The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)



The Crystal Bucephalus was the fourth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by Craig Hinton. It is the only Missing Adventure novel to feature the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough travelling together. It is one of only three novels that feature that line up. The others are PROSE: Deep Blue and The King of Terror.

Publisher's summary

 * "I'm a Time Lord, not a bank manager. When I invested in this place I had no idea that it would succeed. I mean — a time-travelling restaurant?"

The Crystal Bucephalus: a restaurant patronised by the highest echelons of society in the 10th millennium. The guests are projected back in time to sample the food and drink of a bygone age.

When the galaxy's most notorious crime boss is murdered in the Bucephalus, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are immediately arrested for the killing. To prove their innocence, they must track down the perpetrators of slaughter and sabotage, and uncover a conspiracy which has been 5,000 years in the making.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Tegan Jovanka
 * Vislor Turlough
 * Kamelion
 * Alexhendri Lassiter
 * Maximillian Arrestis
 * Maitre D'
 * Sven Tornqvist
 * Ladygay Matisse
 * Garrett Byson
 * Hellenica Monroe
 * Neil Corridge

The Doctor

 * The Fifth Doctor can "swim" through the Time Vortex.
 * The Doctor again demonstrates his psychic prowess by seizing control of Kamelion from "Lazarus" and speaking through Kamelion's mouth, saying coldly that his people have been around a lot longer than humans.
 * The Doctor spends an extended period trapped on the ice planet Pella Satyrnis and creates the Tempus Fugit while trapped there.

Individuals

 * While stranded in 1980s London, Tegan meets a young waitress in a McDonald's restaurant who is implied to be Ace.

Organisations

 * Cyberlord Hegemony
 * The Elective
 * The Union
 * Wine Lords

Planets

 * New Alexandria
 * Diadem
 * Exo III
 * Eye of Orion
 * Pluvikerr
 * Velopssi

Religion

 * Claatris
 * Lazarus Intent
 * Lizard God

Restaurants

 * Beswicks
 * Cafe de Saint Joseph
 * The Crystal Bucephalus
 * McDonald's
 * Tempus Fugit

Species

 * Alpha Centauran
 * Chelonian
 * Cyberlord
 * Cyberman
 * Draconian
 * Earth Reptile
 * Excalbian
 * Feathered people
 * Gubbage Cone
 * Legion
 * Martian
 * Ogron
 * Ooolatrii
 * Rutan
 * Sontaran
 * Terileptil
 * Thal

Continuity

 * At the climax of this story, the internal dimensions of the TARDIS are so massively damaged (while stopping a vortex rupture) that all that is left is the cloister room and a lot of empty white space. This leads the Doctor to comment it's high time to redesign the console room. This leads directly into TV: The Five Doctors, where he is cleaning the console.
 * The Lazarus Intent is a future iteration of Christianity. "Lazarus" says that he created it to cover his real actions (gun running, smuggling, and general illegal activities) based on ancient scriptures he found one day and his choices of name were either "Jesus Christ" or "Lazarus".
 * Kamelion admits to needing someone to command him. Free will is unsettling for him. The TARDIS also talks to him. This explains his whereabouts between The King's Demons and Planet of Fire.
 * The Doctor claims that he has not smoked tobacco in four incarnations, an apparent reference to the First Doctor's pipe smoking in An Unearthly Child.
 * The Doctor remembers Alexander the Great being "a dreadful bore". Retrospectively, it's easy to think of this as a reference to Farewell, Great Macedon), where the First Doctor meets Alexander the Great. However, the first version of Macedon wasn't made available to the public until 2009, over a decade after Bucephalus was written.
 * Tegan refers to her encounters with the Cybermen (TV: Earthshock), the Terileptils (TV: The Visitation) and the Mara (TV: Kinda, TV: Snakedance, AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake).
 * It is strongly implied that the Crystal Bucephalus was built on the ruins of Gallifrey.