Kaviri

**Kaviri** was an uninhabited wasteland of a planet that Malefactor Relocation Vessel A3A2 crash landed into in the 204th century.

## Characteristics

Kaviri was a desolate planet barely within the habitable zone of its solar system. It was relatively small, leading to an abnormally low gravitational pull, allowing for the average human to jump as high as 12 feet if they put their mind to it. The atmosphere was naturally breathable, though thin, and the surface was made from enormous jagged rock formations coated in a thick layer of grey sand. The climate was invariably cold, despite how bright the sun was in the sky. It was just about bearable to stay outside for a few hours, though uncomfortable. (TV: *The Halfmen*)

## History

The planet was scouted early in the 199th century by the people of the planet Ninsun. While they decided it was unsuitable for domestic colonisation, it was put down as a possible candidate for a new location for factories, since pollution was starting to become an issue on their home planet. These plans were never put into action, however, since they became involved in a large scale interplanetary war with the V'Bisi Empire.

The war with the V'Bisi people lasted far longer than anticipated, and was far more deadly. As the conflict rose in intensity, the scientists of Ninsun took part in enormous experiments to produce biological and chemical weapons to end the war as soon as possible. This research produced vast amounts of toxic, radioactive and medical waste, which was sent in enormous batches to be dumped on Kaviri, simply as a quick way to dispose of it.

At the same time, the Ninsun army began to be overwhelmed with prisoners of war. The Ninsun law clearly stated that captured soldiers and civilians were *not* to be executed under any circumstances. However, the escalating conflict led to an overwhelming amount of prisoners, so the new goal was to simply "get them out of the way".

After being passed down from department to department, the final orders were to send the captured V'Bisi directly to the highly polluted Kaviri in "Malefactor Relocation Vessels" and not look back. Thus, over the course of the war, nearly every single captured soldier, officer and civilian was shipped directly to Kaviri with very little food and water. The cheaply built automated ships all crash landed on arrival and barely any of the passengers survived any of the shipments.

This practice continued for a few years after the war ended in Ninsun's favour, with common criminals as the passengers, until it was discovered what was actually happening to them and the process was discreetly halted and brushed under the rug for good.

The survivors of the crashes generally followed a simple behaviour pattern; panic, leave the ship, become intoxicated by the masses of waste and contaminated by the strong radiation, die horribly. As a result, the lucky prisoners generally didn't live much longer than the unlucky ones. Yet sometimes they ended up *really* unlucky and stayed alive during their exploration of the outside world. Those that did mutated beyond recognition becoming anything from living jelly to hostile, crooked nightmare creatures. Those that retained a relatively human form became known to the inhabitants of Vessel A3A2 as Halfmen.

Vessel A3A2 was one of the final ships sent to the planet (crashing in 20,349) and, in part due to luck, was the only ship that's passengers didn't end up as mutations. It was also the ship that the Sixteenth Doctor, Violet Blackwell and Leo Darius-Alesandro visited, several hundred years after its initial crash. (TV: *The Halfmen*)