The Source (The Doctor's Daughter)


 * S4_06_con_02.jpg The Source used by the Traken Union, see separate article.

The Source was the name given to the Terraforming device used in the colonisation effort of the planet Messaline. Over the time that the Human and Hath colonists fought each other, the Source's true purpose had been forgotten. The Humans, at least, believed that it was the "Breath of Life", breathed by a female Creator at the beginning of time and captured. The two races also believed that it had the power to destroy the race opposing the one who held it, in fact it turned out to be the device their ancestors had brought to the planet to terraform it.

It was located by the Doctor. He broke its casing to activate it, showing the two races the true purpose of the Source and the reason they were actually on the planet. (DW: The Doctor's Daughter)