Lucifer Rising ( novel ) Lucifer Rising was the fourteenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series . It was written by Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane . It was the first full novel to feature the Seventh Doctor , Ace and Bernice back together after Ace ' s reintroduction in the previous novel . Publisher ' s summary . " " If I ' d wanted to spend the rest of my life hoofing it around grimy spaceship s for no good reason I ' d have stayed in Spacefleet . " " Ace is back . And she is not in a good mood . Bernice has asked the Doctor to bring the TARDIS to the planet Lucifer , site of a scientific expedition . It ' s history to her : the exploration of alien artefacts on Lucifer came to an abrupt halt three centuries before she was born , and she ' s always wondered why . Uncovering the answer involves the Doctor , Bernice and Ace in sabotage , murder , and the resurrection of eons - old alien powers . Are there Angels on Lucifer ? And what does it all have to do with Ace ? Plot . Prologue : Falling from Grace . Paula Engado is falling through the atmosphere of Lucifer in a starsuit , all its systems crashed . The suit fails and she dies thousands of kilometres from the nearest human . Part one : Astarte . The crew of Project Eden gather in the refectory to mourn Paula . Piper O ' Rourke watches Alex and Christine get into another argument about funding . The three of them head to the conference room to meet Miles . They discuss their little progress on the project so far . After five years of work , there is still much they don ' t understand about the Lucifer system and the Angels on the planet below . Miles informs them he is bringing in an adjudicator to investigate Paula ' s death . The Doctor interrupts and suggests the possibility that Paula was murdered . The TARDIS materialises in a corridor lined with machinery and the Doctor exits , followed by Ace and Bernice . They set off down it , briefly stopping to examine an oxygen generator . They come to a door , and Ace kicks it open . When they enter the room on the other side , they notice a drone hovering in the corner . It had been following and recording them . The Doctor pulls a can of blue spray paint from his pocket and . . . Part two : Belial . Bernice sits in the refectory on Belial Base . She sees Cheryl Russell and her husband Sam walking outside the base in their starsuits . The Adjudicator joins Bernice and introduces himself as Bishop . He wants to know who she is and what she and her friends are doing on the base . The Doctor and Ace enter the refectory as well and Bishop begins questioning the Doctor . He suggests that the Doctor might be responsible for Paula ' s death , but the Doctor argues otherwise . Bishop decides the evidence against the Doctor is inconclusive , and leaves the refectory . Bernice enquires about the future of the Guild of Adjudicators and he tells her , but she isn ' t listening . He observes that she is upset about Paula ' s death . Cheryl and Sam enter through the airlock and take off their starsuits , but Sam ' s initially doesn ' t respond to his command and informs him there has been a change to its programming . Cheryl runs a diagnostic , but it reports there has been no update . They begin to suspect there might be a larger problem in the neural net . Cheryl leaves and Sam tries to remove the malfunctioning starsuit from storage , but the software again doesn ' t respond to his commands . A figure approaches him , and Sam screams , but he is cut short . In the refectory , a news report shows the aftermath of an attack on Sifranos . Piper turns it off and sits down with the Doctor , Ace , and Bernice . She realises they were not originally part of the crew , but quickly forgets again . Ace and Bernice get up and go their separate ways . Piper tells the Doctor about her late husband Ben until Bannen interrupts to tell the Doctor about a control room of sorts that has been found in Belial . They leave to go see it . Ace approaches the Pit that goes straight through the centre of the moon and slides down the walkway circling its interior until she reaches a corridor . She breaks into Paula ' s room , then tries to think of the password for her computer . She tries " CHERYL " and is granted access . She types for some minutes until she is hit in the the head and knocked out . Bernice enters Christine ' s office . Christine has been crying after seeing her mother on the news . She explains how her mother had discouraged her interests as " bad for business " and never let her know her father . The Doctor and Bannen arrive at the new discovery , what Bannen calls the Mushroom Farm . It is an enormous chamber covered on every surface by metal protrusions resembling mushrooms , with the Pit running through its centre . They investigate the workings of the mushrooms . Krau Moshe - Rabaan enters the room to scold Bannen about his energy use and they begin to argue . The Doctor suggests a different method of capturing energy which will increase their power yield tenfold , then leaves . Cheryl tells Piper about the starsuit malfunction . She thinks Sam is working on Moloch . Ace wakes up to find she is bleeding and the Doctor is leaning over her . Miles is thinking about Paula and the Tewa traditions when his interrupted by the Doctor . He tells Miles to break Paula ' s bowl and free her spirit , but she hid it from him after a fight . The Doctor wants to view the security records , but Bishop has control of them . Bishop refuses to give the Doctor access . He is , however , willing to bend the rules in exchange for information . Bernice comes in to Ace ' s room and offers her a drink . They talk about Ace ' s time in Spacefleet . In the Mushroom Farm Alex Bannen takes a file out of a locked drawer in a file cabinet . Ace enters and he slips it under the desk . He tells her to leave , but she refuses and asks about the mushroom farm . He doesn ' t answer and leaves . She follows Bannen to his quarters to make sure he is asleep before heading back , but he leaves his room again shortly after arriving . Cheryl enters her quarters to find Sam absent despite the fact that his shift should have ended hours ago . She tells herself he must be working an extra shift . She starts thinking about Paula and cries . Bernice comes in and tries to comfort her . Cheryl sends her off and wonders how long it will be before she manages to close her eyes without wishing she ' d never wake up again . Piper enters Miles ' s room where he is asleep at his desk . She puts a file on it and he wakes up . She tells him to go to bed and they agree to meet tomorrow . In the corridor , Bernice decides to go back and apologise to Cheryl , but her room is empty . The Doctor is walking down a corridor reviewing events . He was unable to interpret anything from Bishop ' s corrupted files . He hears a sound and rushes into Moshe - Rabaan ' s room . He finds her dead , apparently having slit her wrists . Shmuel Zehavi awakes from his sleepwalk and discovers Moshe - Rabaan ' s body . Ace has followed Bannen back to the Mushroom Farm and hears him talking to someone . People all over Belial are restless : Bernice , Miles , Piper , Julie and Craig , Christine , Bishop , the Doctor , and Zehavi . Christine is taking Ace down the Pit to the Bridge terminal . They step out on the other side of Belial , with Moloch hanging over head connected by the Bridge . Tiw Heimdall approaches them and explains the workings of the Bridge . Bernice and the Doctor are in the refectory for breakfast when the Doctor is summoned to Miles ' s office . They both head there to find Bishop and Miles inside . Miles informs them of Moshe - Rabaan ' s apparent suicide . However , the Doctor says that in Islam , the left hand is seen as unclean , so she would not have ended her life with that hand holding the knife . Bishop concludes he will have to stay on Belial and investigate further . The Doctor is running off down the corridor when Bernice trips him and demands to know what is going on . He tells her Bannen is meddling with the alien machinery and without Moshe - Rabaan to restrain him , he is moving too fast . They head off towards the Mushroom Farm , feeling increasingly strong tremors as they go . When they get there , it is blazing with light and arcs of electricity . Bannen doesn ' t know what to do because someone has stolen his notes . Piper yells that the moons are moving out of alignment and the Bridge is going to snap . Bannen ' s son steps out from behind a mushroom . Part three : Moloch . Ace , Christine , Jesus , Lars , Kosi , and Yukio are in the Lift when it starts spinning . Ace takes charge and hands out emergency spacesuits . Yukio can ' t close his helmet because of his beard . The wall tears open and Yukio dies to the vacuum . Christine trips and her arm is cut clean off by the jagged edge . Jesus is pulled out into space . As he flies back , he can see the Bridge vibrating and tearing in some places . He nearly misses the hole he came through , but he is reeled in with bedsheets . Christine is unconscious and her suit is leaking . Jesus has an idea : go the rest of the way to Moloch inside the Bridge . They force a frayed section apart , clamp it open , and one by one begin their descent . Jesus is last but the Lift collapses , the Bridge walls close in on him , and he is crushed . There is chaos in the Mushroom Farm , but the Doctor explains that the feedback system will kick in and correct what Bannen has done . The tremors stop and the fog in the room clears . Bishop gets a call in his ship from Adjudicator in Extremis Bronwen ap Bryn . Because of the ongoing crisis , she wants him to wrap up the case . Down on Moloch , Kosi takes Ace to the Operations Room where they meet Rachel McBride . She asks about Sam , because he never turned up for his shift . As she leaves to take Ace on a tour , Kosi