Shapp’s moral and professional crisis as a loyal soldier caught between duty to the Marshal’s command structure and the ethical horror of enabling mass destruction.
Shapp’s moral and professional crisis as a loyal soldier caught between duty to the Marshal’s command structure and the ethical horror of enabling mass destruction.
Events in This Arc
The Doctor and Romana confront Mentalis in the Zeos computer core, uncovering a catastrophic self-destruct protocol triggered by Marshal's attack. The revelation exposes a shared fate for both Atrios and …
The Doctor attempts to disable Mentalis by opening its casing with his sonic screwdriver, only to trigger its primary alert function. The supercomputer immediately prepares its self-destruct sequence, filling the …
The Marshal, blind to warnings and diplomatic consequences, refuses orders and aborts his own abort command. As Shapp’s pleas crackle over the comms the Pilot arms the warheads and the …