Cold Fusion

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―Train computer

Cold Fusion
Series:	Doctor Who - Virgin Missing Adventures
Release Number:	29
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor Seventh Doctor
Companions:	Adric Nyssa Tegan Chris Cwej Roz Forrester
Enemy:	the Ferutu
Setting:	Unnamed Earth Colony, c. late 27th century/early 28th century, during the Earth Empire era
Author:	Lance Parkin
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	December, 1996
Format:	Paperback Book, 319 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426204891
Previous Story:	The Plotters
Following Story:	Burning Heart

Contents 1 Publisher's Summary 2 Characters 3 References 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 Timeline 6.1 For the Fifth Doctor 6.2 For the Seventh Doctor 7 External Links

[edit] Publisher's Summary

'The entire universe is at stake and I'm locked in here with another incarnation of myself, and not even one of the good ones!'

More than one TARDIS lands on a barren ice world. The fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan find a once ordered society on the verge of collapse, as rebels wage a dirty war with Scientifica, the ruling elite. All that stands between order and anarchy is the massed presence of an Adjudicator peacekeeping force.

But is peace the only reason for the Adjudicator garrison? What exactly has been discovered deep below the planet's surface? Who are the mysterious Ferutu? And why is telling a ghost story a criminal offence?

The fifth Doctor sides with the cause of justice and fairness as always. But, as a threat to the universe unfolds, he finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future.

[edit] Characters

• Fifth Doctor
  • Is only just getting over his recent regeneration.
• Seventh Doctor
  • His favourite biscuits are Chocolate Hob-Nobs.
  • Has to hide his emotions on seeing Adric again.
• Adric
• Nyssa
• Tegan
• Chris Cwej
  • Uses the alias Bruce Jovanka.
• Roz Forrester
  • Is beginning to feel her age.
• Patience
  • Born in the house of Blyledge on "Glorious Gallifrey".
  • She has/had 13 grandchildren.
  • Her husband was one of the first to explore the vortex.
• Adjudicator Provost-General Tertullian Medford
  • A secret member of Unitatus.

[edit] References

• The TARDIS has a lightspeed overdrive.
• The Machine belongs to Patience.
• Tegan has seen Blake's 7 and can cope with the idea of transmats.
• Unitatus is what UNIT became; they use the old UNIT logo (a grid within a circle) as their herald.
• The colony has a Skybase in orbit.
• The Ferutu are beings from an alternate universe in which Gallifrey was destroyed shortly after Omega's experiments; they have supplanted the role of the Time Lords, and actively engage in protecting and shaping the universe. Their "technology" (if it can be called that) is more akin to magic runes.
  • As the Seventh Doctor is able to keep them at bay with a chalk circle, they may be from the same universe as Morgaine and the others seen in DW: Battlefield.
• The Embodiment of Gris is mentioned by the Fifth Doctor.
• The Fifth Doctor never uses expletives.
• The Doctor disarms several fusion bombs by using his Sonic screwdriver to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, an act he states is beyond the capabilities of the Humanian Era.
• The reasons that the Doctor seems to not remember meeting his past self in other multi-Doctor stories is discussed; in most of the televised adventures, it is credited to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect.

[edit] Notes

• This is the only multi-Doctor story of either the Virgin New Adventures or the Virgin Missing Adventures.

[edit] Continuity

• "Lightspeed overdrive" is first mentioned in DW: Logopolis.
• PDA: The Infinity Doctors reveals who Patience is.
• NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible and Lungbarrow both gave some idea of the time from which Patience is from.
• This story begins a series of story arcs known as the "Psi Powers" arc for the Seventh Doctor continuing in NA: The Death of Art and ending in NA:Sleepy.

[edit] Timeline

[edit] For the Fifth Doctor

• Cold Fusion takes place after: ST: Resonance
• Cold Fusion takes place before: ST: The Immortals

[edit] For the Seventh Doctor

• Cold Fusion takes place after: NA: Return of the Living Dad
• Cold Fusion takes place before: ST: The Nuclear Option

[edit] External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Cold Fusion
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Cold Fusion