Project Valhalla (novel)

Project: Valhalla was a Big Finish Productions novel under the brand New Worlds published in 2005. It focused on the characters of William Abberton, also known as "Nimrod", and Cassandra Schofield, who both first appeared in the Doctor Who audio story Project: Twilight. It also featured Martin Frith and Edith Crumpton from Project: Lazarus and introduced Lysandra Aristedes, who would become a companion of the Seventh Doctor.

Publisher's summary

 * ++Transmission Begins++
 * From: Deputy Director, Forge Alpha Facility
 * F.A.O: Director, Department C4, Whitehall
 * Re: Project: Valhalla
 * Rogue xenotech crash-site located in Lapland.
 * Suspected negative environment effect. Local communications network down. Total satellite whiteout.
 * Senior Field Agent Nimrod dispatched with full extraction team for assessment and harvest. Primary reports indicate total disappearance of local Sámi community. Possible zombie infestation. Crash-site protected by forcefield.
 * No further communication.
 * Current status of extraction team: unknown.
 * Nature of xenotech: unknown.
 * Threat level: unknown.
 * ++Transmission Ends++

Plot
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Main characters

 * William Abberton
 * Lysandra Aristedes
 * Edith Crumpton
 * Cassandra Schofield
 * Sergeant Martin Frith

Other Forge personnel

 * Charles Crichton
 * Private Mark Bradley
 * Ricketts
 * Private Dann
 * Private Tebbutt
 * Private Kirk
 * Private Buchanan
 * Private Longworth
 * Private Curbishley
 * Nestwatcher

Sami

 * Iver Dunfjeld
 * Jukka Somby
 * Otto Somby

Other

 * John
 * Patricia
 * Robert Wilkins

Characters in flashbacks

 * Evelyn Smythe
 * Reggie Mead
 * William Moore

Worldbuilding

 * The Forge started in the 1890s.
 * An unnamed woman is Director of the Forge, back in Whitehall. The Deputy-Director works at the Alpha Facility.
 * When he hears the Forge handle alien tech, Private Mark Bradley asks if it's "like UNIT". (The Forge personnel react with amusement, looking down on UNIT as "more philanthropic")
 * Bradley compares the Forge's technology to Professor X.

Continuity

 * Various flashbacks are shown to AUDIO: Project Twilight, as well as false memories Cassie has of it due to conditioned memories.
 * Charles Crichton from TV: The Five Doctors is Deputy-Director of the Forge. In his early days in the British Army, he was friends with William Dalton and Archie Brimmicombe-Wood.
 * Major Philip Kirby from UNIT audio AUDIO: The Longest Night appears as a Whitehall special envoy, not yet working as the Prime Minister's Press Secretary.
 * ICIS villain Sergeant French (from AUDIO: The Coup) was in the Forge. He's recently been promoted from corporal and transferred to ICIS when the story takes place.