Mordane

Mordane is the first planet of the Star System Gandii Prime, a small planet (2,678 km diameter) that orbits a class three giant red star and has three major land masses each divided into sectors with each sector assigned to a particular race, species or planet, for the use as a cemetery for their dead. Each sector had a major Necropolis.

A day is only ten hours, with some days of the year having as little as two hour daylight.

Humans from the colony worlds of Folflower, Mayside, Riverville, Wystone and Humberville, had buried their dead in the allocated human continent (Alpha) for over 400 years before the planet was declared a grade two quarantine world and any contact was forbidden under Galactic Union Law.

The Union took the decision to quarantine the planet when the dead started to come alive after dark. There was no official reason given and attempts were made to remove all references to the planet. It is believed that an arrangement with the The Darksmith Collective was responsible for the reanimation of the dead that led to the quarantine being imposed.

The Mordane Incident was a reference to The Darksmith Collective's activities on the planet where Brother Varlos sought to achieve the hardest challenge beset the Collective, that of creating life from dead matter. To this end a machine was constructed and had some, albeit limited degree of success, in that dead cells were reanimated but they did not have the capacity to rejuvenate.
 * The project was brought to a sudden close when the power source (the Eternity Crystal), along with Brother Varlos, 'disappeared'.
 * For the next 80 years the planet was quarantined because the dead were reanimated as a consequence of receiving a signal from the tower. The signal was only being received by the dead cells during the night when the signal was being bounced off of one of the planets orbiting satellite.

Eighty years later following a visit from the Doctor and the crew of the chartered craft 'Elizabeth the Fourth', the planet was deemed safe and the planet returned to its use as a burial place for the dead of many worlds.