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A Slitheen craft was used by the Passameer-Day Slitheen. It had faster-than-light travel capability in the form of a slipstream engine.
History[]
It was the ship that crashed (TV: Aliens of London [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) into Elizabeth Tower (the tower which housed the Big Ben bell) (PROSE: Twenty-First-Century London [+]Steve Cole, Doctor Who Atlas (Puffin Books and BBC Children's Books, 2021). Page 28.) and the River Thames in Central London on 6 March 2006, (TV: Aliens of London [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) the Slitheen using the crash as a diversion for their bigger plans, namely, their attempt to destroy Earth. Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen claimed that it wasn't crashed, but parked "barely two minutes away" from 10 Downing Street for the Slitheen to escape to when World War III started. (TV: World War Three [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) To further the hoax of an alien invasion, the Slitheen genetically modified a pig into a biped and placed it aboard the craft as its "pilot". (TV: Aliens of London [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005)., PROSE: Twenty-First-Century London [+]Steve Cole, Doctor Who Atlas (Puffin Books and BBC Children's Books, 2021). Page 28.)
Photographs of the interior of the craft taken by Corporal J Frinkstein of UNIT. (PROSE: Operation London)
The crash of the craft and its pig slave pilot was discussed in an operations board by various UNIT officers. According to this account, the crash took place on 28 June 2006, and Corporal J Frinkstein and his men investigated the ship, and he took photographs of the interior of the craft and the pig slave. However, both Frinkstein and Lieutenant David Judd agreed there was nothing of use to be understood from the craft. (PROSE: Operation London [+]BBC webteam, U.N.I.T. (BBC, 2005).)
Later that day, after the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler were taken to 10 Downing Street, Mickey Smith (TV: Aliens of London [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) wrote on his website about the crash, ecstatic that it would finally prove his and Clive's suspicions about the Doctor true, and would force the government to respond to the existence of aliens. He was also sent a drawing of the ship by tonka_boy and a picture and a drawing of its pig-like pilot by squidbaby23. (PROSE: Alien landing confirmed [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).)
Behind the scenes[]
- This ship was released in Character Options' Micro Universe range as the "Slitheen Cruiser". The product description makes the "fair assumption" that the Torchwood Institute ultimately took possession of the craft.
