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Life support system

Life support systems, also known as life support, was technology which assisted lifeforms in surviving.

Spacecraft had life support systems which allowed its occupants to survive in space. (TV: The Ambassadors of Death [+]David Whitaker, Doctor Who season 7 (BBC1, 1970)., Colony in Space [+]Malcolm Hulke, Doctor Who season 8 (BBC1|BBC1]], 1971)., Four to Doomsday [+]Terence Dudley, Doctor Who season 19 (BBC1, 1982)., Terror of the Vervoids [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 23 (BBC1, 1986)., The Tsuranga Conundrum [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 11 (BBC One, 2018).) Miniscopes had life support systems, (TV: Carnival of Monsters [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 10 (BBC1, 1973).) as did TARDISes. (PROSE: The Edge of Destruction [+]Nigel Robinson, adapted from The Edge of Destruction (David Whitaker), Target novelisations (Target Books, 1988)., Timewyrm: Genesys [+]John Peel, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991)., TV: Flatline [+]Jamie Mathieson, Doctor Who series 8 (BBC One, 2014).) The life support system was not, however, counted as a system that was essential to the ship's operation. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse [+]Brandon Seifert, Doctor Who (2012) (IDW Publishing, 2012-2013).) When the Boneless drained dimensional energy from the Doctor's TARDIS, the life support began to fail. (TV: Flatline [+]Jamie Mathieson, Doctor Who series 8 (BBC One, 2014).)

Some individuals had life support systems to compensate for what would otherwise be fatal injuries. On Skaro, Davros was given a life support system after being crippled. Later, the Kaleds built a combination life support system and travel machine for the creatures they knew that they would evolve into. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Terry Nation, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).) On Karfel, Renis' wife was on a life support system in a hospital. (TV: Timelash [+]Glen McCoy, Doctor Who season 22 (BBC1, 1985).) On Sto, Max Capricorn's cybernetic body functioned as a life support system. (TV: Voyage of the Damned [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2007 (BBC One, 2007).) Hydroflax's robot body was a life support system. (TV: The Husbands of River Song [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2015 (BBC One, 2015).) Ianto Jones took parts from a cyber-conversion unit and modified them into a life support for Lisa Hallett. (TV: Cyberwoman [+]Chris Chibnall, Torchwood series 1 (BBC Three, 2006).)

Martian cruisers such as the Saavid were equipped with a life-support system. (PROSE: The Jeopardy of Solar Proximity [+]Richard Dinnick, Myths & Legends (BBC Books, 2017).)

According to information relayed from a data-scan by a computer, Australia's life-support systems were in danger of imminent collapse due to pollution, sometime around the late 1970s. (TV: Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful [+]1979.)

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