The Pelage Project ( audio story ) The Pelage Project was the third audio story in Big Finish Productions ' first series of " Counter - Measures " . It featured Hugh Ross ' character Sir Toby outside of his usual habitat of Whitehall and " on location " with the rest of the Intrusion Counter - Measures group . Publisher ' s summary . A case of industrial pollution leads the group to the new industrial town Pelage , and a dangerous meeting with its leader Ken Temple . And deep within the plant it appears that an alien invasion is already underway . . . Plot . While sailing with Julian St Stephen on his father ' s boat the previous weekend , Allison discovered a mutated school of fish off the coast of the new town Pelage , which is not yet featured on the ordinance survey maps . Sir Toby Kinsella claims that the experiments being conducted in the town are " very hush - hush . " Allison had them sent to Cambridge for analysis by the university ' s xenobiologists , who determined that they all died of cancer . The oil effluent from the Temple Plant in Pelage caused them all to suffer incredibly accelerated necrotic metastasis and cellular regrowth . As it has never previously been observed in nature , Allison believes that it may have been caused by an alien chemical weapon . According to Rachel , Ken Temple is a generous donor to the Conservative Party . He was offered the position of Intrusion Countermeasures Group ' s scientific adviser prior to Rachel but refused . Temple ' s entire family were killed in the Blitz during World War II while he was serving in the Royal Navy . Given that he turned up out of the blue with numerous patents in many different fields at the end of the war , Allison half - jokingly suggests that he may be a Nazi spy who has been given a new identity . While in Pelage , Sir Toby poses as a Ministry of Works inspector named Thomas Keir and introduces Rachel as his principal private secretary Miss Johnson , Allison as her assistant Miss Wilton and Gilmore as his driver . He tells Temple that things are in flux in government since Harold Macmillan stepped down as Prime Minister and Sir Alec Douglas - Home , previously Earl Home , replaced him . Temple claims that the PA system creates conformity in his workers in Pelage , though Allison believes that it is worryingly totalitarian in nature . When Temple claims that Pelage has the lowest crime rate in the United Kingdom and the most efficient workforce in Western Europe , Allison asks him how it compares to Eastern Europe . She later tells Gilmore that this " sixth form politicking " was an act to allow her to investigate Temple ' s plant unhindered . Temple realises that Rachel is not a secretary as all of her notes are in long - hand . After Sir Toby refers to her by her first name , Temple realises her identity , given that he witnessed her delivering a paper on quantum cryptography several years earlier . The solvent oil , which is grown in the Morning Star vats , causes accelerated cellular mutation . It has altered Billy McGuinness ' physiognomy so that he can no longer breathe oxygen . As he believes that Earth is no longer sustainable , Temple intends to use the Morning Star Project to terraform the planet so as to alter its atmosphere to match that of Venus . He then plans to evacuate approximately 1 % of the world ' s population , who will serve as the breeding stock to create a new human race , to Venus . Temple believes that this will be achievable by as early as 1984 if all of Earth ' s fossil fuels and natural resources were used to create an interplanetary fleet . Story notes . " to be added "