A Worthy Successor (short story)

A Worthy Successor was the fifth story in Cyberon. It was a short story written by James Hornby and James Wylder. Being an explicit crossover with the P.R.O.B.E. series, it was later republished as such in the P.R.O.B.E. anthology True Origins.

The story depicted Giles becoming the leader of P.R.O.B.E., an important development in the chronology of the series, and also acted as a direct sequel to The Last Dose. It story also saw a plethora of licensed concepts cameo in the Vault, which in of itself was licensed from Gary Russell.

Summary
In a small collection of offices in a "swanky government building" in Parliament Square, Giles, a technician, is concentrating on Box, all while the sweltering mid-June heat beamed through the window. Giles can't effectively take apart Box in the heat though, as the perspiration causes him to loose his grip. He gives up, opting to get a small nap instead, but immediately an alarm goes off — causing Giles to fall off his chair — and he remembers that he needs to go the P.R.O.B.E. Archive. And he cannot be late. Going through the building — which was, for once, quiet — towards the lift to the archive. In the archive, Giles

Characters
(In order of appearance)
 * Giles
 * Interviewer


 * Archie MacTavish
 * Donovan
 * Vanessa Hardcastle
 * Hernandez
 * Miles Werbiansky
 * Abigail
 * Kimball

Continuity

 * The P.R.O.B.E. HQ is located in Parliament Square. (WC: When to Die)
 * It has been nearly a month since the Paul Reynish case. (HOMEVID: When to Die)


 * In March 2011, Dr Haggard was unable to aid P.R.O.B.E. in their investigations because her "old friends at Geneva" had stationed her on their Moonbase. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
 * The Defence Secretary is looking to appoint a new P.R.O.B.E. director because the incumbent and her wife are retiring to Spain. (HOMEVID: When to Die)
 * The contents of the Vault were relocated to another facility nearby in the 1990s. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault, The Screaming Skull)
 * Giles mentions that the person who used to run the Vault, Martyn Townsend, attempted to take over the world using a race of super soldiers. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice)
 * Giles is "reliably told" that there had been plans for a moonbase as early as the 1970s. (AUDIO: The Cloisters of Terror)
 * The Vault stores a Hytherian multi-tool. (PROSE: Collective Unconscious)
 * The Vault has a copy of the Christmas Needle Agreement. Giles briefly inspects it and concludes that it is some sort of inter-universal treaty. (PROSE: A Bright White Crack)
 * Miles is working on a device made by the Gendar of Gendar. (PROSE: She Came From Another World!)
 * Archie asks if the London incident involving the Cyberons was anything to do with Canary Wharf before being cut off. (TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)
 * The Vault contains the corpse of a human soldier that has been ravaged by the claws of a Yeti. (TV: The Web of Fear)
 * Haggard refers to "the infamous Dr. Smith". (TV: Spearhead from Space et al.)
 * Giles wonders if he could persuade Sir Andrew Williams to recruit some additional members to the PROBE team. (PROSE: She Came From Another World!)