The Pit (novel)

Publisher's Summary
For two weeks now it has been the same message again and again, and it’s getting stronger; death and destruction, the end of all things, ARMAGEDDON.

In an attempt to lift the Doctor out of his irritable and erratic mood, Bernice suggests he investigates the mystery of the Seven Planets - an entire planetary system that disappeared without trace several decades before Bernice was born.

One of the Seven Planets is a nameless giant, quarantined against all intruders. But when the TARDIS materializes, it becomes clear that the plane has other visitors: a hit-squad of killer androids; a trespassing scientist and his wife; and two shape-changing criminals with their team of slaves.

As riot and anarchy spread on the system’s colonized worlds, the Doctor is flung into another universe while Bernice closes in on the horror that is about to be unleashed - a horror that comes from a terrible secret in the Time Lords’ past.

Characters
The Doctor
 * The Doctor kneels to Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu.

Bernice Summerfield
 * Is now 31 years old.

General Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu
 * Gallifreyan military leader against Yssgaroth.

William Blake
 * Fell through a portal in 1811.

Butler

Swarf

Chopra

The Archon

Spike

Major John Carlson

Bulbir Singh Mann

Academician Brown

Jarak

Ell

Melanie Carlson

The Fellowship

Colonel Philips

Continuity

 * The televised story State of Decay introduced the legend of the Time Lords' war against the Great Vampires. General Kopyion is revealed as Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu, the legendary Time Lord who led the war.


 * Rassilon's experiments and the war with the Vampires are further outlined in Interference.