Talk:Vortex manipulator

Doesn't Jack Harkness where this all the time. If so it has appeared in every Torchwood episode.


 * I think this refers to plot-relevant appearances. --Stardizzy2 21:26, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

But he did use it in Exit Wounds and Everything Changes properly from what I can remember. SuperHeroChaos 18:36 30th June 2009

Correction??
"is able to enhance the accuracy of the travel path, as the Doctor is able to use it to guide Jack and Martha from the future back to when they had last left"- It is used to "hook" onto the tardis so this does not mean that it is working accurately but just working as a "lasso" 86.169.203.76 19:43, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've put this page in for a cleanup. Really, what it is in dire need of is separation and simplifying of what is history, and what is an ability. There shouldn't be an abilities section and a functions section as that basically means the same thing. The Thirteenth Doctor 20:27, September 15, 2010 (UTC)

Removal of speculation
When I encountered it article contained these two lines:
 * Jack immediately shooting the Dalek after teleporting suggests that he saw it coming, meaning the manipulator may show you where you teleport before you arrive.


 * Jack's method of reactivating the manipulator suggests that vortex manipulator technology may derive its origins from earlier Earth-based programs such as Project Indigo.

These are both totally speculative and easily countered with other ideas. Just to take the second one, it's possible that Project Indigo turns into vortex manipulators many years hence. It's also possible that Jack, or another Time Agent, had an encounter with Sontarans in which they stole the VM tech and put it into their transport tech. Thus, when UNIT scavenged the tech, they were actually, unknowingly, taking tech from Time Agents, once removed. Plenty of reason to doubt these lines as just one possibility.