tells Lars she found Bannen ' s notes in Ace ' s suit . Rachel shows Ace the ship Paula was working on in the AVR Lab for going down to Lucifer . Ace looks at the most recent entry in Paula ' s diary . In the Operations Room , Chas Varley has found an odd reading , but Ace interrupts to contact the Doctor on Belial . Bernice and Cheryl take Alex and his " son " to their room then head to the Operations Room , where Ace is yelling at the Doctor that he lied to her . She is interrupted by a loud noise off - screen . Blood sprays on her face and the transmission is cut off . Bishop calls in . He saw the transmission and is going down in his ship to investigate . The Doctor , Miles , Bernice , and Cheryl join him . They touch down and pass through the airlock and down Moloch ' s Pit into the interior . They split up to search the Base for the personnel . Miles heads up the Pit . The Doctor brings the neural net back online and is reading a file from a simularity crystal when Bishop walks in on him . The Doctor tells him the file is corrupt . Benny is on the interior surface of Moloch searching for Ace and the missing crew . Cheryl enters the medlab to find the Doctor inside . He wants her to tell him about Paula , but she says she isn ' t ready . She leaves and the Doctor follows . At the Bridge terminus , Miles sees that the hole in the Bridge is repairing itself , and a new Lift is forming . He heads to the AVR Lab then gets into the starpod and opens the lab roof . Bishop takes the crystal the Doctor was reading and examines it on his personal reader . It is suppressed evidence that could explain everything . Benny heads into the jungle , where she finds a pile of dead bodies , topped with Ace ' s bloody jacket . Alex enters the Belial Operations Room with his " son " and tells Piper his name is Mark . He is a simularity of his dead son . An alarm goes off on Moloch and the source is the AVR Lab . Bishop and Cheryl run there . Benny reenters the Base and the Doctor takes her to the Operations Room , but the crystal is nowhere to be found . She shows him Ace ' s jacket . Cheryl shuts the dome and the alarm turns off . In the lab , she opens the starpod and Miles ' s body falls out . Bishop finds the systems offline and all records of the last fifteen minutes wiped . They all fly back to Belial to a waiting medical team for Miles . Bishop announces that he has concluded Paula was murdered , and points his gun at the Doctor . Benny visits the Doctor being held prisoner in the Conference Room . She tells him Kosi and Chas are among the dead , but Ace has yet to be found . Piper sees Miles in the refectory , and he has something to show her . Bernice passes them on their way out and sits down with Cheryl . Cheryl was seeing Paula , and Bernice had walked in on them . The only other person Bernice told was the Doctor , but Sam had found out . In Piper ' s office , Miles shows her Paula ' s diary simularity he found . On it , she says she will be going down to Lucifer in a starsuit , and asks Miles not to marry Piper . Piper leaves in anger . While Bishop is gone , Bernice plays the simularity he used as evidence against the Doctor . On it , the Doctor has told Paula that Cheryl loves her , but won ' t leave Sam . She is angry , and says she is going down in the starsuit and might not be coming back . The Doctor nods . Bishop comes in to the office , and Benny has the idea to play it again from a different perspective . This time , the scene shows , with the same words , Paula deciding not to go in the starsuit . Bishop and Bernice are interrupted by the sound of an explosion from the Conference Room . Miles has a dream about hunting a whale . Bernice runs into the Conference Room and Teal insists that the Doctor is dead . Meanwhile , the Doctor makes Bishop tea and as they ' re about to check the security footage for who caused the explosion , the power goes out . They head to the main airlock , where Miles is about to step outside in a starsuit , forcing them to leave before the air leaves the base . In the corridor , they run into Teal and Bernice , who tell them Miles left a suicide note . Bannen joins them and says Piper knocked him out when he tried to reboot the neural net . Krieg , Ardamal , and Dommer are in their room when an alert sounds : Ace is escaping . They race into the hallway then into the zero gravity shaft that connects the floors . Dommer tries to shoot at Ace but his gun explodes . Aradamal fires at her and misses . Miles has been falling towards Lucifer for hours , drifting in and out of consciousness . He is prepared to die when he see ' s Paula ' s face in the clouds . She has joined with an Angel and tells her father to get everyone out of the system . Ace finds herself in an ornate room talking to a multidimensional being . It explains the people that were on Moloch aren ' t dead , just anaesthetised , and identifies itself as Legion . Ace says she ' s been trying to find it . It tells her it is working for IMC , which have come to claim the mining rights of Eden . It takes her to the medlab , where she sees Christine in stasis . An orderly tells Bronwyn ap Bryn that Ace had sent a message to Legion from Belial ' s neural net , but Legion ' s agent had knocked her out and deleted it . Piper is heading towards the airlock when she hears the Doctor , Benny , Teal , and Bishop . She is overcome by a strange sensation and runs off down the corridor . The Doctor tells the others to gather everyone in the Operations Room , and confronts Piper in the airlock . Piper explains that she had infected the starsuits with a virus to transmit information to IMC , but it caused malfunctions , like the one that killed Paula . Cheryl comes around the corner and punches Piper in the face . One of the spacesuit lockers opens and Sam ' s body falls out . Miles materialises in the Operations Room . Ace leads IMC troopers in through the airlock . Christine comes too in the medlab and realises she has an artificial left arm . Legion appears before her and tells her she will be seeing her mother . In the executive transporter bay , she throws coffee into the face of her guard Atrimonides and runs away . They both fall off the observation deck . The artificial gravity fails , fire fighting systems fill the room with foam and Christine finds herself between one of the ships and the wall as the ship begins to move . It is too big for her to get out of the way before it crushes her . She enters the ship through an access hatch , but Atrimonides is not so lucky . Part four : Demogorgon . Bernice enters the refectory to see it full of IMC troopers . She asks the Doctor to make a distraction . He walks to the centre of the room and begins juggling , while she climbs inside a food dispenser . Legion appears behind the Doctor and stops his act . It tells the crew members that IMC now owns this colony , and they will have to pay to get back to Earth . Bishop tries to take control of the situation , but he is interrupted by Bronwen ap Bryn , who tells him the Guild is no more . Legion orders Ace to shoot Piper . Legion puts Bannen to the task of making plans for a new starpod , and brings his simularity son back online . It then tells Ace that it just need Bannen to think he is helping so he ' ll stay out of the way . Bernice gets out of the food dispenser and tries to talk to Ace , but she just points a gun at her . Ace leads Benny out through the airlock onto an executive transporter to take her to the " Insider Trading " . In Miles ' office , the Doctor tells Julie and Teal that Miles ' s Tewa medicine wheel is the key to the situation . Cheryl arrives and tells Julie she ' s needed . Miles tells them the Tewa origin story . Bishop knocks out the guards and helps them all to escape . Christine gets in a starsuit on the executive transporter and looks for files concerning Project Eden . She finds a video of her mother telling Legion her plans to shut down the project and leave all the crew except Christine for dead . As they rush down the corridor , Bishop asks the Doctor about Moshe - Rabaan ' s body . The Doctor explains that he wanted to draw suspicion to himself so the real killer would come out into the open . They run right into Krieg and Ardamal , who are about to shoot them when Bronwen ap Bryn stops them . In the " methodology " section of the file , Christine finds out that IMC ' s plan is to use eight controlled black holes to strip away Lucifer ' s atmosphere with no regard for the Angels . In her stolen spacesuit , she tries to leave the executive transporter bay but Ace spots her . She takes Christine and Bernice to a room and locks the door as she leaves . She investigates the medlab , and finds no trace of the crew from Moloch . Meanwhile , Bernice and Christine use the antigravity units holding the chandeliers up to ram the table into the door . On the Lift , Miles Engado holds the medicine wheel . Piper joins him and explains how she betrayed the Project and worked as a spy for IMC . Ace had deliberately not killed her . Miles says he needs her to debug the starpod software because the virus is still in it . Alex Bannen is dropped off on Moloch by Ace . He descends the Pit and finds IMC troopers lighting Moloch ' s vegetation on fire . Legion doesn ' t listen to his requests for materials . The Doctor and Bishop investigate the Mushroom Farm . Ace comes in and hands over Bannen ' s files to the Doctor . Elsewhere , Cheryl and Teal are ducking through corridors , evading IMC troopers , when they are spotted by Ardamal . Teal knocks him in the side of the head with a piece of plastic . They run into the Mushroom Farm and shut the doors behind them , but a pulse from Ardamal ' s gun makes it through and kills Teal . He comes in and threatens to shoot Cheryl , too , but Ace stops him . Bronwen ap Bryn leads them out . Piper and Miles sit in the starpod , falling through Lucifer ' s atmosphere . Piper is overwhelmed by regret , and they cry in each other ' s arms . Further down , seas of zelanite meet islands of cloud . Piper sees Paula , now an Angel , who tells them this is her funeral . Miles tries to tell her something , but she says there is no time . The Angels gather around her and she begins falling . Miles flies the pod after her . Christine and Bernice have changed into IMC uniforms . They enter one of the transporters , knock out the pilot , and take off . Legion ignores them and orders the black holes to be released . Part five : Lucifer Rising . Bernice and Christine are watching the atmosphere of Lucifer be ripped away into the black holes , when they realise they are heading towards one . The fuel quickly runs out trying to evade it and they are being crushed . All of a sudden , they stop . The starpod chases after Paula , undergoing extreme atmospheric pressure . The medicine wheel begins to glow . Without explanation , the pod slows , and in its external arms is the body of Paula . Miles releases her , and the wheel fades . The pod begins shuddering again as the black holes eat the atmosphere . Then , they stop as the Angels dance around them . In the Operations Room , Cheryl , the Doctor , Ace , Bishop , Bronwen ap Bryn , Krieg , and Ardamal are all watching Lucifer on a simularity . Legion appears and tries to justify his actions . Bannen ' s son enters and tells the Doctor his dad has locked himself in the Mushroom Farm . Ace , Krieg , and Ardamal go to investigate . Ace returns , saying they couldn ' t get in . Legion orders Bryn to take everyone out of the base . Bishop takes her gun , but she pulls out another and points it at him . Ace shoots first , killing Bryn . She explains that in the twenty - sixth century , the Lucifer system is at a strategic point , but there is an exclusion zone around it . IMC sent her to figure out a way around it . Suddenly , Legion bursts through Bishop ' s chest , killing him . The Doctor decides he has manipulated others into acting too often in the past , and shoots Legion . Out of thin air , four people and an Angel materialise in the room , and the Angel quickly vanishes . Miles , Piper , Bernice , and Christine are now in the Operations Room . They give a quick recap of what has happened to them . Piper says Paula has changed the medicine wheel to be mad of the high - mass elements the Project has been searching for . The Doctor tells everyone to leave in Bishop ' s shuttle while they still have the chance . Krieg and Ardamal finally break into the Mushroom Farm . Energy arcs between the mushroom . Krieg begins to say something , but her voice literally becomes liquid . As they run out the door , Krieg ' s skin becomes purple and spiny , Ardamal ' s legs are jointed differently , and their bodies fuse . Reality - altering energy is emanating form the Mushroom Farm , and all across the base , people ' s biology fundamentally alter and they die horrible deaths . The Doctor , Ace , and Bernice arrive in the Farm and confront Bannen , who has become handsome . The Doctor explains that the Mushroom Farm controls morphic field s , a force that shapes the biology of all organisms . Bannen wants to improve humanity , but he needs the Doctors help because he isn ' t emotionally stable enough to completely control it . The Doctor tells him it ' s impossible now that the interior of Moloch has been burned . Piper , Miles , Cheryl , and the surviving crew are trying to outrun the wave of energy to get to Bishop ' s ship . They get to the airlock , but the energy begins to seep through the doors . In the end , only nine people make it into the shuttle . As they leave the system , it vanishes completely . The Doctor explains that although the feedback mechanism is destroyed , that the four of them together can stop this . The Doctor and his companions join hands and begin to fuse , up to the wrists at first and then completely . Ace has a dream of her dying father and Jan . The Doctor dreams of the Hermit on Mount Cadon . Bernice dreams of visiting the Vartaq Veil Dyson sphere and searching for her father . The three of them awake to find everything back to normal . The Doctor explains that the strength of the emotion in their memories put the machinery to rights . Bannen became the feedback mechanism in Moloch . The three time travellers depart , still carrying traces of each other . Epilogue : On the Third Day . Miles and Piper stand on a beach back on Earth . She hands him Paula ' s bowl , and he throws it into the sea , freeing her spirit . Piper releases the powder given to her by the Doctor , calling it " hope " . " The original plot for " Lucifer Rising " had the Cybermen as the primary villains . A group of them had found religion and were travelling the universe in a space - going cathedral . Until a fairly late stage ( in fact , after contracts had been signed ) Legion in was , in fact an Alpha Centauran . "