The Nimon Invasion
Parasitic Nimons conquer planets by deceiving civilizations into tribute, then harvesting their energy. The Fourth Doctor, Romana, and K9 navigate their empire, rescue captives, and stop the conquest of Skonnos. The conflict reveals the Nimons as a predatory force reducing worlds to ruin, threatening the galaxy.
Arc Timeline
Season 17
7 eventsThe Nimon enforces its demand for Anethan crystals, a tributary act that underscores the alien’s predatory control. Amid the young people’s submission, the tribute flows into the mechanism, causing gauges …
The Doctor deliberately misleads his companions, reversing their hope for escape by steering them further into the Nimon’s lair rather than out. Romana resists the deception outright, while Seth voices …
As Romana assists in decoding the Nimon’s technology, the Doctor pieces together that the energy beam is a direction beam focused on an artificially created black hole gateway. In revealing …
As the Nimon's force grows with fresh arrivals, the Doctor deciphers the fatal flaw in their hyperspace tunnel scheme—two black holes powering a spatial gateway. Romana moves to sabotage the …
The two parasitic Nimons materialize in the transmat chamber of Crinoth, their first words marking the planet as a target with clinical precision. One Nimon remains at the capsule to …
Romana and Sezom discover the Nimons’ final desperate plan to convert Crinoth’s mass into energy via a self-sustaining chain reaction that would destroy the planet and threaten the universe. The …
Soldeed’s collaboration with the Nimons is revealed in its full destructive scale as the Doctor and his companions scramble to reverse the hijacked space-time tunnel. Romana arrives only to be …