User:Epsilon the Eternal/UNIT United Kingdom

On 23 November 2004, the BBC launched the U.N.I.T. website to coincide with the 2005 series of Doctor Who, one of several websites created at that time. While the website domain seems to have been bought by the BBC in 2004, the earliest archives of content on the site is from late April of 2005.

The website contained a mix of narrative and non-narrative prose fiction, all told from an in-universe perspective, as if you were reading the very pages on the in-universe website itself. The website prominently featured many references to the original era of Doctor Who. Currently, non-narrative information is treated as an invalid source on this Wiki, and is grouped here, while the narrative information are given separate pages.

UNIT History
This webpage gives an overview of the history of UNIT.

UNIT Press Releases
This webpage gives a list of web briefings released by UNIT to the public.

UNIT Conferences
This webpage announces a conference on Threat Containment and Response on 26 June, at UNIT Liaison, Maidstone Barracks, Kent, ME16. Speakers include:
 * Professor Gerard Robbins, JPL
 * Colonel J Hassell, UNIT
 * Dr Andy Conroy, Yale Dept of Security Studies
 * Dr Martin Stark, Kings College London Department of War Studies
 * Dr Jen Readies, Durham Advanced Strategy Division
 * Major Ben Keene, UNIT
 * Major Harry York, GCHQ
 * Sophie Collins, M15

Seminars include: Looking upward rather than outward, Civillians and confusions, Extreme press relations, and Alone in a crowd.

UNIT Publications
A list of new publications published by UNIT is given.


 * UVA-12/3 – Basic First Contact Procedures and Combatant Handling
 * UTE-3 – "If it doesn't breathe, how do I kill it?" – Common Field Questions Compendium A
 * UUE-3 – Unconventional Wounds and their Treatment
 * UTE-12 – "Hey Sarge, it's Tuesday again!" – Dealing with Common Displacement
 * UTE-13b – "Corporal Cooper, is that really you?" – Recognising impersonation in the field (this book replaced Corporal Cooper's Behaving Strangely)
 * UWP23 - Preventative maintenance and basic repair for UNIT-only ordnance
 * UUA-20 – Extra-Global Craft Handling (rev'd)
 * UVM67 - Maintenance Specifications for Non-Tactical Non-Wheeled Vehicle D890
 * UTP16 – Tax advice for UNIT personnel posted overseas
 * UAC-45 – Interim guidance on the ETE Extra-solar Contaminant Detection kit ver. 2.03.
 * UTE-15 – "It's in here with us!" Surviving confined situations
 * ULI33 – Introduction to Combat Logistics while using FtL Craft
 * UTE-17 – "Count the appendages once they're in a heap" – Proper Clean-up after operations
 * UTE-17 – "If you can't point it, don't fire it" Dealing with unconventional weapons
 * UCE87 – Packet Operation with Communications Transible Issue No.CT04
 * UTE-18 – "But what has happened to Luton?" Coping with common press enquiries

There are also books in the "Historical and Reminiscent" genre by UNIT
 * Don't Blame the Sergeant, Blame Your Boots! by R.H. Kelly
 * Space for Soldiering by Anthony Duarte
 * Mysterious Men and their Marvellous Machines by A. Hart-Martiny
 * Forces Other Than NATO: A history of Special Operations Units 1945-1989 by Peter Perou
 * Rubber-Soled Shoes and Silver-Tipped Bullets – A Life in Supplies by Sgt A.O. Osgood

UNIT News
The news webpage reports on several topics.


 * Major Bensington completed the Five Seas Challenge, raising over £17000 for charity. The Major is also going to have a placement in Conference Management.
 * The UNIT Archive and Records Section is looking to speak to any personnel who served at the Surrey station between 1967 and 1972 for a commemorative book.
 * Weapons training is undergoing at Advanced Anti-Personnel Combat Barracks to familarise front-line personnel with the "latest developments in the SLR-98 range of DSX". It is imperative that any soldier to use these weapons must be trained fully or disasterous mistakes wll be made.
 * The secure UNITNet for use by UNIT personnel and their families, is being expanded, including features such as instant messaging as well as financial options.


 * 25 January 2005 - The 35th anniversary of UNIT's involvement with "Project Waxwork". A memorial service was held at UNIT HQ, attended by over fifty members accompanied by their family members, and £568 was raised, and was donated to the Veteran Serviceman's Union.
 * 27 February 2005 - Captain Martin Bury takes command of the Geneva B Company, after a successful deployment on the Russian Steppes, and is soon promoted to Major. Lieutenant Rogers takes charge of D company 3rd troop which is currently stationed in Maidstone.
 * 31 April 2005 - All UNIT personnel are welcomed to UNIT's Third Annual Extreme Ordnance Testing Day at the Aldershot Proving Ground to test the new TM 9-2330, as well as to use classic artillery, including the RR-3390 and the RS-8020.

Operations Board
Behind a login page, accessible with the codes "bison", "buffalo", and "badwolf" at varying times, there lies an operations board wherein UNIT personnel discuss the alien threats faced by Earth in the early 21st century.

Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Terms of Use
This page legally absolves UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce as formed by UN Charter in Geneva in 1968, from any injuries one may obtain from using the site. They give a list of possible bodily inflictions that could occur:
 * Injury
 * Death
 * Personal harm
 * Damage
 * Alarm
 * Seizure
 * Catalepsy
 * Cataclysm
 * Armageddon
 * Apocalypse
 * Sepulchasm
 * Maiming
 * Disappearance
 * Reappearance
 * Alteration
 * Reprogramming
 * Vision loss
 * Temporal imparment
 * Glitterclysm

The page also states that if you are injured or otherwise affected in ways not listed, then one can reach a local UNIT office, and one must fill in either a Code Red Form A1010103 or Code Green Form B106798, then a local area officer will provide advice; if one experiences temporal incursion beyond the listed, then one must fill in Special Form Blue Delta-12. It is noted that other forms are available, and that those forms must be counter-signed by two field officers.

It is also stated that if one doesn't complete one of the former two forms fully, changes can be made to an individual's statutory rights, though it does not apply to the third mentioned form if one marks the box entitled "No Complications", as it means the individual marking it accepts Special Powers Act (UNIT) paragraph 3-12 and may be issued a D-Notice.

Finally, it is written that UNIT field stations are staffed 24 hours a day, are qualified in space medicine, and have officers and cars on standby to respond to any call.

Plot



 * The history of UNIT as revealed on the UNIT website.

Since 1968, formed in the wake of a series of incidents in the London Underground that same year, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) has been at the "forefront of intelligence-gathering and special operations outside operational norms". UNIT grew in a "golden period" of time, the sixties and seventies, and according to some, the eighties.

UNIT made a reputable name for themselves as a result of attending peace conferences, nuclear power stations, weapon disarmament programmes, and the UK's space expeditions to Mars. Over this two- or three-decade period, UNIT's knowledge on threats to humanity grew exponentially, although the number of threats did decrease during the late 20th century, barring certain incidents. Due to the lower amount of threats, the governments of the world cut back their armed forces, in particular UNIT, to a "core" of higher ranking personnel and "unconventional" R&D Corps, however their operations began to grew again as the number of threats also began to increase.

UNIT is ready to face any threat that comes their way, with over fifty years of experience. To protect humanity, no matter the cost.

Characters

 * UNIT
 * more to be added

Continuity

 * UNIT was formed in 1968 (PROSE: Downtime, Revolution Man, HOMEVID: Global Conspiracy?) after the London Event. (TV: The Web of Fear, The Invasion)
 * Mention is made of UNIT's operations taking place in the 1970s or the 1980s. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem, The Day of the Doctor, PROSE: Interference, Time Traveller's Diary, et al.)

Plot
In an embargoed press briefing following the London Incident, set to be released at 08:00am on 28 March 2005, UNIT Staff Sergeant. A. Frederick asserts that the danger, whilst undeniably a threat to national security, is not in fact proof of alien life; while Frederick does not say outright what the threat was, refusing to indulge in the allegations that the threat "[were] disguised members of a terrorist coalition, or specially modified robots under remote-control by an unconventional aggressor", he explains that teams across London have confirmed that there was nothing unusual found at the sites of attack, and that the combatants' compositions consisted of entirely normal plastic.

Characters

 * Staff Sergeant. A. Frederick

Continuity

 * The incident apparently involved terrorists. (AUDIO: One Rule)
 * The incident took place in March. (TV: Aliens of London)

Plot
In a press briefing set for immediate release on 10 March 2005, an anonymous member of UNIT warns Internet users of an "alarming" file-sharing virus, dubbed "RUFFCUT", which learns what a given individual is interested in, then disguising itself as something that the given individual would want to download; once downloaded, the virus releases a "catastrophic payload".

The briefing quotes UNIT’s IT/AT Liaison, Lt D Judd, who explains the deadliness of the virus, its fast growth, its then-unknown damage, and impact on the Internet itself, slowing it down to an alraming degree. The virus, tjust the past hour, has already shut down the networks of "a hospital, three government departments across Europe, and brought the traffic systems in Lisbon to a halt." Judd politely asks Internet users not to pirate anything off the Internet to help prevent its spread.

The writer of the briefing then states that any updates will be posted as soon as they are available.

Characters

 * D Judd

Continuity

 * to be added

Plot
In a press briefing embargoed until 08:00am on 31 March 2005, A Frederick writes about the recent role Major A Highway has taken at the New York Liaison Office, to coordinate the "pan-territorial" into a "pivotal site operation". Highway is quoted, stating that he is "thrilled" about the developments, believing it's a "fantastic time for UNIT [...] [and] in the past few years we’ve played a major part in more traditional threats to national security, but there’s been a sudden increase in the interest in our full range of activities, solutions and counter-measures. He believes that his presence in the Ground Assembly is good for briefing personnel and other such matters.

Major Highway reminisces about the previous Major, Major C Jones, saying that the loss of Jones and her colleagues in the Jersey Tollgate Situation was a shock to UNIT, and believes it's impossible to replace her, so Highway is thankful that a new system is being implemented.

Characters

 * Major A Highway
 * Staff Sergeant A Frederick
 * Major C Jones

Continuity

 * By 2009, the New York UNIT base was fully operational, with Martha Jones visiting the site during the 21st century Dalek invasion. (TV: The Stolen Earth)

Plot
In an embargoed press briefing written by Corp M Osborne, he sadly reports that thirteen soldiers of a fifty-strong team have died during operational manoeuvres in the Russian Steppes. Their respective families are to be informed before the release of their names, and Corp Martin Berry is quoted, expressing his sadness over their loss while protecting the local population.

Characters

 * Captain Martin Berry
 * Corp M Osborne

Continuity

 * to be added