TheLast of Erebus (known toTorchwood asObject 1, theBad Penny, theConcordex, theSilas Oblast and toJack Harkness as theRed Key) was a locket that had the power to select the worst possible future for those in its vicinity.

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The object was given bythe Committee to the TsarAlexander ofRussia in order to weaken the country with its power of badluck, causing a rise in infant mortality amongst other things. The Tsar gave the object toQueen Victoria. Upon learning of the object's power, she gave it to Jack Harkness to throw into theCardiff Space-Time Rift. Holding onto it for a while, he eventually did so in1914, when theFirst World War started.

In1924, it was in the possession ofTorchwood India and was sent to London by DuchessEleanor after Jack Harkness took all of its other alien artefacts back to Britain.

Thelittle girl came into possession of it, and gave it toAlex Hopkins in1999. (AUDIO:The Torchwood Archive) He opened it and saw the future, causing him to kill his team-mates to spare them before killing himself. (TV:Fragments,AUDIO:The Torchwood Archive)

Suzie Costello came across the object in a piece of machinery in a factory creating robotic duplicates. Jack had her callYvonne Hartman and give it to her in order to get it out ofTorchwood Three's hands. After theBattle of Canary Wharf,Kieran Frost gave it toIanto Jones to take to Torchwood Three, although Kieran had been told by Yvonne to throw it into the void. (AUDIO:The Torchwood Archive)

The Committee once again came into possession of the object and gave it toAnna Volokova to give toToshiko Sato. (AUDIO:Zone 10) She managed to reverse engineer it to give good luck, but felt that nobody should have that power and sent it into another dimension, removing her memories of it usingretcon.

Object 1 returned through the Rift and arrived atthe Hub with Jack, Tosh, Ianto andGwen Cooper. (AUDIO:The Torchwood Archive)

The Committee used a hologram of Norton in order to manipulateAndy Davidson. Andy found the object in a crashed spaceship, and Norton showed it to the Committee and took it back to 1953 per their wishes. (AUDIO:Ghost Mission) He gave it toMandrake. (AUDIO:The Torchwood Archive)

Norton and his loverJeremiah Bash Henderson planned to use the object to revive the Committee after their defeat in their war against the Enemy. To do this, Jeremiah infiltrated theTorchwood Archive to discover how it could be done, before exploding the place. (AUDIO:The Torchwood Archive)