Mark Seven


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Mark Seven was an android member of the Space Security Service, a colleague of Jason Corey and Sara Kingdom.

He was described as "handsome in the most classical sense. His features and physique are perfect, one in the mould of Adonis, Dorian Grey and the Greek gods. A sculptor asked to produce the ideal male would design Mark Seven. Indeed this is precisely what has happened. Mark Seven is an android. An android so perfectly produced that only detailed laboratory examination would reveal him as a complex of micro-motors, gears, circuitry, computers, plastic and steel. His mechanical origins give him enormous advantages: he could run non-stop and at high speed for 30 miles, his body requires no sleep and his computerised brain holds an encyclopedia of knowledge. Normal human senses are amplified to an astonishing degree, but despite these superman qualities he is still vulnerable. He can be killed, his circuits randomised or damaged, and he can tire, his energy cells discharge. Mark Seven's manufacturers had placed great stress on giving him humanoid qualities. He has a loyalty circuit and an emotion circuit, although the latter is always subservient to his rigorous logic. His only defect is that his speech pattern is always rather pedantic and formal, like a foreigner with faultless English. Sometimes Mark Seven selects words from his vocabulary cells that are a little too correct, his diction a little too precise, but this apart, to all intents and purposes, Mark Seven is human." (The Destroyers (unproduced spin-off), BFA: The Destroyers)

In the late 40th century Mark Seven traveled with fellow SSS members Jason Corey and Sara Kingdom on the Space Exploration Team mission to the surface of the giant meteorite M5. Within two days, the Exploration Team, which included Sara's brother David Kingdom, had established a pre-fabricated base called Explorer Base One, protected by a force field. They believed the meteorite devoid of intelligent life, but the base was attacked by Daleks while the SSS agents were searching the wider area. The only survivor from the crew was David, who was taken captive for interrogation. Discovering the Daleks' secret underground hideout, the SSS agents tried to rescue David and destroy the Daleks, but arrived too late to stop the Dalek ship escaping with their prisoner. (BFA: The Destroyers)

Behind the scenes
The characters of SSS agents Sara Kingdom and 'Agent Seven' had already appeared in The Dalek Outer Space Book published in September 1966. The version of Mark Seven seen in The Destroyers is a prototype of what actually got published first: the Mark Seven of the Anti-Dalek Force, featured in the 1970s Dalek Annuals. Unlike the SSS Mark Seven, the ADF Mark Seven was far more "human". His human colleagues, Reb Shavron and Joel Shaw, for instance, had no idea he wasn't human.