Nimrod (Doctor Who)
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| Doctor Who character | |
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 Nimrod, as portrayed on Project: Valhalla |
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| Nimrod | |
| Affiliated with | The Forge |
| Race | Human |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Home era | 20th century |
| First appearance | Project: Twilight |
| Last appearance | Project: Lazarus |
| Portrayed by | Stephen Chance |
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, and should not be confused with the character of the same name from the serial Ghost Light (1989). 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 replaced Colonel Crichton as Deputy Director of the Forge. He has encountered the Time Lord known as the Doctor at least three times, twice in his Sixth incarnation and once in his Seventh. His Project: Lazarus was designed to create clones of a Time Lord to find out about the regeneration process, and succeeded in creating multiple clones of the Sixth Doctor before the Seventh discovered and stopped the project with the aid of one of the clones.
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 he created during Project: Lazarus. He is bald and has almost completely colourless skin and lips, while his eyes are a vibrant blue. His cybernetic implants allow him to link to Oracle, the Forge's supercomputer, and also keep track of the vital signs of other Forge personnel in the vicinity. His weapon of choice is a specially designed crossbow.
Nimrod is played by British actor Stephen Chance. A novel, Project: Valhalla, by Scott and Wright, featuring Nimrod and the Forge, was published in December 2005. Also in 2005, a webcomic called The Forge: Project Longinus began serialisation, written by Scott and Wright and illustrated by Bryan Coyle. The character also appears in the short story Twilight's End in Short Trips: Defining Patterns.
