Echoes of War (audio story)

Echoes of War
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Bliss
Featuring:	Ollistra
Main enemy:	Daleks
Main setting:	Unnamed planet
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Matt Fitton
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Benji Clifford
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Part of:	The Eighth Doctor: The Time War 1
Release date:	26 October 2017
Format:	1 X 1 hour
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78575-195-0
The Eighth Doctor: The Time War
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Echoes of War was the third story in the audio anthology The Eighth Doctor: The Time War 1, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Rakhee Thakrar as Bliss.

Publisher's summary

Colliding with the full force of the Time War, the Doctor crash-lands on a jungle world with a ragtag band of refugees.

To stay alive, they must cross a landscape where time itself is corrupted. A forest which cycles through growth and decay, where sounds of battle are never far away, and where strange creatures lurk all around.

Luckily, the Doctor has friends: not only plucky scientist Bliss but another, much more unlikely ally. Its name is "Dal"…

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Bliss - Rakhee Thakrar
• Rupa Maguire - Nimmy March
• Quarren Maguire - David Ganly
• Jefferson - Hywel Morgan
• Dal/Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
• Cardinal Ollistra - Jacqueline Pearce
• Captain Tamasan - Karina Fernandez

References

• Time distortion covers the jungle planet, causing the jungle to grow and die and regrow and die again, and echoes of the time war in poisoned time-space. It is a trap Ollistra set for a Dalek fleet.
• There is a safe zone on the world untouched by the war.
• Dal counts time in rels.
• Bliss is an alumna of Luna University.
• Now devourers are time disruptors that release chronon dispersals the Doctor remembers from Jane's Guide to Temporal Weapons. They are nanoscopic weapons that destroy the very concept of linear time.
• Rupa exclaims "what on Ganymede?"
• Bliss reflects that she thought the war was "ancient history," but a time war "doesn't work like that."
• The time war forces the monkey-like natives to evolve back and forth.
• The TARDIS is just a shell because it is defending itself.
• The Twenty-Ninth Fleet and Third Patrex Battalion are Gallifrey regiments.
• Type 120s are new battle TARDISes.
• Ollistra believes "It is through the sum of small victories that wars are won."
• Gallifreyan biology is more resilient to temporal distortion.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• This story follows on directly from the Doctor rescuing the survivors of the Theseus. (AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus)
• The TARDIS will become an empty shell again. (TV: Father's Day)

External links

• Official Echoes of War page at bigfinish.com