Peladon and Hepesh contest the Aggedor threat

King Peladon attempts to control the narrative after Chancellor Torbis’s death but finds his authority contested by Hepesh’s defiant invocation of the Aggedor legend. As the Doctor and Jo are paraded before the court, Hepesh’s prophecy of a stranger’s arrival erupts into the present, framing the outsiders as embodied peril. Peladon’s modernizing instincts clash with Hepesh’s traditionalism, exposing fractures in Peladon’s leadership and igniting distrust among the Galactic Federation delegates over how to interpret these ancient curses. key_dialogue: [ HEPESH: It was a supernatural warning. PELADON: Superstition, nothing more. HEPESH: The legend of the curse of Peladon has been handed down through countless centuries. It concerns the royal beast of Peladon, now extinct. It is written, Mighty is Aggedor, fiercest of all the beasts of Peladon. Young men would hunt it to prove their courage. His fur trims our royal garment. His head is our royal emblem. It is also written there will come a day when the spirit of Aggedor will rise again to warn and defend his royal master, King Peladon. For at that day, a stranger will appear in the land, bringing peril to Peladon. And great tribulation to his kingdom. ]