The Diamonds of Sartor (comic story)

Opening narration box
The TARDIS has brought the Doctor to a distant planet …

Summary
As soon as he arrives on the planet Sartor the Doctor gets caught up in a conflict where robot androids are attacking the human colonists. The Doctor takes cover in a nearby shelter where Lieutenant Kamini explains that they are under attack from a Quarsian pirate ship. Their protective forcefield has been attacked and damaged leaving them vulnerable, while the androids steal the planet's diamonds which the colonists mine and use for trade. With Kamini the Doctor races across the desert landscape dodging enemy fire and make their way to the central control tower. Once inside Kamini disappears but scientist Nadia, suspicious that the Doctor is an android saboteur eventually lets the Doctor repair the force field when a further attack sends the computer into an emergency shutdown. While the power lasts the Doctors localised force field (targeting a protective shield where it is most needed) gives the colonists protection. As android stormtroopers rush the base, Kamini reappears in the control room. Recognised as a duplicate android of her dead sister Nadia destroys her with a portable sonic disruptor she had made. Examining one of the diamond crystals the Doctor has a plan and wants to meet the Quarsians just as the stormtroopers break into the control centre with the aim of destroying all the humans…



Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Nadia – Lead scientist of the colonists on the planet of Sartor. Her sister Kamini (a Lieutenant in the army), was killed during the first attack by the Quarsians, then duplicated by their android technology. She later shot the duplicate using a handheld sonic disruptor which she had made.
 * Quarsians – experts at android construction, from crude storm trooper soldiers to facsimile copies of people

Original print details
Installment, publication title with page count and closing caption.
 * 1/3 Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 34 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED...
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWAM: The Great Mordillo
 * This story takes place before DWBIT: Quarsian Mission