The Solonian Rebellion
Earth's colonial regime on Solos enforces tyranny that sparks mutant rebellion and open revolution, culminating in institutional collapse and the fight for freedom.
Involved Characters
- The Third Doctor
- Jo Grant
- The Marshal
- Ky Solon
- Carl Jaeger
- Edward Cotton
- Stubbs
- Solonian Enforcement Guard
- Captain Hart
- Varan (Mutant Rebel Leader)
- Blythe
- Solos Investigator (Earth Council Envoy)
- Robbins
- Earth Administrator
- Persecuted Solonian Mutant
- Investigator's Deputies
- Wilson
- Varan Jr (Son of Varan)
Arc Timeline
Season 9
25 eventsCaptain Hart storms into the naval base’s radio room as Bowman records a desperate Mayday call from the SS Pevensey Castle. The crewman’s frantic report of an unexplained attack sharpens …
The Master turns the tables on Colonel Trenchard while feigning deference in his cell, mapping coordinates of recent ship sinkings on an Admiralty chart. What begins as ostensibly small talk …
The Doctor confronts Captain Hart in his office about the mysterious ship sinkings and the abandoned sea fort at the center of the crisis. Hart dismisses the Doctor’s theories and …
Captain Hart delivers a tense briefing to Commander Ridgeway about escalating maritime disappearances in a specific region of the ocean. Hart reveals disturbing reports of sea devils from a captured …
Blythe reports to Hart that UNIT personnel have left the island by taxi rather than using the designated Land Rover, creating immediate suspicion. The missing vehicle and Colonel Trenchard’s compliant …
The Doctor, still bound in the Master’s cell, tests the limits of Drew’s authority by directly interrogating the duration and nature of his confinement. His defiance exposes Drew’s unease and …
The Marshal and his Overlord enforcers hunt down a fleeing mutant through the mist on Solos, their pursuit driven by sport rather than justice. The old mutant collapses near a …
Upon learning of a mutant breach on Skybase, the Marshal orders an immediate purge while berating security. The Administrator arrives to confront him about the security failure and to announce …
The Earth Administrator arrives to finalize independence for Solos, informing Marshal that Earth’s empire has collapsed and withdrawal is imminent. Marshal resists, suggesting genocide to retain control, but Administrator dismisses …
As the Administrator begins the independence conference with cautious optimism Marshal’s oppression festers beneath the surface. Ky seizes the moment to shatter the illusion of compromise hurling accusations of generations …
The Marshal issues a brutal edict in the wake of the Solonian Administrator’s assassination and his subsequent betrayal of Varan, publicly declaring the warrior a mutant outlaw. Using the Skybase’s …
In a quiet corner of Skybase’s surface, Stubbs and the Doctor privately dissect Marshal’s fabrication of the Administrator’s murder and the framing of Solonians. They acknowledge how Marshal’s genocidal expansion …
The Marshal openly brands his own subordinates as failures while revealing their impending doom on Solos. He no longer masks his genocidal intent, declaring the rebels and mutants will all …
The Marshal coldly outlines a systematic genocide in his wood-paneled office, using maps of the mines to justify his plan. He orders Stubbs to deploy experimental gas grenades at all …
The Marshal turns his treachery into lethal machinery as he deploys gas grenades directly into the mine passage where the Doctor, Ky, and Jo are trapped. With ruthless efficiency he …
The Marshal abandons exploration for suppression, abruptly commanding all mine exits sealed and squads deployed to hunt potential survivors below. His order betrays a ruthless prioritization of containment over discovery, …
The Marshal presses Jaeger to launch ionisation rockets despite the scientist’s insistence that the deployment is a measured experiment rather than an act of war. Jaeger frames the bombardment strictly …
The Marshal learns of an unscheduled Hyperion shuttle carrying an Earth Council investigator en route to Solos with arrival in less than nine hours. The news forces him to accelerate …
Jaeger bursts into the Marshal’s office as the Marshal prepares to execute the prisoners as traitors, accusing Ky and the others of undermining his rule. Jaeger interrupts the execution order …
Marshal Jaeger arrives with armed guards and forcibly removes Cotton, Ky, and Jo from the Doctor’s group under threat of violence. He targets Jo Grant specifically, abducting her as leverage …
With the particle reversal device stabilizing Solos’s atmosphere, Marshal Jaeger abruptly pivots from scientific containment to racial purity, ordering the Doctor to recalibrate the machine for human-only breathable air. The …
The Doctor enters the Marshal’s office during a formal hearing about martial law on Solos. As the Investigator presses the Marshal on allegations of genocide against the so-called Mutts—natives undergoing …
The Investigator formally initiates a public reckoning by calling the hearing to order, shifting the Doctor’s private inquiry into an official proceeding. Jaeger exposes the Marshal’s callous exploitation of the …
Jo escapes captivity and bursts into the Marshal’s office, disrupting the hearing just as the Investigator moves to exonerate Jaeger. With Ky and Cotton brought in as witnesses under guard, …
The Doctor intercepts the Marshal’s plan to activate an atmosphere control machine designed to exterminate Solos’ native life forms. Positioning himself between genocide and scientific truth, the Doctor asserts the …