A Device of Death (novel)

A Device of Death was the thirty-first novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series.

Publisher's summary

 * "As a member of an inferior race, you either work to serve the cause of Averon, or die."

Sarah Jane is marooned on a slave world where the only escape is death. Harry is caught in the middle of an interplanetary invasion, and has to combine medicine with a desperate mission. And the Fourth Doctor lands on a world so secret it does not even have a name.

Why have the TARDIS crew been scattered across the stars? What terrible accident could have wiped the Doctor's memory? And what could interest the Time Lords in this war-torn sector of space?

At the heart of a star-spanning conspiracy lies an ancient quest: people have been making weapons since the dawn of time — but perhaps someone has finally discovered the ultimate device of death.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Harry Sullivan
 * Andez
 * Arken'rek
 * Backley
 * Elyze Brant
 * Brastall
 * Callon'mal
 * Chell'lak
 * Crietz
 * Martyn Daw
 * Emberley
 * Farris
 * Baal Garikth-tal
 * Gillsen
 * Hensall
 * Barris Kambril
 * Lassiter
 * Olivor Malf (aka Admiral Zeff Dorling)
 * Angelyn Marcavos (aka 829)
 * Max
 * Morven
 * Nacroth'ves
 * Naversen
 * Oban
 * Orsang'tor
 * Pascal
 * Neels Prander
 * Scout
 * Cara Tarron
 * Mattew Tarron
 * Taxos
 * Thurval
 * Tramour'des
 * Vane
 * Brin Vender

The Doctor

 * The Doctor gives his age as seven hundred and forty-eight.
 * The Time Lords give the Doctor another TARDIS, one with a functioning chameleon circuit, but he gives it back.

Governments

 * Averon Union
 * Landoran Alliance

Locations

 * Adelphine Cluster
 * Averon
 * Calfon colony
 * Deepcity
 * Heliotrix
 * Jand
 * Tesh'gar
 * Tomar'yat
 * Landor
 * Oceanus
 * Tralsammavar

Science

 * MICA
 * neutronium
 * penatholene
 * synthoid

Spacecraft

 * Oranos
 * Rossberg

Species

 * Averonian
 * Garvantine
 * Glarrock
 * Jand
 * Maarcheen
 * Nethrass
 * Tarracosian
 * Tralsammavarian

Continuity

 * After departing from Skaro, the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry are scattered across the Adelphine Cluster due to temporal disruption interfering with the Time Ring.
 * The Doctor mentions adventures with the Daleks, the Aztecs, Atlanteans, the London Underground, the Peladon and the Minoan labyrinth of Crete.

Timeline

 * A Device of Death occurs after: DW: Genesis of the Daleks
 * A Device of Death occurs before: DW: Revenge of the Cybermen