Seven Hours to Sunburst was a Stingray short story printed in TV Century 21 in 1966.
It featured the Doctor Who universe character of Nikita Bandranaik prominently, involving the World President in an emergency conference called to prevent Titan's detonation of the titular bomb.
Summary[]
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Characters[]
- Troy Tempest
- Phones Sheridan
- Commander Shore
- Atlanta Shore
- Nikita Bandranaik
- Titan
- Lieutenant
- Captain of the Dominator
- Navigator of the Dominator
- Aquaphibian sentry
Worldbuilding[]
- The Dominator is the largest, newest and most powerful craft in the World Air Alliance's fleet and it carries the most devastating bomb ever devised by mankind, namely enough high-fissile therium 87 to vanish half a continent in the wink of an eye.
- Titanica is the sworn enemy of Marineville.
- Phones lists New York, San Francisco, Marineville, or "any other city or base around the coast" when suggesting potential targets for Titan.
- Atlanta is contacted directly from World Government House and informed the World President and his top-level advisors are on their way for an emergency conference following the issuing of Titan's ultimatum.
- Titan uses plastic seaweed to conceal the entrance to his underwater base but it is discovered when some of the seaweed is found on Stingray's hull.
- Time in Titanica is an hour behind Marineville "in this period of the year", explaining why Troy and Phones were able to escape the explosion of Sunburst unharmed despite overrunning their seven hour time limit.
Story notes[]
- This marked the second and final Stingray short story to crossover with the Doctor Who universe as well as the second and final instalment from the series to feature President Bandranaik.
Continuity[]
- Once again, Titan conspires to capture Troy Tempest and Stingray. (COMIC: The Atlanta Kidnap Affair)
