Planet of
origin: Tthe moon of planet Sontar (AKA Sontara), a planet with 5 times Earth's
gravity, in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Several
thousand years ago, at a time when the Kaveetch people, a humanoid species
native to Sontar which had developed an advanced space faring civilisation,
were losing a war against the Rutan Host and coming close to extinction, they established
on the moon of their homeworld an infrastructure allowing them to mass produce
clones genetically engineered to excel in the art of war. The belligerent and
militaristic Sontaran clones managed to fight off the Rutan assaults and got
rid of the remaining Kaveetch they deemed inferior to themselves. The existence
of their creators was eventually erased from their history. Their revised
origin presentedand rewritten as them as a species split into clans, which fought
amongst themselves until the arrival of a common foe, the Rutans, forced them
into unity.
The Sontarans
are grey-brown skinned greenblooded humanoids.
They have have large potato-like neckless heads, three fingered hands and short
stocky bodies. Due to the high gravity of the moon of Sontar where they were
first created, they have great strength and resilience in lower gravity
environments. Although extremely resistant, they are vulnerable to coronic acid. They
absorb energy via the
probic vent on the back of their necks. A sudden blow to the vent would stun them
while the penetration of a sharp object into it will kill them. Tampering with
the energy feed could also lead to a reversal effect that could destroy them from
the inside out.
The
Sontarans are capable of creating around a million clones every four minutes, grown
in vats and were nourished by sezerfine gas, and are therefore able to sustain massive
casualties. They can also heal their
wounds with a stubby tubular device called a tissue rectifier.
The
Sontaran technology has allowed them to miniaturised FTL technology to a point
where small one men craft have interstellar range. Whatever their size, their
starships are usually spherical. They use teleportation technology using
generators situated at area of materialisation and dematerialisation, and limited
time travel technology
which they inherited from the Kaveetch. By the 13th centuray, they used osmic
projection. In the 20th
century, they started making attempts to obtain more effective time travel
Sontarans
also used mind control individuals, either taking over their minds through rheon carbine, a thin,
metallic weapon, which was designed to optimally fit the Sontaran hand, and was
used for energy projection and hyponotism; or controlling them with devices attached to the
neck.
Sontarans
used a Base-6 counting
system.
They are
known to have visited Earth during the ancient Egyptian civilisation, where he
was worshipped as a god
until the humans learned that he planned to destroy Earth, at whihc
point he was buried alive in a pyramid.
In the 13th century, a scout,
landed in England and
claimed it for the Sontaran Empire. He proceeded to make an alliance a local
warlord, and to transport scientists from the late 20th century into the past using
his osmic projection. He would then hypnotise them in order to make them work on his ship.
From that
point on, several sontaran scoutships eithet landed or crashed on Earth, most
of the time with fatal results, like the one that crashed in Tunguska in the 1920ies. But it
is not until 2009 that an all out invasion of the planet was attempted. As the Sontarans
were momentarily losing their eternal war against the Rutans, the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet made plans to convert Earth into a cloning world
but failed, resulting in the destruction of their fleet.
Source:
Doctor Who universe. (TV: The
Two Doctors, TV: The Last Sontaran; The
Time Warrior, The
Sontaran Experiment, The Sontaran Stratagem / The
Poison Sky)
