The Great Mercury Plot (short story)

The Great Mercury Plot was the final prose story original to The Dalek Outer Space Book, a Dalek annual of the 1960s.
== Summary ==
Long after a mysterious flash is observed on the surface of Mercury by astronomers, Space H.Q. finally release the true story: that of Commander "Z". A heroic pilot, "Z" flew closer to Mercury than usually advised and discovered a base of Daleks who were assembling a gigantic proton-beam projector capable of wiping out Earth and Venus. In an act of heroic self-sacrifice, "Z" opened all his ship's solar energy ports, which, so close to the sun, overloaded them and caused his ship to explode, also destroying the Daleks' doomsday device.
== Characters ==
* Commander "Z"
* Daleks
== Worldbuilding ==
* Mercury is very close to the sun, making its surface searing hot.
== Notes ==
to be added
== Continuity ==
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Category:Dalek short stories
Category:The Dalek Outer Space Book short stories