Lords of the Storm (novel)

Lords of the Storm was the seventeenth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It featured the Fifth Doctor and Vislor Turlough. It was one of two novels published in 1995 that featured the Sontarans; in fact this novel serves as a prequel to NA: Shakedown (the other Sontaran novel published in 1995).

Publisher's summary

 * "They've been fighting this war for longer than man has been walking upright, and they don’t take prisoners."

The war between the Sontarans and the Rutans has been raging for millennia. Billions have died and whole star systems have been obliterated in the conflict. Now, finally, one side may have victory within its grasp.

The human colony world of Raghi is crucial to that victory. When the Fifth Doctor and Turlough arrive there, they find a seemingly stable society ruled by a strict caste system. But all is not as it seems. Members of the lower caste are being struck down by a mysterious illness. People are vanishing in their hundreds. And strange objects have been observed orbiting the sun.

Why is Raghi so important to the feuding alien empires? And how high a price will the galaxy pay if the conflict comes to an end?

Plot
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Characters

 * Fifth Doctor
 * Turlough
 * Nur
 * Jahangir
 * Sharma

Sontarans

 * Fleet Marshal Stentor
 * Major Karn
 * Base leader Rex
 * Commander Loxx

Continuity

 * This serves as a prequel to the events in NA: Shakedown.
 * The Tzun also appear in NA: First Frontier, PDA: Mission: Impractical and PDA: Bullet Time.
 * Turlough previously encountered the Sontarans on Samur. (BFA: Heroes of Sontar)
 * The Sontarans have records of the Doctor from their encounters with him in England in the 13th century (DW: The Time Warrior), Gallifrey (DW: The Invasion of Time), Samur (BFA: Heroes of Sontar) and Spain in 1985 (DW: The Two Doctors).
 * Turlough mentions Kamelion (DW: The King's Demons) and the fact that the Doctor is the Lord President of Gallifrey (DW: The Five Doctors).
 * The Doctor refers to the destruction of the sonic screwdriver by the Terileptil leader in September 1666. (DW: The Visitation)

Timeline

 * Lords of the Storm occurs after DW: Resurrection of the Daleks
 * Lords of the Storm occurs before DWAN: The Volcanis Deal