Echoes of the Mogor! (comic story)

Echoes of the Mogor! was a Seventh Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Summary
The TARDIS materialises in a human survey base on the planet Mekrom, but the Doctor finds the base deserted, apart from a single dead body. The crystal ore lying next to the body has retained the dead man's empathic patterns, and the warmth of the Doctor's touch activates a holographic recording of the dead man describing his expedition's discoveries. A Foreign Hazard Duty team arrives in response to the expedition's distress call, and they assume the Doctor to be the team's medical officer. Although all of the evidence suggests that the planet's former inhabitants, the warlike Mogor, are extinct, two FHD team members are attacked by a Mogor while exploring the base; however, when the Doctor studies their bodies, he finds that they in fact died of shock brought on by terror. When he accesses the expedition's data files and learns that the empathic crystal came from this very planet, he realises the truth, and leads the FHD team to a seam of the ore to demonstrate. The "Mogor" which attacked the others was not real, but merely an echo from the crystals; and its victims, and the expedition members, died of terror. When another Mogor attacks the FHD team, the Doctor dispels it by refusing to accept its reality. The FHD team departs, to report that there were in fact no murders on this planet.

Plot
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Characters

 * Seventh Doctor

Continuity

 * The Doctor is attempting to visit Maruthea. He achieves this goal in COMIC: Party Animals.