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The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race of humanoids from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and also seen in spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures.
" The Doctor also comments in The Invasion of Time that Sontarans can mass-clone themselves at rates up to a million embryos every four minutes.
The Sontarans make their return in the revived series in the episodes " The Sontaran Strategem " and " The Poison Sky ", with Christopher Ryan playing the Sontaran leader, General Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet and also being the story arc's primary antagonist.
The Sontarans have also appeared as a character in the PC game Destiny of the Doctors released on 5 December 1997, by BBC Multimedia.
The Sontarans also briefly appear in The Eight Doctors, sent to the Eye of Orion by an agent of the Celestial Intervention Agency to kill the Fifth and Eighth Doctors.
The Sontarans have also appeared several times in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, both as adversaries of the Doctor and in strips not involving the Doctor.
The Sontarans also feature in the Kroton solo strip Unnatural Born Killers ( DWM # 277 ) and the Tenth Doctor's comic strip debut The Betrothal of Sontar ( DWM # 365 -# 368 ), by John Tomlinson and Nick Abadzis, where a Sontaran mining rig on the ice planet Serac comes under attack by a mysterious force.
The Rutans have made appearances in the Missing Adventure novel Lords of the Storm by David A. McIntee and in Terrance Dicks's New Adventure novel Shakedown ( based on the spin-off video Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans, also written by Dicks ).
* The Vardans also appeared in the Virgin New Adventures novel No Future by Paul Cornell, in which Bernice Summerfield refers to this story by dismissing them as " the only race in history to be outwitted by the intellectual might of the Sontarans ".
It also marked the debut of the Sontarans.
He theorises that the Sontarans also kidnapped Dastari as he is the only biogeneticist in the galaxy who could isolate the symbiotic nuclei that gives Time Lords the molecular stability to travel through time.
They also intend to eliminate the Sontarans.
She left the series in an emotional farewell scene in 1964 at the conclusion of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, but briefly returned for the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors in 1983 and also appeared in the 30th anniversary charity special Dimensions in Time and ( as a different character ) the independent Doctor Who spin-off film Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans.
He also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans.

Sontarans and appeared
The Rutans only appeared on television in the serial Horror of Fang Rock, in which a single Rutan is encountered, though they are mentioned in some serials featuring Sontarans ( The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Two Doctors, The Poison Sky and The Last Sontaran and Enemy of the Bane episodes of Doctor Who spin off The Sarah Jane Adventures ).
The video Shakedown is the only occasion in which Sontarans and Rutans have appeared together on screen.

Sontarans and for
Ross Jenkins in The Sontaran Stratagem describes a Sontaran as resembling " a talking baked potato " but The Doctor sticks up for the Sontarans by saying that, to them, he looks like a pink weasel.
Aside from a ritualistic chant in " The Sontaran Strategem "/" The Poison Sky ", they are never seen to engage in any activity that would be considered recreation, though a few offhand comments by Commander Skorr in " The Poison Sky " suggest they do consider hunting a sport ( according to their creator Robert Holmes, Sontarans do have a highly developed artistic culture, but have put it on hold for the duration of the war, while the opening chapter of the novelisation of The Time Warrior, based on Holmes ' incomplete draft, refers to Linx listening to the Sontaran anthem while his spaceship is in flight ).
The Sontarans reproduce by means of cloning rather than sexual reproduction, and thus for the most part are extremely similar in appearance.
Though the two species are never seen together, several references are made to the Rutan Host, an equally militaristic race with whom the Sontarans have been at war for more than 50, 000 years (" The Poison Sky ").
The serial Horror of Fang Rock, set during the early 20th century, hinted that the Sontarans had gained the upper hand, but this proved merely a temporary setback for the Rutans ; " The Poison Sky ", set during the early 21st century, hinted that the Rutans were winning at that point.
In the episode, the Sontarans attempt to convert Earth into a breeding world for their clones ; a planet the size of Earth would be able to clone millions at a time.
Big Finish Productions first used the Sontarans for their audio drama Heroes of Sontar-a 2011 Fifth Doctor story.
It is revealed that Jacob is from Sontar, and was responsible for genetically creating the Sontarans as a defense against a Rutan invasion.
In The Infinity Doctors, the Doctor negotiated a peace between the Sontarans and the Rutan Host when two of them were left trapped in a TARDIS for several hours and got to talking due to their inability to kill each other.
In Steven Moffat's short story " What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow " ( the basis for the Tenth Doctor episode " Blink "), the Ninth Doctor has a rooftop sword fight with two Sontarans in 21st century Istanbul, defeating them with the help of spy Sally Sparrow, apparently before the events of " Rose " in his personal timeline.
The Sontaran homeworld was destroyed in the future during the events of the Seventh Doctor strip Pureblood ( DWM # 193-196 ) but the Sontaran race pool survived, allowing for further cloning ; the strip introduced the concept of " pureblood " Sontarans not born of cloning.
It is revealed that the Varden invasion was simply a means to lower the shield in order for the Sontarans to gain control of the Time Lords ' power.
Fielding reprised the role in a 1985 sketch (" A Fix with Sontarans ") for the children's show Jim'll Fix It alongside Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.
However, the Master has placed several of the Doctor's enemies in the TARDIS to make things more difficult for the Graak, such as Daleks, Cybermen, Autons, Ice Warriors, Quarks, Sea Devils, Silurians, Sontarans, Yeti and Zygons.

