Artemis Vane

Professor Artemis Vane was a scientist who discovered how to create an incision in the space-time continuum.

Biography
Artemis had no difficulty making friends due to her outgoing personality. At the age of forty, she met and fell in love with Martin Chesleworth, to whom she was happily married for ten years. However, he suffered from a congenital disease and she spent a lot of time caring for him at his bedside before he died. She felt cheated by the fact that she had met Marty late in life and that he was taken away from her so quickly, so she began experimenting in time travel.

After twenty-one years, Artemis succeeded in making an incision in the space-time continuum and travelled back forty-nine years to the loneliest time in Marty's life in order to give him company, sitting with him at lunch and making his acquaintance. She was not affected by the crab-like creatures due to her being a time-traveller and attempted to find out what was wrong with the other researchers to no avail.

Artemis was made aware of the cause of the phenomenon after the Sixth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard arrived on the station. She helped the Doctor make a machine to get rid of the crabs and was forced to admit the truth when he confronted her about being a time-traveller, a truth which Charley understood but which angered the Doctor due to the risk to the Web of Time. Artemis said goodbye to Marty, telling him that she was "no one", and went with the two travellers in the TARDIS.

The Doctor took Artemis to her own time, to a beach planet with blue sands and violet skies. (AUDIO: These Stolen Hours)

Personality
Unlike her husband, Artemis was very outgoing. She was intelligent and believed that she could have handled either meeting Marty late in life or losing him early, but not both. (AUDIO: These Stolen Hours)

Appearance
When Artemis went back in time, she had bright pink hair and horn-rimmed glasses. (AUDIO: These Stolen Hours)