Swampie Tribes Conflict
The Fourth Doctor, Romana, and allies engage with the Swampie Tribes and their internal power dynamics, involving figures such as Rohm-Dutt, Ranquin, Skart, and Varlik in a societal struggle for control and coexistence.
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Arc Timeline
Season 16
16 eventsThawn returns to the control centre and reports from Delta Magna, where the colonists’ encroachment has inflamed tensions with the native Swampies. Dugeen detects a second vessel following Thawn’s ship, …
Thawn and Fenner pursue Rohm-Dutt into the Delta Magna swamp and locate the Doctor rather than the gunrunner. Fenner immediately opens fire, gravely wounding the Doctor, who survives by falling …
Dugeen's announcement of an impending orbit shot fractures the control chamber's tense interrogation of the Doctor. Thawn seizes the moment to assert authority, dragging the Doctor to the control center …
Skart seizes the moment of covenant signing between Ranquin and Rohm-Dutt to propose a human sacrifice to Kroll before the coming battle. The Swampie leader Ranquin, emboldened by the newly …
The Doctor exploits the crew's preoccupation with the countdown to slip silently past them, abandoning Romana without warning. Thawn and his men remain fixated on the automated launch sequence, blind …
Romana faces her grim fate as the Swampies complete their ritual preparations, with Rohm-Dutt offering casual cruelty rather than aid. His indifference underscores the commercial nature of his arms dealing, …
The Doctor learns the Swampies are preparing a blood sacrifice to their deity Kroll and realizes Romana is the intended victim. Despite Thawn’s threats and urgent plans for a violent …
Romana’s capture and impending sacrifice to the deity Kroll have transformed the Swampies’ gathering into a desperate ritual of unity. What began as a scattered band of weapon-armed natives now …
Ranquin dismisses Rohm-Dutt's warning about the Swampies' unpreparedness for war and orders an ambush against the colonists at dawn. Varlik backs Ranquin's plan, arguing that dryfoot weapons are easy to …
Rohm-Dutt attempts to explain his dealings with the Swampies to Varlik in a desperate bid for understanding, but Varlik accuses him outright of treachery for supplying faulty weapons. The Doctor …
Bound with creepers alongside Romana and Rohm-Dutt in Kroll's temple, the Doctor interrogates his captors with artful distraction as the Swampie priests debate the torment of the seventh ritual. He …
As the forbidden seventh ritual looms over the Doctor and Romana, tied to a pallet in Kroll's Temple, Ranquin channels Kroll's wrath in a vengeful incantation. The Doctor exploits the …
Rohm-Dutt seizes the moment of his ritual execution to expose Director Thawn’s concealed plot. While bound for the Swampies’ slowest death ritual, he shifts from desperate survival to whistleblowing, confessing …
The rapid approach of the mega-storm exposes the settlement's defensive systems as dangerously inadequate for Kroll's true scale. As Dugeen reports the storm's violent formation, the leaders scramble to activate …
The control centre crew races to secure the facility as a once-in-a-lifetime storm bears down on the planetary settlement. Technical reports warn of structural vulnerabilities while tensions rise over the …
The Doctor exploits the storm’s vibrational force to unleash a bloodcurdling scream that shatters the temple’s sealed window. As the glass breaks, he seizes the moment to stretch the ritual …