Sontarans and BBC
The Sontarans feature in Destiny of the Doctors, a Doctor Who video game released by BBC Multimedia.
Further novelisations of Doctor Who-related productions were published by Virgin under the New Adventures and Missing Adventures lines ( including an adaptation of the BBC Radio play The Ghosts of N-Space and the independently-produced spin-offs Downtime and Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans ), while BBC Books would later adapt the 1996 TV-movie, the 2003 webcast, Scream of the Shalka and, in March 2012, the unbroadcast story, Shada.

Sontarans and Jim'll
The Two Doctors introduced a weapon called the Meson Gun ( as named in the Jim'll Fix It Sketch, A Fix with Sontarans ), a large silver rifle with a red fuel tank in the centre which was used by Group Marshal Stike and Varl in the third episode.
She made a guest appearance on Jim'll Fix It in a Doctor Who related sketch alongside Colin Baker's Doctor in 1985 ( A Fix with Sontarans ).

Sontarans and Fix
* As with A Fix with Sontarans, David A. McIntee's Virgin New Adventures novel First Frontier offers the premise that Dimensions in Time was merely a particularly unpleasant nightmare of the Doctor's.
A young Doctor Who fan, Gareth Jenkins, was able to take part in a short adventure titled A Fix with Sontarans with Colin Baker.

Sontarans and with
The Sontarans are a race of humanoids with a stocky build, greenish brown skin, and a distinctive dome-shaped head.
They have been killed by targeting that location with a knife ( The Invasion of Time ), a screwdriver (" Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans "), and an arrow ( The Time Warrior ).
All the Sontarans depicted in the television series have monosyllabic names, many beginning with an initial ' st ' sound ( e. g. Styre ( The Sontaran Experiment ), Stor ( The Invasion of Time ), Stike ( The Two Doctors ), Staal ( The Sontaran Stratagem ), and Strax ( A Good Man Goes To War ); exceptions are Linx ( The Time Warrior ), Varl ( The Two Doctors ) Skorr ( The Sontaran Stratagem ) and Kaagh ( The Sarah Jane Adventures )).
The Autons returned in the 2010 episode, " The Pandorica Opens ", allying with the Atraxi, Blowfish, Chelonians, Daleks, Drahvin, Draconians, Sontarans, Cybermen, Haemogoth, Judoon, Slitheen, Silurians, Sycorax, Terileptils, Hoix, Roboforms, Uvodni, Zygons and Weevils to trap the Eleventh Doctor.
Sontarans led by Field Major Kaarsh arrive in pursuit of the Rutan ship, and the Doctor discovers from Winters that the Rutan ship was on a special mission to wipe out the Sontarans with two ' doomsday weapons ': genetic-targeting weapons which would kill only Sontarans, explaining why the Sontarans are so adamant to track this ship down.
Within the house, Rutans and Sontarans come into conflict with each other, a conflict which is resolved when the Doctor decides to give each of the two doomsday weapons to both sides, revealing that he reprogrammed one of them to target Rutans, and nobody knows whose weapon will target who.
The ship is part of the Rutan battle fleet, engaged in a seemingly interminable war with the Sontarans.
Dastari lures the Sontarans into the cellar, where Chessene attacks them with two canisters of coronic acid.

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