We Will Destroy Unity City (comic story)

We Will Destroy Unity City was the first Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons comic story ever printed in TV Century 21.
True to its name, the world capital of Unity City, first introduced in The Daleks comic story Duel of the Daleks, was featured heavily due to being the stated target of the Mysterons. As such, this story constituted a crossover with the Doctor Who universe.
== Summary ==
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== Characters ==
* Captain Scarlet
* Captain Black
* Captain Blue
* Colonel White
* Captain Magenta
* Lieutenant Green
* Doctor Fawn
* Destiny Angel
* Rhapsody Angel
* Harmony Angel
* Melody Angel
* Lieutenant Peach
* Lieutenant Purple
* Commander Shore
* Marineville Mysteron agent
* California Mysteron agent
* Captain of Fireball XL2
* Co-pilot of Fireball XL2
* Fijian Chief
* Doctor
* General
* Guard
== Worldbuilding ==
* Captain Scarlet uses Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle 7 in his defence of London, though it is destroyed when the H-Bomb he is carrying explodes.
* Scarlet heads two hundred miles west of Land's End in the SPV, an area which he requests be cleared of shipping.
* According to Scarlet, Unity City is "deserted" and will be until the World Senate reopens on 10 November.
* Captain Blue states that Scarlet has "sweated and swayed" whenever he is near to a Mysteron ever since he was made indestructible.
* Scarlet recovers from a fatal plane crash in just four hours.
* Colonel White orders that Cloudbase be moved to Canberra at full engines so that it cannot be crashed into Unity City to carry out the Mysteron threat, although it never reaches its destination.
* The Fijian natives who find Scarlet's body intially believe his spirit to have passed to the Great One and plan to give him the funeral of a warrior.
* Captain Magenta uses the exclaimation "By the Rock of Cashel!" when he and Blue find the unconscious Angels from a helicopter, believing them to be dead.
* Black orders the Mysteron's Marineville agent to arrange for him and Scarlet to be picked up at his current position beneath the South Pacific Ocean and then on to Cape Kennedy. He does this by stealing Stingray.
* Fireball XL1, Fireball XL2 and Fireball XL3 are the World Space Patrol ships assigned to destroy the Alpha Centauri Space Probe rocket carrying Black and Scarlet to Mars.
== Story notes ==
* As well as a crossover with the Doctor Who universe, this story also crossed over with Fireball XL5 by featuring the World Space Patrol and several XL craft, as well as with Stingray by featuring Commander Shore, Marineville and Stingray itself.
* Although it is Rhapsody Angel who investigates the aircraft piloted by Captain Black at the end of the first part, the start of the second part identifies the Angel subsequently shot down by him as Harmony.
* Captain Blue recalls firing the fatal shot that sent the mysteronised Scarlet plunging eight hundred feet to his death, a recollection which is accompanied by a flashback to the first episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, titled The Mysterons.
* Although Cape Kennedy was named as such at the time of this story's writing and release in 1967, it became Cape Canaveral in 1973, long before the story's futuristic setting of 2067.
== Continuity ==
* The Mysterons made Captain Scarlet indestructible. (PROSE: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, COMIC: Traitor Black Gives In!)
* Captain Black was once a member of Spectrum. Scarlet suggests their scientists might be able to cure him of the Mysteron influence. (PROSE: Capt. Black Mars Expedition Lost!, COMIC: Traitor Black Gives In!)
Category:TV21 comic stories
Category:1967 comic stories
Category:Stories set in 2067
Category:Stories set in Cornwall
Category:Comic stories set on Mars
Category:Stories set in California
Category:Stories that crossover with non-DWU series