The
Futurekind
“Huuuumaaaaanns!”
Episode appeared in: Utopia
Doctor appeared with: Tenth
Original Broadcast: 16 June 2007
Species: Human mutants
Danger level: Code RED
Near the very end of the universe
in the year one hundred trillion, where the stars had finally burnt out, there
lived in the ruins of a long dead civilisation, a race of people known as the
Futurekind. They lived near the old Coral City of the Malmooth, the area
of hives and ledges that the Doctor had pointed out to Jack and Martha, as once
being a thriving conglomeration, in Malcassairo. The Futurekind were a
nomadic tribe, moving from one place to the next in search of their next
meal. They were constantly hungry.
Similar in many ways to the
humans the Futurekind had noticeable differences, the pointed teeth which
enabled them to tear through the human flesh that they craved, the markings of
their tribe with their tattoos and piercings, which seemed to grow less and
less depending on their rank. They communicated through a series of hissed
responses and limited vocabulary. They would travel in packs rather like
animals and would flush out the odd human who was yet to reach Silo 16, the
last sanctuary for the human race.
The name Futurekind was given to
this nomadic cannibal race by the humans in Silo 16. So short was the
food supply on Malcassairo that the humans saw this sharp toothed race as being
the final stage of human evolution.
Every human who made it to Silo
16 had to pass a Teeth Inspection. If they had pointed teeth, they were
refused access. However one such Futurekind did manage to sneak into the
Silo. Her mission was to destroy the power supply in order to allow her
fellow Futurekind into the Silo, however her plans were thwarted after
sabotaging a power supply that pumped stet radiation into the chamber below the
rocket thrusters, killing the man inside by vaporising him inside his
protective suit.
When Professor Yana had discovered
his true identity after opening the Galifreyan Fob Watch, the Silo security
gates were opened, and the Futurekind entered, to ransack and search out the
remaining ‘humans’ which in this instance was the Doctor, Martha and Captain
Jack Harkness.
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