Deimos (audio story)

Deimos was the fifth release of the fourth series of Eighth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary
Millions of years ago, the noble Ice Warriors fled to Deimos, moon of Mars, hoping to sit out the radioactive death throes of their home planet. When the TARDIS lands on Deimos, the Doctor discovers that the Warriors' ancient catacombs are now a popular stop for space tourists.

But the Martian dynasties are more than history, and the Warriors are far from extinct. It's not for nothing that "Deimos" is the ancient word for "dread"...

Plot
There's a museum about Ice Warriors on Deimos, one of Mars' moons. The Eighth Doctor and Tamsin sneak into a guided tour, which quickly goes wrong when the actual Ice Warriors are resurrected by an unknown force. The resident professor on the topic helps the Ice Warriors out, fully believing that they'll appreciate his dedication to them. They don't. As the Doctor and Tamsin scramble to rescue all of the tourists, the Ice Warriors come up with a plan to re-colonise Mars, their rightful home planet, and to get rid of all of the humans living there. The Doctor offers to find a new planet for them, but they're a bit cross at him, seeing as he's the one who defeated them last time and enabled human colonisation and all.

Just as the Doctor manages to get 600 people into a 500-person escape ship and plans to defeat the Ice Warriors once again, he gets a message... from Lucie Miller, who's stranded in the middle of the battle. The Doctor has to make a choice: defeat the Ice Warriors or save Lucie.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Tamsin Drew - Niky Wardley
 * Professor Boston Schooner - David Warner
 * Gregson Grenville - Nicky Henson
 * Margaret - Susan Brown
 * Temperance Finch / Mrs Grenville - Tracy Ann Oberman
 * Harold - Nick Wilton
 * The Ice Warriors / Security Leader - Nicholas Briggs
 * Pilot - Jack Brown

Deimos

 * After the destruction of Mars' atmosphere, the Ice Warriors fled to Deimos.

Mars

 * Harold and Margaret are residents of one of the Martian colonies.
 * The Martian terraforming project was cancelled due to the advent of the Great Recession and technical difficulties surrounding the planned atmospheric ionisation technique.
 * About three hundred thousand people live on Mars.

Ice Warriors

 * The Doctor tells one of the Ice Warriors that there are more of his people in suspended animation on an asteroid in the Sol system and that they will awake in several hundred years and found a new homeworld.
 * The Doctor is familiar with the second dynasty.

Tamsin Drew

 * Tamsin worked at the London dungeon for one summer, during which she played one of the prostitutes who was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Gallifreyan technology

 * Schooner claims that the Doctor's sonic screwdriver "does not look much like a screwdriver."



Continuity

 * The Ice Lord Izdaal was the greatest Ice Warrior who ever lived in Martian society. His studies determined that Mars' atmosphere was no longer capable of keeping out radiation from space. This would eventually kill them all. He told the government that their turmoil was not over and with the evidence of sickening children, he declared that their world was no longer sustainable. He was ignored by his people. Lord Izdaal made the ultimate sacrifice. To prove himself right, he elected to step outside and face the Red Dawn, knowing he would die. His death led to his people coming to the same conclusion and they worked to survive, slowly becoming a conqueror race that took what they wanted from others. (AUDIO: Red Dawn)
 * During his second incarnation, the Doctor encountered the Ice Warriors for the first time on the Brittanicus Base during an Ice Age in the company of Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield. (TV: The Ice Warriors)
 * The Doctor tells Tamsin that he witnessed the destruction of Mars' atmosphere million of years earlier. (AUDIO: The Judgement of Isskar)
 * Harold recalls seeing a documentary on the History Channel which stated that the last of the Ice Warriors were killed when their invasion fleet spiralled into the Sun in the late 21st century. The Doctor tells Tamsin, Professor Schooner and Grenville Gregson that he witnessed that event as well. (TV: The Seeds of Death)
 * Grenville refers to the "hippie holiday camp" on Phobos. The Doctor and Lucie Miller previously visited Lunar Park in 2589. (AUDIO: Phobos)