The Architects of History (audio story)

The year is2044.Earth is enjoying a Golden Age of peace, prosperity and technological advancement... but somebody is plotting to destroy all that. TheSelachians,shark-like alien monsters, launch a crippling attack on Earth'sMoonbase, using deadly weapons from the future.

Help is at hand. Apolice telephone box appears in a Moonbase hangar. A time-travelling hero has returned in the hour of Earth's greatest need. Now,Elizabeth Klein must fight to save not only the Galactic Reich but Time itself from the mysterious prisoner who has orchestrated these fateful events... theDoctor.

Plot[[edit] |[edit source]]

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Cast[[edit] |[edit source]]

The Doctor -Sylvester McCoy
Elizabeth Klein -Tracey Childs
Rachel Cooper -Lenora Crichlow
Sam Kirke -Ian Hayles
Major Richter -Jamie Parker
General-Lieutenant Tendexter -Lloyd McGuire
TheSelachian Leader -Chris Porter
Feldwebel / Computer Voice -Rachel Laurence
Pilot /Selachian -David Dobson

Worldbuilding[[edit] |[edit source]]

Alternative timelines[[edit] |[edit source]]

In thealternate timeline, Rachel was working in a garage on Earth when she met the Doctor and became his companion. They fought theDaleks on more than one occasion, theSontarans, theSelachians and theAutons. The last time they fought the Daleks, they threatened the entire universe. She considers the Doctor her best friend. He eventually returned her to her old life but ensured that she would be reassigned to the Moonbase within days. Once on the Moon, she found that the Doctor was a prisoner and he had left her a list of instructions. According to Rachel, their plan was to meet at Hangar 14 after the Selachian incursion had begun and to travel back in time to restore the proper timeline.

The Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]

The Doctor remembers Klein stealing his TARDIS on theVrill colony and time reshaping itself around him over and over again until he found himself in his cell on the Moonbase three days earlier. He has no memory of his alternative self's intentions or actions prior to his consciousness replacing that of his counterpart. Consequently, he is unaware of the location of his alternative self's TARDIS.

Individuals[[edit] |[edit source]]

Oberst Klein and Major Richter are the director and assistant director respectively of Temporal Affairs of the Reich.
Sam was brought to the Moonbase from the future by the Selachians as a spy. He was instructed to get close to Rachel. A device was implanted in his brain which uploaded his memories to the Selachian mothership every time he slept because they could not risk ordinary radio communication. This indicates the Selachians that the alternative Doctor was plotting against them all along.
In the proper timeline, the Doctor and Rachel never met, as evidenced by the fact that he did not recognise her name when Klein mentioned it to him. Consequently, Rachel is left behind on the Moonbase as it is destroyed. Before she dies, Rachel says that her biggest fear is that the Doctor will never find her in the proper timeline and she will live out "her humdrum life" never knowing what she could have been and what else she could have seen. She laments that while she is not afraid of dying as everyone eventually dies, she is terrified of never having truly lived.
In the proper timeline, Dr. Elizabeth Klein was born in theUnited Kingdom to German parents. She became known for her triumphs working forUNIT. Her personality appeared to be the same except that she devoted her talents to the protection of Earth. On meeting the Doctor, she recognised him slightly although the experiences of the alternative Klein had been erased from history.

Politics[[edit] |[edit source]]

In thealternate timeline,2044 is the hundredth year of the Golden Age of the Galactic Reich.
Klein tells the Doctor that, in 2044, a unified Earth government has eradicated famine, averted wars and repelled alien invasions.

Species[[edit] |[edit source]]

Klein has bought about the defeat of theSontarans and theDaleks in thealternate timeline. Dalek technology has been integrated into the Reich ships being built at theMoonbase.
TheSelachians are walking armoured sharks who are ruthless and entirely without pity. They were the scourge of their galaxy and it took Klein many months and many trips in the TARDIS to prevent them from conquering the Milky Way Galaxy. In 2044, they had not developed either their armoured suits or space travel. They refer tohumans as "plankton." The design of their ships is also reminiscent of sharks.
The alternative Doctor provided theSelachian Empire with time travel technology which enabled six of their ships to travel back in time to the Moonbase in 2044. He also gave them explicit instructions on how to conquer it, telling them to destroy the protective dome around the base. He made a deal with the Selachian Supreme Leader that Klein would be turned over to him. However, he seemingly underestimated the Selachians' intelligence as he did not anticipate that they would be able to recreate the time travel technology.
Rachel tells Sam that the Selachians are all equipped with organically growntransmat modules which are reminiscent ofworms and have a distinctly unpleasant smell. TheZygons have a similar technology.

