The Van Statten Code (game)

The Van Statten Code was a narrative prose puzzle-game in the Doctor Who Annual 2006. It featured an original illustration by Ben Morris while the writing of the Annual's puzzles was collectively attributed to Justin Richards and Gareth Roberts.

Though heavily tying back into the continuity of the series (with Henry van Statten's alien collection colliding with the plot of Aliens of London and the wider lore of UNIT), this game is not considered a valid source on this Wiki, as it essentially casts the reader/player as a staffmember at UNIT, thereby arguably breaking the fourth wall.

Summary
Named for Henry van Statten, the so-called Van Statten Code was broken using the Slitheen Tablet, an artefact from the Slitheen family's attempt to destroy the Earth and commercialise the result as spacecraft fuel. Now, UNIT receives a message in the same code which must be translated using the Tablet. This yields the eerie translation "Beware the Bad Wolf"…

Characters

 * Slitheen family
 * UNIT