Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor is a novella written by Terrance Dicks. Released in 1980, it is a novelization of the serial of the same name written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin.
Characters[]
- Fourth Doctor
- Romana I
- The Shadow
- The Black Guardian
- The White Guardian
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Publisher's summary[]
Some time ago, the White Guardian, one of the most powerful beings in the Cosmos, had set the Doctor an urgent task – to find and reassemble the six segments of the Key to Time.
The Doctor and Romana had successfully retrieved five of the segments and now they have reached the planet Atrios in the middle of an atomic war, to search for the last, most vital piece.
Sinister dangers await them in this final stage of their quest...
THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR is a novel in the Key to Time Sequence. Also available THE RIBOS OPERATION, THE STONES OF BLOOD, THE ANDROIDS OF TARA and THE POWER OF KROLL.
Plot[]
Chapter 1: The Vanishing Planet[]
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In-universe continuity[]
- The Black Guardian becomes a recurring foe for the Doctor, starting with Mawdryn Undead.
- The Doctor encounters Princess Astra again in Peter Anghelides' audio drama The Chaos Pool.
- Romana I regenerates into a doppelganger of Princess Astra in Destiny of the Daleks.
- Drax (in various incarnations) becomes a somewhat recurring character.