sent to Dust was the smallest of the six surviving Faction Paradox warships, and it had been built around a skeleton from the Daemons’ own homeworld, unearthed long after the planet had been infested by the lesser races.

Inside the skull of the vessel, certain orders were given to the ship’s technicians. The warship promptly opened its mouth, and thirty seconds later every single settlement on the colony planet had simply ceased to exist. The evidence had been removed from the face of history, once and for all.

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