Rose Tyler (short story)

Rose Tyler, also called Briefing: Rose Tyler and prefixed as Operations Board: Rose Tyler on the story's page, was the twelfth short story and seventeenth release exclusively published on the U.N.I.T. website on 14 May 2005 by the BBC webteam to coincide with the broadcast of Father's Day. Rose Tyler was the fifth release in the Operations Board series of in-universe chat logs between UNIT personnel.

Plot
Sgt Catherine Petts submits a report on Rose Tyler to an operations board to other UNIT officers. Among the information given, one piece particularily stands out: Mickey Smith — Rose's boyfriend - runs a website, www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, which contains sensitive information about UNIT. Sgt A. Frederick is shocked by this information, and J Frinkstein changes the passwords to the website. Major Jenny Maguire suggests leaving the passwords alone and instead swap in misinformation, however Frederick seemingly denies the suggestion.

Characters

 * Sgt Catherine Petts
 * Sgt A. Frederick
 * Sgt J Frinkstein
 * Major Jenny Maguire

Referenced only

 * Rose Tyler
 * Ninth Doctor
 * Jackie Tyler
 * Peter Tyler
 * Mickey Smith

Worldbuilding

 * Rose was born in 1986, making her nineteen, give or take a year.
 * Rose comes from a council estate in Kennington, South London.
 * Jackie is unemployed, and Peter is deceased.
 * Peter died in 1987 — a Temporal Event — UNIT even had a file, 1987/11-Be3a, on several anomalies on that date. It contained reports of flying beasts and missing people.
 * Frederick doesn't have enough time to create a fake conspiracy theories and "fudged reports" about aliens.

Continuity

 * The events of Father's Day are referenced.
 * Mickey's website would be later seen in the episode The Runaway Bride, having had a make-over since its debut in Rose.