Legacy of the Dead

Legacy of the Dead was the fourth serial of season four of Category War. It saw the first appearance of Ank's daughter Ash

## Synopsis

TARRRL: The homeworld of the mysterious Scrollnee, the Resistance finds themselves on this planet.

Also on the planet is a mysterious being, her name is Ash and she is - allegedly - Ank's daughter.

Before long the members of the Resistance find themselves in the middle of a hostile takeover of Tarrrl by the living dead...

## Plot

### Cold Fingers of Death (1)

Ankarstian's TARDIS materialises on a mysterious snowy planet. During this materialization, the lights have been turned off. A mysterious figure steps into the console room after opening the doors, however, before they can make it past the console room the lights are thrown on by Poseidon - revealing the intruder to be an anthropomorphic fennec fox with black hair and wearing a purple jacket and grey long pants. Poseidon questions who the figure is before Ank rushes into the console room and hugs the figure.

The figure turns out to be Ash - Ank's daughter who stayed on the planet - called Tarrrl after Ank left her ex-boyfriend, Finn; Ash reveals that she stayed on the planet due to the war. Ank gladly welcomes Ash into the Resistance, with Poseidon begrudgingly allowing her to tell them about Tarrrl. However, Areex and SANTACLAWS aren't nearly as welcoming of Ash - believing her to be an Alliance agent.

The members of the Resistance leave the TARDIS - with one notable exception, Areex, who has stayed behind to try and interrogate Ash. She eventually finds her with Kieli - who also hasn't left the TARDIS on account of the fact that she thinks the planet is the homeworld of the Magmoth, Molran. She apparently was nearly executed by the Magmoth a few years ago. Areex "interrogates" Ash, however, she proves not to be an Alliance agent

Meanwhile, two residents of Tarrrl discover the TARDIS and recognize it, the residents of the planet are the Scrollnee - who are somewhat neutral in the war, however, they do lean towards the Alliance. Even still they decide to leave the cabinet be for now.

They eventually find themselves in one of the many forests on Tarrrl, where they see what they assume to be a shooting star. This turns out to actually be a meteor - one that is strangely glowing. After finding it the two Scrollnee are attacked by a mysterious figure, which turns to the camera - revealing that half of its face has rotted off

### Night of the Frozen Dead (2)

The two Scrollnee are attacked by the zombie and brutalized. Meanwhile - Ankarstian, Ash, Poseidon, and Areex have left the TARDIS. They find the corpses of the Scrollnee fairly quickly - with Ank mentioning that the bodies appeared to have been eaten and Ash sensing something watching her. Unknowingly to the group, the zombie is watching them in the forest. And it has company.

The group them finds a cluster of holes in the ground - which are very quickly identified as tombstones by Poseidon. Shortly after this, the zombies attack. The Resistance members are able to escape them, however, they can't destroy them. As such, Areex decides to warn the Scrollnee of the threat of the living dead. However, there's just one problem. The Resistance are lost in the forest.

The group decides to walk through the forest - unknowingly being watched by beings who use the zombies as attack drones. Ank finds a hill and climbs it - finding a plume of smoke which she assumes to come from a town. As such, the group decides to walk to it.

Once they reach the plume, however, they find that it isn't from a town but rather from a crashed object that resembles a dark blue orb with flecks of green in it. The object displays a holographic image of a zombie and as such, the Resistance assume that it the cause of the zombies and destroy it. They then decide to head out of the forest. After several seconds of wandering, however, they are attacked by a zombie.

In a building in a nearby city, the beings that have been watching the Resistance inform the zombies to kill the Resistance members.

## Cast

* Poseidon - Chris Barrie
* Ankarstian - Lesley Dunlop
* Areex - John Scott Martin
* Ash - June Page
* SANTACLAWS - Gerald Flood
* Kieli - Susan Engel
* Kaluex - Collette Gleeson
* Hudson - Carl Forgione
* male Scrollnee - Robin Squire
* female Scrollnee - Maureen Morris
* corpse - Steve Ismay

## References

* Tarrrl sits within the Ursa Major sector
* It has many snow-covered forests on it

## Notes

* The Council of the Dead also appear in Snowfall and Attack of the Snowmen; two free-to-download Doctor Who stories.
* Legacy of the Dead wasn't always Ash's introduction story. The canned serial Pyramids would have introduced Ash in its original form

## Continuity

* The Scrollnee previously appeared in *The Final Sanction*. This would be the last of their two appearances in Category War
* Ash would become a semi-recurring character after this
* Kaluex and Hudson previously appeared in *Hunters*
* The events of Doctor Who: *Detour to Diacotha* are mentioned
* The Magmoth are mentioned. They would later appear in *The Curse of Tau Ceti*
* The events of this story are recalled by Ash in *Tempest in a Storm* and are brought up by a mindprobe in *Legacy*