Conflict Among Sevateem Society
Internal struggles within the Sevateem society, including conflicts between factions led by Cordo and Mandrell, power struggles involving Hade, and ideological clashes over leadership and survival. These stories explore the broader tensions within this alien society and their impact on the Doctor and Leela.
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Arc Timeline
Season 15
11 eventsThe Doctor, barely conscious after inhaling PCM gas, is extracted from his cubicle by Mandrell’s forces. As the last traces of sedative vent from the sealed chamber, the rebels’ gamble …
Leela is bound and at Mandrell’s mercy as he toys with her fate, stalling her execution while Veet jests about collecting her skin. The chemical flame creeps toward her, heightening …
Mandrell escalates his aggression against Leela, threatening death to cow the Undercity rebels. Before violence erupts, Cordo arrives with urgent news that the Doctor has been captured at the ConSum …
In the Collector’s austere office, Gatherer Hade maneuvers his fiscally minded superior toward ever greater repression. He frames rebellion not as a political threat but as a threat to productivity, …
Leela’s desperate plea to Mandrell’s band to aid a rescue mission crumbles against their fear of the Correction Centre’s proximity to the Collector’s Palace. As silence and scorn follow her …
The Doctor arrives in the Correction Centre's induction chamber still strapped to his chair as technicians make repairs. Seizing on the delays, he turns aside his captors’ urgency with practiced …
Marn delivers confirmation of the Doctor’s tracker activation as Hade savors his engineered deception. The ritual of hospitality—raspberry leaves, the guise of idle conversation—obscures a deadly gambit. Hade’s calm praise …
Leela’s team breaches the Correction Centre’s induction room with cold precision after validating their entry point. Recognizing the guard’s presence as a direct threat to Bisham’s fragile cooperation, she neutralizes …
Marn reports the Doctor’s movement toward the Undercity rebellion stronghold, where Company tracking fails. Hade responds with cold calculation, revealing Morton’s Fork: dual squads of the Inner Retinue will funnel …
Mandrell and his faction grow suspicious as the Doctor returns to the Undercity with a thousand talmars and a raspberry leaf from Gatherer Hade. When pressed for details about Leela’s …
The cavernous silence outside the Correction Centre registers with visceral urgency as Cordo spots the vanished guard—a fissure in the Company’s iron grip. Leela flashes back to their earlier mercy …