Decoy (short story)

 was the tenth short story in The Target Storybook.

Publisher's summary
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Plot
's plan to lure the Daleks into a trap by using an armada of unwitting Time Lords led by an Auton duplicate of the Doctor draws the fury of the real War Doctor. After programming his duplicate to send the Time Lord armada retreating from the Dalek fleet, the Doctor sends another Auton duplicate to berate Rassilon, while he steals weaponry from the Time Lord armoury. Having seeded the atmospheres of a system of gas giants with proximity mines, the Doctor lures the Daleks into his trap – and as his enemies' ships trip the mines, the Doctor escapes the ensuing conflagration in his TARDIS.

Characters

 * War Doctor
 * War Doctor (Auton)
 * Artarix
 * Adjunct
 * Daleks
 * Daleks

Continuity

 * The Seventh Doctor previously destroyed the similarly named Althosian system which also had Seven Planets. (PROSE: The Pit)
 * Artarix has seen the "new horrors" being employed by Skaro. (PROSE: Engines of War)
 * mentions the Daleks referring to the Doctor as "the Predator". (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
 * Rassilon makes an arrangement with the Nestene Consciousness after previously fighting a war with them. (PROSE: Pandoric's Box)
 * The War Doctor avoids remnants of Time Lords whose regnerations failed while in the Cloisters. (TV: Hell Bent)