Nimrod (Doctor Who)
Nimrod is a male audio book character who features in Doctor Who.
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Biography
William Abberton
On 4 October 1915, Abberton was at the Forge, experimenting on humans with a vampire virus. The vampires overpowered their creator and escaped. Abberton was mortally wounded and took the drastic step of using the Twilight formula to save his life, becoming a vampire. Abberton took the codename Nimrod and, enhanced with cybernetics and specialised weaponry, sought to hunt the vampires down and destroy them. During this time he met the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe, who stopped him from killing the vampire Cassandra Schofield. Between 2002 and 2004, Nimrod headed Project Valhalla, trying to scavenge alien technology from a crashed alien spaceship in Lapland. The mission turned into a disaster and the area had to be sterilised when the ship turned out to be a prison for a world-killing, blood-formed entity known as Nyathoggoth. After Project Vahalla, Nimrod had Crichton, the Deputy Director of the Forge, assassinated so he could take it over.
He then began work on Project: Lazarus, a plan to create clones of the Doctor to discover the secrets of Time Lord regeneration. Once the Doctor had created a cure for the Twilight Virus, he and Evelyn returned to administer it to Cassie a few years later. But Nimrod captured the Doctor, took samples from his body and murdered Cassie before she could be cured. After the Doctor escaped, Nimrod started work on the cloning process, and succeeded in creating multiple identical versions of the Sixth Doctor. He clinically murdered many of them, but they all failed to regenerate. They were each short lived, but he kept them as a sort of pet, one at a time, dressing them like the real Doctor and tricking them into being his Scientific Adviser. After a few years of this, the Seventh Doctor arrived at the Forge and revealed the truth to his clone. Enraged by this, the replica Doctor destroyed the Forge. Nimrod escaped, but he believed it was the real Doctor that obliterated the facility.
Although their building was gone, the Forge continued. They re-branded themselves as the public face of alien encounters. Even Nimrod became a public figure, now calling himself Sir William Abberton. But in 2026 a deadly alien mutagen escaped from the Forge, forcing most of London to be evacuated. The Seventh Doctor arrived in the middle of this emergency, but he was younger than the version that saw the destruction of the Forge two decades previously. With the Doctor were his companions Ace and Hex. Nimrod already knew that Hex was Cassie's son, now a grown man. He played on Hex's doubts and fears and confusion to drive a wedge between him and the Doctor. He even convinced Hex to resurrect the remains of his mother, but she returned as a monstrous zombie. However, her instincts were retained and she quickly turned on Nimrod and killed him. Meanwhile, the Forge was overthrown by his second in command, Captain Aristedes, who implemented Project: Destiny. Nimrod and the Forge were destroyed.
Nimrod encountered the Sixth Doctor again in late 2004, while aggressively acquiring a Huldran spacecraft, he also initiated Project Lazarus: an attempt to replicate his regenerations. Although the Doctor escaped, Nimrod had enough DNA information to create a clone of him; it was unable to regenerate, but had enough of the Doctor's attributes to be hired as a scientific advisor. When the Huldrans began attacking the Forge in retaliation, Nimrod had the clone brainwashed to believe he was the Doctor, had been stranded on Earth, and was assisting them to prevent the Huldrans destroying Earth. By 2007, the constant Huldran attacks and the arrival of the Seventh Doctor caused several key Forge members to realise the truth of the clone's nature. While the Doctor solved the Huldran situation, the clone activated the Forge base's self destruct program.
Overview
Personality and attributes
His pale skin was put down to albinism in the media.
Powers and abilities
To save himself he used the virus himself, becoming a vampire.
Sir Abberton came to be the head of the Forge that was a secret organisation for researching and developing alien technology. Department C4, also known as The Forge, had essentially gone public seemingly as a reaction to the ubiquity of modern social media confounding their traditional skill at keeping secrets.
Notes
- Nimrod was created by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright where he was voiced by Stephen Chance with him featuring in the Doctor Who universe.
Appearances
- Project: Twilight:
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