The Kamelion Empire (audio story)

 was the two hundred and forty-ninth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka, Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough and Jon Culshaw as Kamelion.

Publisher's summary
Once upon a time, a people of great artistry and great knowledge ruled the planet Mekalion: the Kamille. For a thousand years, they prospered peacefully.

Then came disaster, when their sun set forever. Facing extinction, the Kamille made the Locus, a device to sustain their minds; and fashioned shape-changing machines, to act out their wishes on the physical plane...

Servants they called the Kamelion.

Part one
Following a recall signal for all of Kamelion's kind, the Doctor pilots the TARDIS to an underground chamber on Mekalion. He and Kamelion are separated from Tegan and Turlough by a collapsing staircase, after which he throws a TARDIS key to them and tells them to wait a few hours in the ship whilst he and Kamelion head to the surface. On the way, Kamelion explains that he was sent to Xeriphas as an ambassador for the Kamille and shut down after he suddenly and inexplicably lost contact with them.

Tegan and Turlough enter the main temple where four dormant robots sit on thrones and Kamelions with missing limbs are strewn across the floor. They hide from the Grogs, but Turlough accidentally triggers an alarm with a tripwire and he and Tegan flee back to the temple.

They find other dormant Kamelions and the Locus, the Kamille's repository of knowledge which Kamelion attempts to reactivate. The Doctor waits outside and is captured and taken away by the gorilla-like Grogs, apparently to be sacrificed. He is soon joined by Tegan and Turlough, who were captured by the Grogs after watching the Kamelions in the temple reawaken. The three of them are saved, however, when Kamelion arrives with an army of his own kind, telling them that the Locus is activated and that his kind now have a guiding hand.

Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast

 * The Doctor / Authority - Peter Davison
 * Tegan Jovanka / Harmony - Janet Fielding
 * Vislor Turlough / Liberty - Mark Strickson
 * Kamelion - Jon Culshaw
 * Alternative Kamelion / Chaos Soldier - Christopher Naylor

Continuity

 * The TARDIS crew were on their way to Turlough's planet when Kamelion joined them. (TV: The King's Demons)
 * According to a previous account, the Kamelions were created by the Gelsandorans (PROSE: The Ultimate Treasure) as weapons of war during their invasion of Xeriphas. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus, TV: The King's Demons)