After this talk, the Marshal leaves, telling Shapp he has to attend to a matter of state. Marshal keeps touching his neck irritatingly and goes to a long full body mirror to talk to it about Astra and her removal. On Atrios underground as all are, Shapp gets a signal that he declares is Zeos's secret weapon. She also thinks it would be a good idea if the Doctor, whom, of course, makes it like it is his idea, takes the TARDIS in on manual. Romana wonders if this has something to do with the Black Guardian. or something as the Doctor is not sure what it is. Millions of miles away they see a red ball of a planet. a time shift? There is an awful lot of zeroes in one reading. The TARDIS appears in space, in parking orbit over Atrios, confusing Romana and the Doctor as they cannot find Zeos! The Doctor wonders why it is gone or moved. The Marshal talk of counter attack but the fleet is still lost. None of their messages were responded to or the messages never got through to Zeos. ![]() The guard seems to overhear their talk of having sent message to Zeos. Merak pretends to have to check Astra's wrist band, a radiation band which reads different colours if one is on an area of too high radiation. Astra pretends to criticize Merak that people are lying on the floor but in reality wants to meet secretly with him to discuss negotiating peace with Zeos. ![]() Merak awaits the Princess as the Marshal makes a TV speech to encourage the people, many of whom are lying on the floor of the hospital. ![]() The raid is over so the Marshal assigns a guard to take Astra to the hospital. The Marshal tells her it is his duty to bring this war to a successful conclusion and her duty to uphold the people's morale. She concedes that she needs the Marshal's permission to leave after arguing that she wants this futile war to end via peace and negotiation with Zeos. Princess Astra does and wants to go visit the hospital under the pretense of checking on them but really worrying for the young man she loves, Surgeon Merak. The Marshal doesn't seem to care that the hospital wards 7 through 10 are destroyed. The navigation of their fleet is being blocked, the fleet is flying blind in space. The Marshal consults with his second, the more cheerful and heavy set Shapp. A red uniformed, gold braided, white haired cranky Marshal wants to win this war over their enemies - the people of Zeos, which Romana calculates as being the twin planet of Atrios, located on the edge of Helical Galaxy. In contrast to the soap opera on the TV, the real war is horrid, causing rubble to fall in on the hospital levels and destroying among other districts, Area 6 and upper levels, with heavy casualties. In the TARDIS, The Doctor and Romana wonder about Atrios. Reprinted in 19.Ī propaganda soap opera complete with a hero and heroine, the hero going off to war, plays on the TV screens of war beaten Atrios, a planet whose people have been forced to live underground due to heavy bombardment of their surface. Novelised as Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor by Terrance Dicks.
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