The Fall of Yquatine (novel)

The Fall of Yquatine was the thirty-second novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Nick Walters. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Compassion.

Publisher’s summary
Yquatine — cultural, political and economic centre of the Minerva System. A planet with a month to live.

Fitz knows. He was there when Yquatine fell. Now, trapped a month in the past, he doesn’t know if the Doctor survived. He doesn’t know where Compassion has gone. He doesn’t know who the invaders will be.

But he does know the date and time when he will die with the millions of others.

The Doctor teams up with Lou Lombardo — part-time dodgy temporal gadget salesman and full-time pie seller. Compassion is lost in time and space. And Fitz is living out his final days working in a seedy cocktail bar, where he meets Arielle, the President’s runaway girlfriend. But is she really the best person to shack up with?

As the Doctor tries to talk sense into the politicians and soldiers, and Compassion tries to avert the war, Fitz is about to discover that things can only get worse.

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Is paranoid about being tracked by the Time Lords.
 * Is glad that he doesn't have to shave after seeing how dishevelled people have gotten after the Fall.
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Sides with Compassion over the Doctor's forcing of the Randomiser on Compassion.
 * Compassion
 * This is the first novel where Compassion is "the TARDIS" for the Doctor and Fitz.
 * She conceptualises her dematerialisation sequence as FEAR - Focus, Engage Engines, Artron Energy, Randomiser.
 * She makes use of her functioning chameleon circuit to gather information about the attack on Yquatine.
 * Finds it easier to track Fitz through time than the Doctor.
 * Lou Lombardo
 * President Stefan Vargeld
 * Arielle Markhof
 * Grand Gynarch
 * Ralf Petersen
 * Sorswo
 * Zendaak
 * Anthaurk

Continuity

 * Chateau Yquatine is known as being a relatively good wine in Dry Pilgrimage.
 * The Doctor mentions giant rats whilst in the sewers of Yquatine. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
 * Fitz remembers helping to save the creatures of the Dominion. (PROSE: Dominion)
 * Fitz remembers Filippa (PROSE: Parallel 59)