SS Madame de Pompadour

## *Madame de Pompadour*

The SS *Madame de Pompadour* was a spaceship in the 51st century (5000-5099 CE)

## Appearance

The *Madame de Pompadour* resembles a long central hallway with rotating parts attached to it. It is not known in the show what purpose these rotating parts served. It also had smoking pods for the crew to have cigarettes but it is not clear where these pods are.

## History

The *Madame de Pompadour* was built sometime in the 51st century, at the latest in December of 5062 . It was stocked with 50 human crewmen and approximately 50 repair droids.

Sometime later while entering the Dagmar Cluster it encountered an ion storm that knocked plenty of systems offline and damaging the *Madame de Pompadour*. With the ship sustaining significant damage the repair droids got to work. However it proved to have insufficient parts and the *Madame de Pompadour* was left stranded in space. The repair droids however were designed to repair the ship and did not have proper safety protocols. As a result the repair droids deeming the ship more important, dissected the crew and used their body parts to replace the damaged systems.

Eventually over time the repair droids discovered that even with the use of the crew, they still had insufficient parts, missing an onboard computer. It is unknown how long after this that the *Madame de Pompadour* sat stranded in space. The repair droids then reworked the warp drives to punch holes in time in an effort to find Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson. It is probable that the repair droids believed *the* Madame de Pompadour was supposed to act as the onboard computer. They struggled however, as they needed to find Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson when she was 37 years old. This was due to the ship being 37 years old.

Eventually the droids were successful in finding the 37 year old Madame Poisson and invaded that point in time to secure her. They locked The Doctor and his companions aboard the *Madame de Pompadour* to prevent being stopped. However due to an earlier incident a horse (later named Arthur) was used by The Doctor to destroy the gateway in time and stranding the repair droids 3,300 years in the past. With no known way back, the repair droids shut down for good, saving Madame Poisson's life. One such gateway however was shut off at the time of the incident allowing The Doctor to make his way back to the 51st century.

Sometime after The Doctor left the *Madame de Pompadour* it began to believe it was the real thing. Believing herself to be real she wondered if the scans of her brain could result in the *Madame de Pompadour* believing it was the real thing (and indeed it currently was.) It lamented the fact that The Doctor never returned to see her or that the palace in Versailles had fallen utterly silent before becoming scared, realizing that she cannot see, hear, or breathe.

## Technical Information

### Propulsion System

The *Madame de Pompadour* was powered by dark matter. It is probable that dark matter powered only the warp drive, although this is not a certainty.

### Navigation System

It is unknown what navigation system the *Madame de Pompadour* had

### Communication System

It is unknown what communication system the *Madame de Pompadour* had. However, it is clearly not capable of communicating very far from the Dagmar Cluster, having been too far away to communicate their stranded survival.

## Appearances

* ***Tardisode** -* "Tardisode 4" (Debut)
* ***Doctor Who*** - "The Girl in the Fireplace"
* ***Doctor Who: Lockdown!*** - "Pompadour"

## Trivia

* According to external additions, the *Madame de Pompadour*'s rotating parts were designed to scoop up dark matter, which was used to power the ship.
* The *Madame de Pompadour* was also recovered from the Dagmar Cluster fully powered with no crew or droids onboard. The logs indicated massive droid failure. It is probable that the recovery team learned the fate of the crew but likely not the fate of the droids.