TARDIS[[edit] |[edit source]]

The console room of the alternative Doctor's TARDIS has black walls and low lighting.
Richter sets course for the Central Records Office inBerlin in2144 in order to learn the outcome of the Selachian incursion on the Moonbase. However, the device which Rachel had Sam Kirke place on the TARDIS anchored it to 2044, triggering theCloister Bell. It eventually rematerialised a hundred metres away from its previous location. The device tore the internal dimensions of the TARDIS from its external dimensions, turning it into an ordinarypolice box.
The alternative Doctor programmed theperception filter of his TARDIS to make it appear as a stone ziggurat which no one other than himself and Rachel would be able to see.
The alternative Doctor did not travel to the Moonbase to execute Klein but to erase her from history, which could be achieved by pushing a button on his TARDIS console. The Doctor from the proper timeline eventually does this.

Time travel[[edit] |[edit source]]

Klein and Richter travelled back in time to the Moonbase to arrest a traitor, Karen Montoya, before she had a chance to betray the Reich. They were authorised to do so by a future version of General-Lieutenant Adolf Tendexter, the commander of the Moonbase.
In the alternative timeline, the Doctor and Klein first met in his cell on the Moonbase several months earlier. She tells him that, in another timeline, they travelled together in the TARDIS.
After gaining possession of the TARDIS, Klein attempted to restore her timeline (which she regards as the original one) but the TARDIS would not allow her to cross her owntime track.
Prior to her arrival on the Moonbase, Klein's last encounter with Tendexter in her personal timeline was in2048.
In the current timeline, Tendexter was decorated for his role in the Dalek War. In the previous timeline, however, he cracked under pressure when the Dalek fleet arrived at the Moonbase. In another timeline, he reacted in a similar manner when the Sontarans arrived.
Klein tells the Doctor that she has performed hundreds of revisions to the timeline.

Weapons[[edit] |[edit source]]

Richter's weapon, aplasma pistol which firesplasma bullets, was "built by the finest weapon-smiths of the31st century." His body armour is from the same era and, unlike Selachian armour, is able to withstand the full force of Selachian weapons fire.
During the Selachians' attack on Earth, the pilot Eagle-114 witnesses entire continents burning.

Substances[[edit] |[edit source]]

The Moonbase's operations centre is reinforced by twenty metreDalekanium bulkheads.

Technology[[edit] |[edit source]]

While the Selachian leader was distracted by his dealings with the Doctor, Tendexter set the Moonbase's reactor core to explode. He adjusted the frequency of the reactor core output so that it bounces the Selachians' transmat signals back towards the Moonbase.

Notes[[edit] |[edit source]]

Steve Lyons is also the author ofAUDIO:Colditz and the creator of the character of Klein.
This story marks the first appearance of theSelachians in an audio drama. They were another of Steve Lyons' creations, originated in the novelThe Murder Game.
This audio drama was recorded on1 and2 August 2009 atthe Moat Studios.
The story was broadcast onBBC Radio 4 Extra on30-31 May and1 and4 June 2012, forming a radio season with the prior Klein stories.
Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short storyThe Doctor's First XI.
This story is set afterSurvival.
This story was originally released on CD and download on10 March 2010.^[1]

Continuity[[edit] |[edit source]]

The Doctor mentions Klein's loverMajor Jonas Faber from her original timeline in1965. (AUDIO:Klein's Story)
The Doctor refers to his and Klein's encounter with theCheylis inBritish Kenya in1953 (AUDIO:A Thousand Tiny Wings) and their visit to the Hatching Yard of theVrill colony. (AUDIO:Survival of the Fittest)
The Doctor previously encountered the Selachians on at least three occasions during hissecond incarnation in the proper timeline. (PROSE:The Murder Game,AUDIO:The Selachian Gambit,PROSE:The Final Sanction)
In the proper timeline, Klein recognises the Doctor from descriptions of his appearance and mentions his presence during theShoreditch Incident in1963, (TV:Remembrance of the Daleks) inKenya during theMau Mau Uprising in1953 (AUDIO:A Thousand Tiny Wings) and at theShangri-La holiday camp inWales in1959. (TV:Delta and the Bannermen) The Doctor tells her that he also visitedColditz Castle inOctober 1944. (AUDIO:Colditz)

Footnotes[[edit] |[edit source]]

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