h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

After much success with the first two tales I set my sights on firmly establishing character and so through a myriad of concepts I utilised the deployment of a menace that had been brewing more years.

THE DARK DAWN.

The Doctor had faced adversaries all his lives, the monstrous races has some agenda but were ultimate realised as insane evil monstrosities or if they were humanoid they were universal dominators, I chose to break this mould.

The Doctor arrives in London, the classic setting foe many of his adventures but instead would emerge within a rather dark, grim place free from what he knew to be correct history.
This was canvas that I used to play out the Doctor against an original villain with a very original agenda.

Though borrowing such motives as the monk, the entire or recorded history had been shattered and in its place there lay a Totalitarian regime existing in a year of 1984, an Orwellian nightmare ruled over by two opposing factions while the bulk of the country was locked in a war lasting for four centuries.

Such a mean to create a comic-like encounter with many machine creations was a joy as it helped to expand that this Doctor have been any particular Doctor, I was not sure at the time when I wrote it.

With two factions, where one highly ambitious and cold wished for the bloodshed to flow forward while peace was on the otherside, so naturally readers would assume that the dark leader would be the villain.

Instead I concealed his true agenda behind a unique mask of a psuedonym of Phillips. A sole surviving Minister aimed towards the economy though his motives are rather less pleasant for the world while inhabiting a dark fortress overlooking the city.
He was meant to be a tragic villain, one who had suffered so much and with a much greater twist his motive was revealled to be revenge.

His backstory though clouded was that his race, peaceful explorers through time like the Time Lords were wiped out by a space power, humanity, thus such an enigmatic twist would no doubt have caused bewilderment in both the Doctor and the reader.
Phillips is not a madman but a scarred traumatised victim desperate to bring back his lost world stolen from him and later that his agony was extended by the Time Lords refusing only makes him even more tragic.

His plan though concealed is ultimately undone by the Doctor who feels determined yet sad to commit that act and leaves the city as time returns to normal but breaking originality almost acting like the Master, Phillips is far from dead and his vengeance campaign has only just started.

ADJUSTING TIMES.

Now that the Doctor had been secured and I had other avenues to explore I returned my attention to my Cyber tale Rogue and composed a follow up.

As in Rogue I had explored his feelings of loss and the introduction of a friend to become companion was necessary, though this story held three things in place: Belief, Trust and Fear.

Arriving on an unnamed planet Artrem discovers a city in ruins though a sole survivor is scared by who and what he represents, her persecutors are not far away.

Cybermen, though not quite those seen in Rogue are control of the situation and it enabled me to introduce the link of religion to the mixture. The creatures represent life beyond death and in many ways are immortal, clean and pure- angels and I had considered why this had never been picked up?

Though with the accompanyment of Cybermats, these creatures were similar to the Tenth-planet variety and were visably more human in their appeance and manner, gruesomely portrayed as inhuman body snatchers and after the girl Nicole.

Though Artrem looked an newer model to them, it was always in my mind to create a series of Cyber-orientated stories that continued Doctorless so gaining their trust was easily done.

Though the inclusion of a mad priest pushed belief into place as his fanatical beliefs that these creatures are Gods made it work for the story, that watching his people's inhuman torture as their grusome alteration into Cybermen is made.
His smirks are as profounds as his frantic screams to the CyberPlanner in the centre of the Cyber ship whether it is a God?

So fitting that while all Cybermen are destroyed that the Planner still continues its relentless of rhetoric, knowing that it has little time left. All in all Nicole is the only survial and all she has left is Artrem.

The Cybermat bit was a nice touch of adopting one for a pet, the Doctor has had a cat and K9 but never something as alien as it.

All in all this setup was complete and soon after this I would use these two firmly made characters yet again in whayt I promised would be an epic of universal proportions.