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900 year diary
salamander
To many people in Earth's future, Salamander was a legend; the man who founded the Sun-Catcher - a device which controlled the weather and enabled the world to stabilise itself economically. In reality, Salamander ruled a small group of people who lived underground, believing Salamander's lies that the surface was a post-apocalyptic wasteland, roamed by unimaginable horrors. Salamander's people were creating apparently natural disasters to destroy vast lands and property. Salamander would then devise ways of saving the people on the surface so they thought him a hero. This actually enabled him to rid himself of political opponents and ultimately take over as world leader. The Doctor bore an uncanny resemblance to Salamander, using this to infiltrate his bases and expose him as a fraud. In turn, Salamander attempted to trick Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield into thinking he was the Doctor thereby making his way aboard the TARDIS. Salamander's unfamiliarity with the ship however caused him to open the doors in flight and he was sucked out into the Space Time Vortex.