Diana Walker

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 19687

Walker nods, seeing that something must be explained further here....

Now, to understand this woman who calls herself Diana (or Diane) Walker, one must learn something about her past.

Diana Walker - She was one of several drill instructors hand picked to handle several dozen dwarven volunteers. Special instructors like here were needed because of the unique (and rather belligerent) nature of the volunteers. All the instructors were skilled at their jobs.

See, the Military at that point in time knew that the relationship between itself and the Company (the other major party in the Alliance was probably going to worsen to the point of war, now that the Enemy/Alliance war was over). Manpower worries had hatched a plan on recruiting native populations not already within the Military Protective proper in garrisoning duty. Terra Prime being important in the scheme of things (greatest source of tiberium ever discovered), the top brass wanted that place covered. With the challenges faced with non-human recruits, special drill instructors were needed. People like Diana Walker. All Military drill instructors have psychology degrees (the better to prepare a recruit so he won't frag himself or his combat mates in battle, dearie), but Walker and a few others also had degrees in "speculative" xeno-psychology, in addition of the normal degree in human psychology.

Walker stood out from the others in being able to bring any of her charges through alive and fit. Hers were the only dwarves who (literally) survived Bootcamp. The other dwarves had either been killed by their instructors (for attacking them), killed themselves when not listening to instructions during weapons training (amazing how much damage one does to themselves when the do not throw the grenade when one pulls it's pin), or had broken their fighting spirit (leaving only a hollow shell that pisses itself at every loud noise).

Walker had figured, correctly, that once you made it clear to these dwarves that you could take them in a far fight that she and her ways were worthy of being listened to... that she was even worthy of respect and honor! That perhaps human beings weren't as weak and pitiful as they'd grown to believe over the years. That said, once she won them over, they were converts.

Something of a cynic on religion, she always thought that religion was nothing but a con game, but was able to keep silent (and from laughing) when and her dwarven recruits were chosen to not only bring some dragon treasure as a peace gesture between dwarves and dragons....but also some long lost dwarven religious relics (arms and armor rumored to have been forged by the head dwarven god himself).

Terra Prime being what it is, things went weird.

Seems that the Forge (that head Dwarven God) decided that Walker would make the perfect Avatar and so shined down from the heavens and began speakiner (and acting) though Walker. Walker had no recollection of the event, but the eveidence of what happened were obvious enough. She'd soon find out that the dwarven clan leader (as the rest of his clan) had become cursed and became like the orcs they'd secretively allied themselves with. She'd also found herself with a soft glow to the skin and looking like an idealized eighteen year old version of herself.

Soon, she converted to the religion of the dwarves and became their Empress.

As a young woman she had belonged to a street gang back Home in London Sector and joined the Military to better her lot in life....as well as fight for something more than just a few blocks of turf.

That said, she also got cured of an increasingly dangerous bout of cyber-psychosis (basically insanity brought on by bad cybernetics). That and had found out from a medical examination that she was....pregnant with a boy and girl! Not very far along (a mere week or so) and she had been suffering an episode when whoever (one of a possible three boyfriends at the time) did had died in an ambush (i.e. no way of telling). No way in telling because some lowlifes had abscounded with the bodies before her gang could recover them. The organs black market was a booming business back then....and those fiends don't leave enough left over for even DNA analysis....

That said....

Walker is also a fanatical fan of Doctor Who and can quote word for word and line for line almost every episode ever made on her world! Her video and book collection on series is to amaze all who see it....

Finally, she and several others of her gang speak with a Cockney accent to harken back to better times. It was a way to remember and celebrate the past.

She tells the others this, and then adds one last thing.

She explains that when she had discovered she had been pregnant, she had opted to have the embryos removed and put into cryo-storage until she felt she was.....well.....she felt she was ready to settle down and actually devote the time and energy to raise them properly! She had, even back then, wondered what kind of mother she'd make....but figured if she was going to go down that road she wanted to build up enough resources and such so she could do her offspring justice! The original plan had been for her to do her "twenty" (years) , retire and then raise her children. Military medicine being what it was, she could live a LONG time (on par with what the Spacers of Asimov's stories enjoyed)..... Time enough, she figured, if she lived that long. If not, then her will had made arrangements for the embryos to be put up for adoption and them getting a handsome inheritance when they reached majority. But with her transfiguration on Terra Prime AND her becoming an Empress of the Dwarven Nation.....

Something had to be done with the dwarven society. Oh, she had plans on implimenting changes, never you mind that, but it was the way the dwarven males treated their dwarven women. Oh, nothing bad, you understand. It was just.....the lot of a dwarven woman meant that she'd never be let outside, into vulnerable situations. It was a holdover from those dark days when the dwarven race got pushed almost to the brink of extinction during a swift and fierce night of dragonfire and magic...... Long story there, but the end of it was that Walker wasn't about to raise girl child in such an environment . First, she did away with that long standing custom and then started on a program of building up the dwarven women's esteem and confidence.....showing them all what they were actually capable of and all that. In other words a liberation of sorts came with the arrival of Walker for the dwarven women of Terra Prime. Finally happy with that, she was going to make arrangements for her unborn children to be brought to Terra Prime. From there, she wasn't sure if she wanted to carry out a natural childbirth or what.

Betty and Ragen looked at each other at the last and just decided to not even bother asking....

"Well, do want to say I'd rather like to get together some time," Walker finally says, looking both at Betty and Ragan, "Share a few videos and such between fellow Doctor Who fans?"

"Sure, why not?" Betty answers, echoing Ragan.

Walker smiles a beaming smile, wishes them a "jolly good day" and "cheers", before going off to take care of some other business of her own (presumably to contact those who have her children in storage).

"Can't wait, really!" Betty said to her "sister", "Still haven't seen all those TV episodes from her world that came after our version got cancelled ."

Walker's BBC had continued on making Doctor Who episodes after Betty's (and Ragan's) BBC had cancelled the program, you see....

That done, the Doctor and Inquirer come back, telling the others that Rassilon would be leaving for Galifrey with Omega. There, Omega would be eased back into society (poor guy was still a bit unstable after all that time in antimatter universe).....

Sigin, meanwhile, suddenly finds something he'd accidentally taken from Colin awhile ago.

He pulls out the silver necklace with the fairy figurine on it, wondering if somehow they could all go back to the Doctor's Earth to track down Colin to give it back to him when he seems to notice something peculiar about it. Point in fact, he finally is noticing some odd, magical emissions coming within it.

"Faerie," Sigin whispers, looking at the figurine in one angle, then another.

  1. The others, not being close enough (except the elves) to hear that, only wonder what the problem here is with what Sigin is holding.

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