THE DOCTOR BRINGS ROSE TYLER AND ADAM Mitchell to the year 200,000 in order to observe the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
This consists of one million planets and species, with planet Earth as its hub – a world of megacities, encircled by five moons and a vast population of 96 billion. However, as the travellers investigate Satellite Five, the news broadcasting space station that orbits the Earth, the Doctor realises that something is seriously wrong: there’s no evidence of the elevated culture, art, politics or cuisine that he knows to be characteristic of this period of human history.