The Seventh Segment (comic story)

Summary
The tracer brings the Doctor, Romana and K-9 to the political corrupt colony world of Vyga 3. Where the Doctor’s arrival gives him possession of a briefcase which two gangs are desperate to get their hands on. Believing the briefcase to contain a secret weapon the two sides agree to work together. Leaving the briefcase and making an escape to the TARDIS the Doctor and Romana watch on the scanner as the case is opened and releases a fluctuating chronon wave that rapidly degenerates those in close proximity. The Black Guardians trap is foiled.

Characters

 * Boss Gangster determined to retrieve a briefcase containing secrets stolen from the wasteland labs.
 * Fluctuating chronon wave a devasting wave which expels a lot of energy over a short range, over a short period of time. The effect of accelerating time so rapidly, is to give off enormous heat that ages to death and burns anything in its immediate range. Fortunately the wave is soon dispersed. A fluctuating chronon wave was encapsulated in a briefcase and was planted on Vyga 3 by the Black Guardian in an attempt to stop the Doctor in his quest to recover the Key to Time. The wave device was powerful enough to register with the tracer device given to the Doctor in order to locate the various segments.
 * Sneech, Mr  henchman of the Boss on Vyga 3, assigned to retrieve a briefcase containing material from the labs in the wasteland. Destroyed when the material turned out to be a fluctuating chronon wave was released, along with Yanski and Phaedra with whom he formed a temporary alliance against the Doctor.
 * Vyga 3 planetoid with a breathable atmosphere, an Earth colony was established around 2350AD in a city that was surrounded by wasteland. It featured an eccentric mix of cultures which resulted in an ineffective legal and policing system controlled on the streets by gangs and Bosses.
 * Yanski (male) and Phaedra (female) Partners in crime and rivals to the Boss on Vyga 3, determined to retrieve a briefcase containing secrets stolen from the wasteland labs and accidentally stolen by the Doctor.They were destroyed when the material turned out to be a fluctuating chronon wave was released, along with Mr Sneech with who they had formed a temporary alliance to defeat the Doctor.

Original Print Details (Publication with page count)

 * 1) DWMS Summer 1995  (8)   A special Season 16 Key to Time themed issue.

Reprints

 * None

Continuity
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