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The Autons are essentially life sized plastic dummies, animated by the Nestene Consciousness, an extraterrestrial, disembodied gestalt intelligence which first arrived on Earth in hollow plastic meteorites.  Autons conceal deadly weapons within their hands, which can kill or vaporize their targets. The typical Auton does not look particularly realistic, resembling a mannequin, being robotic in its movements and mute.
 

* Auton

The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce was set up to tackle human contact with the extraterrestrial and paranormal - especially when that contact proved dangerous. But when the battles were over, when the top-secret 'clean ups' had been completed, where was all the alien technology taken?  The Warehouse... UNIT's highly classified storage and research establishment. Here lie the dead, forgotten relics of past battles and encounters.  But what happens when one of these relics is reactivated?  UNIT has only one way of dealing with its mistakes. The Containment Team has been summoned... and the outcome is far from certain...

 

* Auton 2: Sentinel

"We have been colonising other planets for a thousand million years"

Two years have passed since the Nestene creature vanished from UNIT's top secret Warehouse when it suddenly strikes, once again Using Autons as its deadly foot soldiers. Mysterious UNIT Operative Lockwood is joined in battle by Natasha Alexander, a scientific adviser with her own sinister agenda.

 

* Auton 3 : Awakening

"We are time Lockwood. And you are but a nanosecond in the history of my species..."

The Millhampton Event has left an entire population at the mercy of the Nestene Consciousness. UNIT's only hope of halting an unstoppable AUTON invasion is to find Lockwood. But UNIT's most enigmatic and talented operative is missing. Within his mind are the means through which the Consciousness wil return to life and destroy the human race. Lockwood will not be given up easily. Palmer knows that time is running out, as the world's computer networks break down he leads a desperate mission into the heart of AUTON control. Sal and Ramsay can only hope they will survive to find Lockwood before the Nestene Consciousness takes over his mind completely and extinguishes all life on Earth...

 

The Autons appear in these stories:
TV - Spearhead from Space, Terror of the Autons, Rose, Love & Monsters
 
Books - Scales of Injustice, Business Unusual, Instruments of Darkness, Synthespians(TM)
 

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