Lucifer Rising (novel)

Lucifer Rising is the fourteenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It was written by Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane. It was the first full novel to feature the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice back together after Ace's reintroduction in the previous novel.

Publisher's summary
"If I'd wanted to spend the rest of my life hoofing it around grimy spaceships for no good reason I'd have stayed in Spacefleet."

Ace is back. And she is not in a good mood.

Bernice has asked the Doctor to bring the TARDIS to the planet Lucifer, site of a scientific expedition. It's history to her: the exploration of alien artefacts on Lucifer came to an abrupt halt three centuries before she was born, and she's always wondered why.

Uncovering the answer involves the Doctor, Bernice and Ace in sabotage, murder, and the resurrection of eons-old alien powers.

Are there Angels on Lucifer? And what does it all have to do with Ace?

Prologue: Falling from Grace
Paula Engado is falling through the atmosphere of Lucifer in a starsuit, all its systems crashed. The suit fails and she dies thousands of kilometres from the nearest human.

Part one: Astarte

 * The Adjudicator is reviewing security records to investigate Paula’s death.

The crew of Project Eden gather in the refectory to mourn Paula. Piper O’Rourke watches Alex and Christine get into another argument about funding. The three of them head to the conference room to meet Miles. They discuss their little progress on the project so far. After five years of work, there is still much they don’t understand about the Lucifer system and the Angels on the planet below. Miles informs them he is bringing in an adjudicator to investigate Paula’s death. The Doctor interrupts and suggests the possibility that Paula was murdered.


 * The Adjudicator tries to look up a personnel record of the Doctor, but there is none to be found. He instead views the first appearance of the Doctor on Project Eden.

The TARDIS materialises in a corridor lined with machinery and the Doctor exits, followed by Ace and Bernice. They set off down it, briefly stopping to examine an oxygen generator. They come to a door, and Ace kicks it open. When they enter the room on the other side, they notice a drone hovering in the corner. It had been following and recording them. The Doctor pulls a can of blue spray paint from his pocket and...


 * Playback stops because the file is corrupted. The Adjudicator reviews the case. He considers possible motives, and finds he has more questions than answers.

Part two: Belial
to be added

Part three: Moloch
to be added

Part four: Demogorgon
to be added

Part five: Lucifer Rising
to be added

Epilogue: On the Third Day
to be added

Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Ace
 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Adjudicator Bishop
 * Piper O'Rourke
 * Legion

Archaeology

 * Bernice made her reputation excavating Ice Warrior citadels on Mars, which formed part of her first visit back to Earth (after she fled from Spacefleet). During the excavation, she made love to a man named Tim in the egg chamber.

Corporations

 * Piper O'Rourke is a spy for IMC.

Daleks

 * Amongst the types of Dalek Ace fought while in the Spacefleet were Bombardier Daleks.

The Doctor

 * E flat minor is the Doctor's favourite key.
 * The Doctor levitates while meditating in his cell.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor likes Arcturan tea as well as Earl Grey and Lapsang souchong and thinks that tea tastes better out of a Wedgwood pot.
 * Ace finds it hard to sit down to eat a meal with people after her time in the Spacefleet eating ration packs or eating from food machines.
 * Bernice carries a hip flask containing alcohol doped with various smart chemicals.

Individuals

 * Ace dreams of being naked and stabbing someone.
 * This is the first appearance of the "modern" Adjudicators.

Planets

 * Lucifer is a gas giant orbited by the moons Belial, Moloch, Astarte and Demogorgon.
 * There is a sea of zelanite on Lucifer.

Species

 * The Rills have a political system in which the uglier one is, the more power one attains.
 * The inhabitants of Delphon find the surgical removal of limbs to be highly sexually alluring.
 * A Rutan is mentioned in a alternative version of the rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe".

Sectors of space

 * In the Axorc Sector it is considered to be the height of good manners to serve oneself up for dinner on special occasions.

Science

 * Cold fusion generators can be made from Zyton Seven fused with hymetusite using a parranium catalyst.

Continuity

 * Mention is made to the disappearance of the Hydrax ship. (TV: State of Decay)
 * The Doctor says he spent many years looking for the Grand Order of Oberon to give them Orcini's cross, but was unable to find them. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks)