War of the Words

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The TARDIS materializes in the midst of a huge space battle. The Doctor quickly lands on the nearest planet to find out what all the fighting is about. What he finds is a planet run completely by robots, their only purpose to store all the data in the known universe. The whole planet was essentially a huge library. The robots had no idea why the two alien races were fighting near their planet, the only thing they knew for sure it had been going on for nearly forty-seven years. The fighting would often spill over to their planet and cause damage to their library. The robot's attempts to make peace between the combatants has fallen on deaf ears.

Thanks to ship that has crash landed on the planet, the Doctor learns from it's pilot that the two races are actually fighting over the information in the library. Both races believe they will find valuable information on super-weapons that can be used to defeat their enemies. What they don't know is the library has no such information. The Doctor puts together a communication device to speak with both sides at the same time. He tells their leaders that he has gotten by their blockades himself and conquered the planet. He claims he is keeping the information on weapons in a certain building, but in order to keep the information from falling into the hands of others, he is blowing the building up. With the reason for their war being blown up, both alien races decide to move on to other pursuits. Although he has merely blown up an empty building, the Doctor has saved the rest of the library planet…

Spider-God

STORYLINE

The Terran survey vessel, Excelsior, lands on the last planet on their list. They find the TARDIS and the Doctor already on the surface. The Doctor claims to be heading to a nearby village and the survey crew decide to go along with him. They find a seemingly happy group of natives going about their lives. They do not react at all to the demands made by the survey captain. The whole race is apparently deaf and dumb. The Doctor and the crew continue to observe the villagers and watch as they bring food to an altar. A giant spider appears above the altar and begins spinning a web around some of the villagers. Thinking to save the poor natives, the survey crew opens fire and kills the spider. The natives, however, react by throwing rocks at the intruders.

Not understanding why they received such reaction for saving lives, the surveyors do a little more exploring and find that the spiders are everywhere, and there are also many cocooned villagers. Before the Doctor can stop them, the surveyors open fire on the spiders, killing them all. The Doctor explains to them afterward that they have just destroyed not only the spider, but the other native species. It seems their is a symbiotic relationship between the humanoids and the spiders. The humanoids need to be cocooned in order to emerge as their advanced butterfly like forms. They can do the cocooning themselves so they provide food for the spiders and in exchange the spiders spin them into the web cocoons. Without the spiders, the humanoids will not be able to progress to their final state. The unthinking surveyors have perhaps killed the most beautiful life form in the universe...

Star Tigers Parts 3 - 4

STORYLINE

Part 3: “Let’s Go Meet the Resistance (Please Ignore the Man with the Chainsword)”

Part 3 kicks off with the Star Tigers regrouping after their successful-but-chaotic destruction of the Star Council’s weapons facility. They need allies—preferably allies who aren’t Daak, because one Daak per ship is scientifically proven to be the safe upper limit.

Enter the Planet of the Vegan Resistance—no, not those vegans. These are hardy space freedom fighters, not salad enthusiasts. The Tigers make for the planet to negotiate an alliance. This sort of delicate political work is, of course, why they bring Daak along. (This is like bringing a flamethrower to a knitting circle.)

They land discreetly, only to be attacked immediately by automated defense drones. The Tigers try diplomacy. Daak tries hitting things. In a stunning twist, hitting things works faster.

Once inside the resistance base, they’re greeted by Commander Arkat, who has all the charm of a malfunctioning toaster. He’s suspicious of outsiders, especially ones who arrive with a large, angry man revving a chainsword like it’s a lawnmower of death.

Negotiations begin. There is tension. There is distrust. There is Daak quietly muttering that negotiations would go faster if someone let him “trim” a few Council loyalists.

But diplomacy wins out—mostly because the resistance learns about the Star Council–Dalek alliance and realizes this is not a time for petty squabbles, but for profound, all-consuming terror.

Just as the teams begin coordinating plans, an attack fleet arrives overhead. The Star Council apparently didn’t appreciate losing their weapons plant and have come for a little scorched-earth payback.

Cue evacuation chaos.

The Star Tigers help civilians escape. Taiwo pilots transports. Harma organizes defenses. Prince Salander gives inspiring speeches.

Daak wades into the enemy like a berserker blender that someone forgot to turn off.

The base collapses, resistance fighters fall, and Daak gets his first real glimpse of how deeply the Council–Dalek pact has spread. It’s bad. It’s apocalyptic. It’s Tuesday.

Part 3 ends with the Star Tigers fleeing into orbit, the resistance base reduced to smoking ruins, and Daak vowing—in case anyone forgot—to make the Daleks extinct. Again.

Part 4: “Space Prison Break, Now With Extra Violence”

We open with the Tigers licking their wounds and trying to plan their next move. The Daleks aren’t just allying with the Star Council—they’re advising them, supplying them, and almost certainly writing strongly worded memos about extermination quotas.

Enter: intelligence intercepts revealing that several captured resistance leaders—including some high-value strategists—are being held at a Star Council penal asteroid. Yes, it’s exactly as cheerful as it sounds.

So the Tigers decide on a classic rescue operation. Daak hears “penal asteroid” and starts smiling, which terrifies literally everyone present.

The infiltration plan is elegant, subtle, and relies heavily on stealth.

Daak ignores it completely.

They sneak in through maintenance shafts while Daak storms the front gate like a man auditioning for Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Strangely, this helps: the guards are so distracted by the enormous, screaming man with the whirling death-sword that the Tigers slip in unnoticed.

Inside, they locate the prisoners—many injured, some hopeless, all deeply confused about why their rescue involves so much yelling.

The Star Council guards call for reinforcements. Reinforcements arrive. Reinforcements regret this almost immediately upon meeting Daak.

Meanwhile, Salander and Harma coordinate the evacuation, Taiwo hacks the security systems, and Daak attempts to “negotiate” with a laser cannon by punching it.

The team frees the prisoners, but as they escape, they discover the real horror: Daleks guarding the perimeter of the asteroid. Full, armed Daleks. Several of them. The kind that shout things like “EX-TER-MIN-ATE” and mean it.

Daak’s eyes light up like a child seeing presents under a Christmas tree.

The Tigers? Not so thrilled.

A frantic battle breaks out. Dalek lasers carve through rock. The Tigers fire back. Daak leaps ONTO a Dalek—onto it—and proceeds to chainsword the absolute living daylights out of it. He then uses the smoking remains as cover.

With Taiwo piloting like a maniac, the Tigers escape the asteroid with the freed prisoners… and leave behind a large crater where several Daleks used to be.

Back aboard the ship, the rescued prisoners warn that the Daleks’ role is even bigger than anyone feared. Whatever’s coming next isn’t just a war—it’s the prelude to a full-scale Dalek-assisted galactic takeover.

Daak sharpens his chainsword. The Tigers share a worried look.

And that’s where Parts 3 & 4 leave us: the team battered, determined, and about one Dalek away from a cosmic meltdown.