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Satellite Five
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 For his first flight in the TARDIS, The Doctor and Rose Tyler take Adam Mitchell 200,000 years into the future to Satellite Five, an orbital broadcasting space station orbiting the Earth so that they can show him the wonders of the planet at the height of the fourth Earth Empire.
Satellite Five is where the news-gatherers are hard at work filtering news from every city, every country and every planet in the Empire. The Doctor though is curious as to why things aren’t quite as he expected – something it seems has halted mankind’s technology progress by about 90 years. Could the answer lie within Floor 500? The very area that the inhabitants of Satellite Five are so anxious to be promoted to but from where no one ever returns? It’s Paradise, they say. The walls are made of gold. Of course, you shouldn’t believe everything you hear on the news…
Suspecting that mankind is being manipulated The Doctor and Rose illicit the help of news-gather Cathica and so gain access to a lift that will take them to Floor 500. What they find at first immediately answers the question as to why the inhabited part of Satellite Five is so warm. For on Floor 500 it is very cold.
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They soon meet The Editor who is curious as to why both The Doctor and Rose are, according to his records, "nobody" as they don't show up on any census reports. Then The Editor becomes aware that The Doctor is a Time Lord and of the function of his TARDIS - all because of Adam.
As well as The Editor The Doctor and Rose get to meet The Editor in Chief who happens to turn out to be the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe, a massive alien creature whose current home is above the Editor's control room. The Doctor and Rose soon learn that this alien creature has been guiding Earth along its predetermined path through the manipulation of broadcast media for the last 90 years.
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Meanwhile Adam discovers the wonders of travelling in the TARDIS. But does he have what it takes to become the Time Lord's companion especially after Rose allows him to use her mobile phone, that The Doctor has adjusted, to phone home?
But why is The Editor working for the Jagrafess? And why are all the news items that are beamed to the Empire being warped? And why is it so dangerous for Adam to take a visit to the medical centre?
On Satellite Five knowledge can be dangerous and for Adam so can greed for that knowledge.
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