Tractor beam

A tractor beam, also known as an anti-gravity beam (PROSE: ) was a beam of energy projected from a vessel or device which could tether and pull another object.
== Gallifreyan technology ==
=== The Doctor's TARDIS ===
The Fourth Doctor used his TARDIS' gravity tractor beam to hold a neutron star still while Erato used his ship to weave a protective shell around it. In the process, the tractor beam burned out, (TV: ) remaining inoperative into at least the Doctor's eighth incarnation. (PROSE: )
It had been repaired by the Doctor's tenth incarnation when he used it to save the Sanctuary Base 6 rocket from a black hole. (TV: )
The Doctor's TARDIS could create a smaller tractor beam with the help of 's laser screwdriver. (GAME: )
The Doctor's TARDIS also had an anti-gravity spiral that had similar properties to a tractor beam. (TV: )
=== Others ===
The Time Lord Azmael intended to employ a tractor beam to move two minor planets in the same orbit of the planet Jaconda, previously under his protection. The Sixth Doctor made him change his mind, by pointing out the consequences. (TV: )
The Doctor was sent a psychic signal by his future self to fly to Lakertya as a means of encountering an unknown source of radiation which would force him to regenerate and remove the influence of the Nathemus in his mind that he was at the time unaware of and prevent a plot set in motion by the Valeyard from succeeding in the long run. His TARDIS was attacked by with focused laser beams, which turned out to be the source of the radiation. She then caught the TARDIS in a tractor beam and made it land on Lakertya. (AUDIO: , TV: )
In another timeline, she attacked the TARDIS during the end of the Doctor's encounter with a pan-dimensional being that had caused him to slowly perish and had not used irradiated lasers. (PROSE: )
== Other occurrences ==
During the Last Great Time War, a Dalek ship caught the mining ship Tempest in a tractor beam. (AUDIO: ) In the final days of the war, the Eternity Circle of the Daleks caught the Doctor's TARDIS in the proximity of the Tantalus Eye with a tractor beam. (PROSE: ) Following the conflict, the Twelfth Doctor crossed paths with a Dalek harvest ship at Gosligi's Branch that used its tractor beam to abduct children. (COMIC: )
Chula warships, such as the one stolen by Jack Harkness, possessed a tractor beam. (TV: /)
A Sontaran ship, captured in an alternative Death Zone on Gallifrey, was provided with a tractor beam. (AUDIO: )
K9 Mark 2 possessed a tractor beam which could pull an object as large as an adolescent humanoid, (TV: ) he could also use it to absorb microscopic objects. (TV: )
Soul Pirates used tractor beams to abduct people, particularly children, to harvest them for parts. (PROSE: )
The Judoon deployed a tractor beam to abduct the Fugitive Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: )
After stumbling onto an multiversal incursion caused by a white hole, the Doctor's TARDIS was caught in between two tractor beams, one fired by alternate reality Quarks and the other by Krotons from yet another universe. (COMIC: )
Category:Transport technology
Category:TARDIS components
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