Nimrod (Doctor Who)
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Template:Doctorwhocharacter Nimrod is a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, which are based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is an original character and does not appear in the television series. The canonicity of the audio dramas, like other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear.
Nimrod works for The Forge, a top-secret organization responsible for experimenting with extraterrestrial material. As Dr William Abberton, Nimrod was responsible for genetic experiments on vampire DNA — the so called Project Twilight — creating a hybrid race to act as super-soldiers. However, when the hybrids escaped, Abberton was mortally injured, only saving himself by injecting himself with the Twilight Virus, turning himself into a hybrid as well. He took the code name Nimrod, after the legendary hunter king, and hunted down the survivors of his vampire experiments.
Years later, after the completion of his mission, he was promoted to Deputy Director of the Forge. He has encountered the Time Lord known as the Doctor at least three times, in his Sixth and Seventh incarnations. His Project: Lazarus was designed to create clones of a Time Lord to find out about the regeneration process.
Nimrod is an unethical scientist who does not suffer fools gladly. He is cruel and sadistic as seen in his treatment of the Huldan alien creature, and of the Doctor clones that he created.
Nimrod is played by British actor Stephen Chance. A novel, Project: Valhalla, by Scott and Wright and featuring The Forge, is due to be published by Big Finish in 2005
External links
- Cavan Scott's website (http://www.beyondtheforge.co.uk/)