Neutron Star Threatening Chloris

The celestial monstrosity hurtling toward Chloris manifests as a dense, rapidly approaching sphere of degenerate neutronium—its gravity warping space so severely that light bends around its edges. Though no visible surface features emerge, its tidal forces stretch approaching vessels like taffy, and its neutron-rich composition resists conventional deflection. The Doctor describes attempting to wrap this star in aluminum foil using gravitational tractor beams, demonstrating both the star's overwhelming mass and the audacious futility of resistance before Erato's protective shell temporarily stabilizes it.

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2 moments

S17E12 · The Creature from the Pit Part 4

Doctor blackmails Erato into a dangerous bargain

The neutron star is the central threat, rapidly approaching Chloris with catastrophic gravitational force. The Doctor describes efforts to wrap it in aluminum and slow it using the TARDIS’s gravitational pull, highlighting the star’s overwhelming mass and the audacity of resistance.

Before: Hurtling toward Chloris at high velocity, its gravity warping space and threatening total destruction

After: Stabilized temporarily by the aluminum shell and TARDIS tractor beam, though its ultimate displacement remains uncertain

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S17E12 · The Creature from the Pit Part 4

Doctor and Romana deploy gravity tractor beam

The neutron star launches toward Chloris as a dense, inexorable force whose gravity warps space and threatens to consume everything in its path, its approach directly countered by the Doctor’s improvised activation of the TARDIS gravity tractor beam.

Before: Hurtling rapidly toward Chloris, its trajectory unaltered and threatening to destroy the planet within moments

After: Slowed significantly but still dangerous, with the TARDIS inadvertently pulled toward its devastating pull due to the beam’s overactivation

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