The Guardian of the Solar System (audio story)


 * For the political office, see Guardian of the Solar System.

Publisher's summary
Space Security Agent Sara Kingdom is dead, her ashes strewn on the planet Kembel. But, in an old house in Ely, Sara Kingdom lives on…

Now joined in the house by her confidante Robert, Sara recalls her travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor – and a particular adventure when the ship appeared to land inside a giant clock, where old men are caught in its workings…

And behind this nightmare is an old enemy: Mavic Chen, Guardian of the Solar System.

Then and now, Sara's past is catching up with her. The cogs have come full circle…

Cast

 * Sara Kingdom - Jean Marsh
 * Robert - Niall MacGregor

Crew
to be added

Story notes

 * This audio drama was recorded on 25 November 2009.

Continuity

 * This story explains why Sara is always seen in her SSS uniform during The Daleks' Master Plan, despite travelling well outside her jurisdiction. Sara explains that she thought herself indivisible from her oath of service at that time, and that her uniform represented that oath.

Timeline
As with the entire Simon Guerrier Sara Kingdom trilogy, this story can be placed on a timeline based on the two major halves of the story.

In terms of the present-day conversation between Robert and Sara, The Guardian of the Solar System occurs after: CC: The Drowned World.

The flashback involving Sara, Steven and the Doctor, however, occurs at a time before even DW: "The Nightmare Begins". However, this is because the TARDIS crew have travelled back in time to a point where Bret Vyon still lives. From Sara's perspective, it's still some time between "The Feast of Steven" and "Volcano".

Placing this flashback relative to the flashbacks contained in The Drowned World and Home Truths is a matter of debate, because the reliability of Sara as a storyteller is called into question in Home Truths. That Sara tells the flashback in Drowned in such a way that it seems to have occurred after the flashback in Guardian could simply be, as Robert points out, the embellishments of a woman who's told the same stories for centuries.