Helmstone was the thirty-secondSubscriber Short Trips audio story. It featured theFirst Doctor andSteven Taylor and was available to subscribers ofBig Finish's mainDoctor Who range whose subscription includedThe Silurian Candidate andTime in Office.

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Landing on the generation shipNot-Home, Steven and the Doctor find the TARDIS drained of power and unable to take off again for months, if not years. They meet Korra, an inhabitant of Not-Home who carries a Helmstone - an artefact that requires her to present herself at the city for a ritual. The three of them undergo the journey together, but the Doctor and Steven suspect that all is not as it seems...

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Characters[[edit] |[edit source]]

• First Doctor
• Steven Taylor
• Korra

Worldbuilding[[edit] |[edit source]]

• Not-Home is an asteroid-ship designed to take its people betweenOld-Home andNew-Home, although much of their historical knowledge has been lost.

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Continuity[[edit] |[edit source]]

• Steven remembersSara Kingdom (TV:The Daleks' Master Plan) andBarbara Wright andIan Chesterton. (TV:The Chase)
• Korra looks into Steven's future and predicts that he will one day stop travelling once he finds a place where he can help others (TV: The Savages)