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Kaldor City is a human city of the future on an unspecified alien world, created by Chris Boucher for the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Robots of Death'' broadcast in 1977, and reused in his Past Doctor Adventure ''Corpse Marker'' in 1999. It is also the setting and title of a series of audio plays produced by Magic Bullet Productions. Some of the plays in the series also feature the Fendahl, a race of creatures also created by Boucher for the Doctor Who story ''Image of the Fendahl''. Kaldor City is a major city "on a corrupt world governed by an all-powerful Company, where the rich scheme in mansions filled with robot slaves, the poor scrabble for survival in the Sewerpits, the Security forces are out of control and terrorism is a daily fact of life".〔(About Kaldor City and Magic Bullet )〕 The city was first mentioned in ''The Robots of Death'' as the home base of a "storm mine" touring the desert searching for and mining precious minerals from within the sands, with the crew working on commission for the Company. The society shown in ''The Robots of Death'' is one where higher class "founding families" (presumably a reference to the families that founded the colony planet) have hit financial difficulties and are forced to work with (and sometimes subordinate to) citizens who have achieved their power, influence and wealth through their own hard work and scheming. This has led to a certain amount of resentment between the new and old money, reflecting the decline in the financial power of the gentry in England. The society is also highly reliant on the use of robots at all levels, with three class of robots being used: Dum robots are for menial work and are unable to speak; Voc robots are the next level up and can speak and have limited reasoning capabilities; Super-Voc robots are the most advanced robots, and can be used to monitor complex activities including the day-to-day activities of other, lower class robots. Each robot is given a designation based on its class (for example D-84 is a Dum class robot and SV-7 is a Super-Voc) and is programmed with a variant on Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. The society is not entirely comfortable with the use of robots, and the machines' humanoid design but complete lack of emotion and body language have given rise to a mental disorder called Robo-Phobia. This is shown as a paranoid delusion that robots are actually the living dead, intent on harming humans. ''The Robots of Death'' also shows us that it is possible to reprogram robots so that they can break the restrictions on them harming humans, as robotics genius Taren Capel has discovered in his attempts to free his robot "brothers" from their slavery. Kaldor City is also the setting of the Past Doctor Adventure ''Corpse Marker'', where we get to see the city and its ruling board of "Topmasters". At the time of ''Corpse Marker'', the Board comprises twenty Topmasters from the founding families, and they are seen to be keen to keep anyone not from a founding family off the board. The novel also introduces the character of Carnell to Kaldor City, who is a psychostrategist on the run from a corrupt "Federation" and hiding out in the city whilst ingratiating himself to the board by helping them compose their strategies: Carnell is a character from one of Chris Boucher's ''Blake's 7'' episodes, ''Weapon'' broadcast in 1979, and this novel is the first time that the fan-theory that ''Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7'' take place in the same fictional universe has received any kind of semi-official recognition. This theory has its basis in the story that ''Blakes 7'' creator Terry Nation wanted to introduce his ''Doctor Who'' monsters the Daleks into the series, but was stopped by the BBC. The novel also introduces the concept of the sewer-pits, the slums of Kaldor City where the underclass try to scrape their living. The slums are the breeding ground of a new breed of terrorists, the Tarenists, who have adapted the teachings of the late Taren Capel into an almost religious doctrine preaching the downfall of the ruling classes at the hands of robots. By the end of the novel, Topmaster Uvanov (formerly commander of the storm mine in ''The Robots of Death'', and not a member of a founding family) has secured his succession to Chairholder of the Company Board. ==Audio plays== In 1999, Magic Bullet Productions approached Chris Boucher to discuss the possibility of creating a range of audio plays based on the characters and concepts from his previous work relating to Kaldor City. Boucher gave his permission, working closely with producer Alan Stevens in creating a vision consistent with all that had gone before whilst also creating a new and interesting ongoing story. Boucher also wrote the second of the releases, the play ''Death's Head''.〔(Chris Boucher Interview, Jez Strickley, Star One issue #3 (March 2011), pages 4-11 )〕〔(The True History of Magic Bullet: Interview with Alan Stevens, Chris Duecker, June 8, 2009 )〕 The plays feature a cast headed by Paul Darrow, Scott Fredericks and Russell Hunter, with, among others, David Baillie, David Collings, Philip Madoc, Peter Miles and Gregory de Polnay. They feature sound design, effects and music by Alistair Lock, and are co-directed by both Stevens and Lock. The first three CDs can be heard on their own as standalone stories, but the final three form a serial, and should be listened to in order. From the early releases, it seemed that the series was telling a story of political intrigue and manipulation that was gearing towards the use of the robot workforce as a means of revolution, as shown previously in ''The Robots of Death'' and ''Corpse Marker''. However, the fifth play ''Checkmate'' by Alan Stevens takes the theme of manipulation to a higher level, introducing the Fendahl from Boucher's ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Image of the Fendahl'' as the series' major villain, manipulating events in Kaldor City to ensure its own emergence. Once the Fendahl's involvement was made known, it was possible to return to the series' earlier installments and see the emergence foreshadowed: for example, Uvanov is given a painting of a Fendahleen, and Carnell muses about the existence of an alien grand manipulator whose goals and methods would be unknowable.〔(There Have Always Been Crossovers: Kaldor City Audios, Lynn Clark, Star One issue #3 (March 2011), pages 28-31 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaldor City」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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