Alpha Portland Sector

The **Alpha Portland Sector** was the name given to a well-known portion of the Milky Way Galaxy; which was densely populated and became the primary target of the Cybermen during the 40th-41st century Cyber-War.

## History

### Origins

The name Alpha Portland, in reference to where the sector stood in the 41st century, had been known to species within the Milky Way for an unknown number of centuries; so much so that it was classified as "time immemorial", meaning the name was so old, knowledge of its creation and original meaning was lost to history. Whilst, of course, Alpha Portland was not the name given in the original language to name the sector, all translated versions came out as Alpha Portland in English - or at least, the version of English spoken throughout the Milky Way Alliance. (TV: *Feel No Evil*)

During the 1600s and 1700s, the sector was home to a band of creatures which formed an alliance named the Sentinels of Alpha Portland, who took it on themselves to protect Alpha Portland from villains, criminals and wrongdoers - however, they met their end after pursuiting an ancient deity called Derralos to an asteroid which would later become the location of the Klamstaxi Asteroid Market after the Cyber-War, starving to death within the tunnels located underground after following it down below and becoming unable to escape. The Sentinels' demise was seen as a blessing for many residents of Alpha Portland, who typically saw them as a nuisance.

Law and order came in the form of the Milky Way Alliance sometime in the late 2000s - a large group of planets joined together in unity for economic, military and cultural aid existing alongside the Galactic Federation - who struck a deal with the residents and absorbed the sector into the entity. (TV: *Remnants of the Cybermen*)

### The Cyber-War

When the war between the Alliance and Cybermen broke out in 3969, the Alpha Portland Sector fell immediately under attack from the Cybermen, due to it being one of the Alliance's major resource centres. They believed that seizing this sector would win them the war. (TV: *Feel No Evil*) The war had been conducted by the Seventh Meddler, who had secretly provided the Cybermen with the information and resources they needed to attack. (TV: *How to Earn a Degree in Time Meddling*)

Before long, most of the fighting would take place within Alpha Portland, as the Alliance struggled to protect it from the mass onslaught of Cybermen who kept on coming, converting dead Alliance soldiers to aid them in battle. By 4001, the Cybermen seized control of the sector and the Alliance was pushed back to a small collection of dying worlds located within the heart of the sectors.

It was then that the Twenty-First Doctor entered the war, having escaped the Mercury Valley Refuelling Station via a space corridor with new companion Kane Solace, and arrived in the heart of the sector. It was then that she grew very concerned over the existence of the war, as she had no memory of a Cyber-War occurring within the Milky Way at this point of history, indicating the Daleks were more of a threat to the galaxy and the Cybermen should've been believed extinct. The Doctor and Kane crash-landed onto one of the last Alliance worlds still putting up a fight against the Cybermen, where they quickly integrated themselves into the military compound due to Kane's status in the SSS and the Doctor's extensive knowledge of their foes.

Despite Kane leading a taskforce against the Cybermen and the Doctor forced into a general style role, directing soldiers as what to do - the Alliance seemed defeated, which was exacerbated by the arrival of the Cyber-Mothership, ready to claim the sector. But this proved to lead to the Cybermen's downfall, as the mothership's appearance granted the Doctor a chance to win. She recalled Kane's taskforce and led them onboard, pretending to be the leaders of the Alliance surrendering and offering themselves up for conversion. Once inside, the Doctor and co fought their way to the control room, where the Doctor managed to turn off the emotional inhibitors of all Cybermen, sending them all insane before they killed themselves out of fear and pity. The war was won - and the Doctor left, eager to leave the battlefield and explore the universe in her new form, with Kane joining her side.
(TV: *Feel No Evil*)

### Post Cyber-War

By 4054, Alpha Portland was nearly back to normal, as everyone tried to pull everything back together again. Famed expedition leader Zoni Gelub frequented the Klamstaxi Asteroid Market, organising deals between the Malvalosi in exchange for ancient parchments which were said to lead to a far bigger prize once pieced together correctly. With one parchment left, he prematurely set off in order to hunt down his treasure with impatience and excitement brimming in his mind. Since his departure, he had never returned. However, his ship was discovered scorched and wrecked, with the parchment he took recovered.

By the time the Doctor and Kane arrived on the Klamstaxi Asteroid Market, Zoni still remained missing. The Doctor had heard about Zoni following her research into the war, wanting to find out how much history had been changed by the Meddlers - and believed the Malvalosi's parchment was actually a map to a stronghold. The Doctor soon managed to conduct a meeting with the Malvalosi, claiming she knew what had happened to Zoni. Much to their own suspicion, they listened to her story and uncovered the possibility that not every Cyberman had left their sector of space and some still remained.

The time travellers were then granted a ship and the parchment Zoni owned, and set off to the heart of Alpha Portland. Eventually, they followed the map to a moon allegedly containing the stronghold. Kane wondered why the Malvalosi didn't search for the stronghold themselves, but the Doctor believed that they knew the journey would be too dangerous to make - only further confirmed by the destruction of Zoni's ship. It was her belief that the Cybermen had long since taken over the stronghold during the Cyber-War and that they were the ones who attacked Zoni.

Indeed, once they got close to the moon, just beyond where Zoni's ship was found, the ship was fired on and it was only due to the Doctor and Kane's superior co-piloting skills that they managed to land safely. There, they found an elevator built into a cliffside, which entered a control room, with a Cyberman in the control room, manning the defences. After Kane took it out, the Doctor found in the computer databanks that its orders were to wait for orders from Cyber-Command, orders that never came. Furthermore, a giant EMP cannon was being built within the facility, but progress was slow due to a lack of resources. Due to this project's importance, the Cybermen onboard were isolated from the rest of Cyber-Command and thus, the emotional inhibitor shutdown back in 4001 didn't affect them.

Pressing on through the facility, they triggered an alarm which sent out another Cyberman that tried to convert them, but was also taken out. It was there that they found a half-converted Zoni, who explained he wasn't so lucky and was forced into a conversion unit, but escaped halfway and now was stuck on the moon, dying. He had used an escape pod to flee his burning ship, landed on the moon, entered the facility and got past the original guard before triggering the alarm. The Doctor turned off his life support as per his request.

After entering the hanger and seeing the EMP, the Doctor told Kane to go back to the ship and radio ahead as to what they had discovered. Meanwhile, she went ahead, trying to find a way to shut down the operation, but was caught and electrocuted, before being hooked up to the systems, regeneration energy being crudely used to finish off construction. Leaving the Doctor behind to die, the Cybermen flew off inside the EMP - which doubled as a ship - which Kane witnessed and realised something was wrong, rushing back in to save the Doctor and escape the moon, which was now breaking up due to the Cybermen self-destructing it - but not before taking a shutdown code for both the EMP and Cybermen from the databanks.

Racing back to Klamstaxi before the EMP due to a faster ship, the Doctor convinced the Judoon to open fire on the EMP as it charged up - as well anyone else who took Kane's message seriously and prepared for an attack - weakening the shields enough so that she could transmit the shutdown code, just before the EMP could fire and shut down all of Klamstaxi's electronics, which would've left it in the dark and ready for invasion. (TV: *Remnants of the Cybermen*)