Range reveals Frontios’ buried past to the Doctor

Range confesses the colony’s early denial of attack when she recounts Captain Revere’s fatal assumption that the initial explosions were merely enemy preparation rather than the start of a thirty-year campaign. Her admission that Frontios was abandoned and diverted all efforts to mere survival—wasting a decade before attacks resumed—unearths both the colony’s culpable hesitation and the deliberate suppression of warning signs. As the Doctor probes further, the dialogue exposes the painful truth that the Frontios leadership chose short-term safety over acknowledging danger, placing their fragile unity under direct threat and forcing a reckoning neither side can ignore. key_dialogue: [ RANGE: Well, Captain Revere assumed that the barrage was some sort of softening up process. Heralding an invasion, he said. DOCTOR: Hmm, someone else thinks this is their territory. RANGE: Frontios was quite deserted when we arrived. DOCTOR: So you did nothing to provoke an attack. RANGE: The few that survived the crash had no time for anything but bare survival. We worked to raise food. RANGE: Oh, there was no bombardment then. We had ten years of clear skies to stock the wreck of the colony ship with food, and then it began. Yes, the first missile a little over thirty years ago. DOCTOR: Thirty years? Your unknown invaders are certainly taking their time. ]