The Sontarans

Home Planet: Sontar
Life Form: Humanoid
Episodes: The Sontaran Stratagem

The Sontarans are potato headed, short aliens from the planet Sontar, who are all clones, and are at eternal war with they’re worst enemy, the Rutans. Naturally, as clones, all Sontarans look the same. They have a grey/brown skin, and wear tough armour. They normally have two fingers and on thumb on their hands, and their species only consisted of males. They were short, due to the large amount of gravity on they’re home planet, Sontar. They were able to produce one million clones every four minutes. They do not fear death, but are a war-obsessed race. They find it honourable to go into war without a helmet. Sontarans’ only weak spot is their probic vent, at the back of their neck. One blow to the back of the neck knocks them unconscious. This is why they must always face their enemies in battle. Sontarans have massive motherships, that have 4 claw like appendages coming out of the top and 4 from the bottom the centre is a giant circle covered in smaller spheres that are Sontaran scout ships. Scout ships are silver and have a square glass like pane to see from. Each scout ship can hold a single Sontaran. In this story, they used rifle laser weapons during the assault which fired bright beams of red light that could kill a human without any exterior damage. In 2009, the Sontarans were losing the war against the Rutans. To counter this, the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet (led by General Staal) made plans for invasion of Earth, and carried them out with the help of Luke Rattigan. The Sontarans used a form of hypnosis on the workers of the ATMOS factory, forcing them to start shipping out devices that contained gases poisonous to humans, contained inside plates attached to the Sat-navs they sold. When the Doctor interfered with their plans, they attempted to kill him by using the plate on a UNIT car to drive it into a river. It failed, but this was unknown to them until the Doctor began fiddling with a plate, causing it to become active. The Sontarans activated all the plates in every car containing one. The gas was released into the air, choking people around it. It also deadlocked the car preventing escape from inside. They cloned Martha, and used her and her security pass to help. The Sontarans plans were revealed: they actually wanted to change the Earth into a cloning planet to make a billion more Sontarans. The clone Martha died when the real Martha became conscious again. The Sontarans started to realise they were being defeated, when the Valiant and UNIT started destroying part of the ATMOS factory, with Sontarans still inside. The Doctor got rid of the toxic smoke by using an atmospheric converter to burn up the gas in the atmosphere. The Doctor nearly blew up the Sontaran ship while still inside, and giving the aliens a chance, but they did not mind dying, and they knew the Doctor would not do it. Rattigan swapped places, using a teleport and the fleet was destroyed.