The Flight of the Sun God (audio story)

 was an exclusive-to-audio story from BBC Audio featuring the Sixth Doctor. It was read by Nicola Bryant.

Publisher's summary
The TARDIS lands aboard the Sun God, a vast spaceship carrying executives from a powerful 35th Century energy company. Peri is menaced by deadly cat-like robots, whilst the Doctor discovers that Spalding Revere, the company's founder, has set the ship on course for the heart of a sun. Spalding's last wish is to take his acolytes with him to the afterlife, and unless the Doctor can intervene he and Peri will be going with them.

Tensions and in-fighting grow among the staff. Peri meets Brian, whose half-man/half-insect body has a terrible significance to Spalding's plan. As the Sun God continues on its final mission, time is running out for them all...

Plot
The Doctor and Peri arrive aboard the sphinx-shaped Sun God in the Metellus Cluster in the 35th century and examine the metal hieroglyphs on the walls, some of which the Doctor recognises as belonging in the tomb of Seti. Looking at facts and figures on a monitor, the Doctor realises that something is wrong, but a group of robot cats arrive before he can elaborate and are interested only in Peri. He sends her back into the TARDIS for her safety and warns the board of executives of Sun God Intergalactic that the spaceship is flying into the heart of Magnox Major, a sun. This, Warren, Lorraine and Fletnix explain, is the point as the ship's function is to draw off energy.

Duncan, head of security, arrests the Doctor for being a stowaway and, in his cell, the Doctor watches an informative video presented by the Egypt-loving CEO Spalding Revere. The board come to believe that the Doctor is Revere in disguise as part of the Boss in Disguise vidprogramme and release him, although he does not understand why he has been let out and why he is suddenly being treated so differently. He warns them that the Sun God is actually being pulled towards Tyresus Minor and asks to speak to technical executive Brian, only to learn that he has been missing for several days. He then has Fletnix, Head of Customer Services, escort him to the navigational computer in Revere's sanctum.

Peri tries to leave the TARDIS when the robot cats fail to move, but they immediately target her and she returns inside. On the TARDIS scanner, she sees a man with a sack over his head and a mechanical voice get rid of the cats and ask her to come out, introducing himself as Brian. She steps outside and gets him to remove the sack, revealing that, although he is human, his head is now that of a beatle.

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Characters

 * Sixth Doctor
 * Peri Brown
 * Spalding Revere
 * Fletnix
 * Brian Meadows
 * Duncan
 * Lorraine
 * Warren

Worldbuilding

 * According to the Doctor, some pyramids on Earth were built by aliens. Most of them were vapourised by the Egyptian Tourist Board because of the Great Galactic Copyright Wars in the 23rd century.
 * The Doctor uses his torch.
 * Some of the hieroglyphs come from the tomb of Seti in the 1st century BC.
 * Duncan is Head of Security.
 * Fletnix is Head of Customer Services. She is a Salamandrel from the Shindle Cluster.
 * The Sun God is owned by Sun God Intergalactic.
 * Warren is Head of Planetary Sales.
 * Lorraine is Head of Marketing.
 * Lorraine believes that Fletnix is only on the board of executives because of positive discrimination.
 * The Doctor has always had a soft spot for cats.
 * The Doctor has a clockwork mouse in his pocket.
 * "Here Comes the Sun" is a song sung by George Harrison.
 * Boss in Disguise is a documentary show on Alpha Beta 12.
 * Brian is the technical executive.
 * Brian has read Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis.

Continuity

 * The Doctor half expected to be interrogated using a mind probe. (TV: Day of the Daleks, Frontier in Space, etc.)
 * When the Doctor thinks he is about to die he says, "I've had good innings." He would later echo these words before his actual death and regeneration into his Seventh incarnation. (AUDIO: The Brink of Death)