Esubeen (planet)

## Esubeen

**Esubeen** was a planet relatively close to St Eden, and home to the namesake Esubeen. Esubeen was located somewhat close to the edge of a major cluster of inhabited planets and asteroids, becoming well known for its flashy and high speed culture.

## Characteristics

Its original surface unknown, Esubeen grew over time to become an ecumenopolis - a massive city encompassing the entire planet, the streets being designed as an urban sprawl. The majority of the architecture consisted of tall and intertwining tower blocks, and them being so high, basic walking travel was more or less impossible and so the population were forced to use floating trains and cars to move across. The heavy use of neon lights meant that the city lights were visible from space. Esubeen produced so much energy that it could be detected as far as away as St Eden; with the eclectic mix of energy types often confusing sensors.

But what heavily defined Esubeen was its size, for such a large city, the actual planet was quite small; adding to the theory that it became the way that it was due to a sudden lack of space for its population. Truthfully, it was difficult to define Esubeen's actual population as people came and went all the time, but estimates consistently ranked close to 50-70 billion. (TV: *Chaos Theory*)

## History

No one really knew what the prehistory of Esubeen truly was, with some speculated that the planet was a human colony and that the inhabitants merely evolved over the years. Others stated that the planet developed its own species via evolution, but this was often disputed due to the fact that drinking water was extraordinarily scarse and thus life on the planet would be impossible.

Whatever the case, Esubeen grew rapidly over the centuries to the megacity that it was by 700,003. It was a day in that year that it all changed - security ships in orbit suddenly detected massive hyperspace readings before they were destroyed by Dalek ships arriving at the planet. The Daleks begun their assault on the planet, in search for "the Object". At the time, the Seventeenth Doctor, Teddy and Amy-Mae were on the planet, having stayed there for a number of weeks following their visit to St Eden.

As they tried to ascertain why the Daleks had attacked, Cyber ships also entered Esubeen's orbit and begun their own assault. Esubeen had become a battleground between the Daleks and Cybermen, both equipped with weaponry that they shouldn't have had, causing insurmountable destruction. The Doctor soon discovered that both species were after a man named Xavier after bumping into him as they both hid then seeing a Cyberman with a hologram of Xavier with the caption: "TARGET."

In reality, both the Daleks and Cybermen had been tricked by the Nikta, who had secretly met with the two - within the shadows as to not reveal their true selves - to provide them with Nikta technology. Both species had deemed a temporary alliance with the Nikta logical - the deal being that they located Xavier for the Nikta in exchange for even more superior technology. Unaware that the Nikta had spoken to the other, the Daleks and Cybermen went to war with each other. (TV: *The Universe That Came Crashing Down*)

However, they were defeated after the Doctor managed to rig a false retreat alarm, causing both sides to flood back to their motherships, who then destroyed each other after the Doctor tricked them both into believing the other side was in possession of Xavier. Esubeen was now safe, but left extremely confused as to what just happened. (TV: *Chaos Theory*)