Welcome to our new, six-part miniseries - a direct sequel to Season 17!
So, as you might recall, Lady Penelope ended the seventeenth season of her adventures with the cosmic entity known as Abraxas as her, well, ward / protégé / causality child – a new being whom she decided to awaken to the wonders and beauties of human creativity and its achievements (especially in the fine arts), starting with (of course) Italian Renaissance.
But of course, this “grand tour” required a human (or at least human-looking) body for the fledgling entity – a body that was promptly bio-engineered in Lungbarrow by the Doctor himself, who has been experimenting on regenerations and, well, body-making for several seasons now.
Now looking like a male human teenager, Abraxas was ready to travel with Penelope for a series of travels through Earth’s rich history. Before they left Avalon to re-embark on board of the TARDIS, the Time Lady decided to name this human-looking avatar “Harry”, since “Abraxas” might attract undue attention and ring some unwanted bells in some learned circles and has always been a bit of a mouthful anyway…
And now without further ado, the blurbs of the first two episodes…
Part One: The Borgia Divergence
1506.
Eight years after his execution, the despotic monk Savonarola is still ruling
Florence, crushing the city’s spirit under a fanatical theocratic régime. Where
did History go wrong? What unseen cosmic hand is manipulating events in the
shadows of Time – and to what ends?
After a daring escape from the gaols of San Marco abbey, Penelope starts
looking for answers. Her quest soon takes her to 1497 Rome, at the heart of the
Borgia Pope’s palace…
Part Two: The Napoleon Stratagem
Following
her first brush with the mysterious Quantum Archangel, Penelope decides to lure
it into the open so that she can learn more about the elusive entity. To keep
her own time continuum safe from any interferences, she takes her protégé Harry
to an alternate 1840, where Napoleon II and Queen Victoria are about to marry.
Unexpected consequences ensue, in the form of alternate versions of Captain
Harkness, the Doctor and (of course) the Master.
So… what’s next? Well, it all depends on the Time Lady’s next move! Stay tuned!
