Every other species from human to Time Lord to Lupari met the coming of the cataclysm with panic and fear, but to the Sontarans, it was Christmas. That attitude explains why, when ‘ The Halloween Apocalypse’ revealed The Flux – an atomising entity roaming the universe and destroying everything in its path, the Sontarans were thrilled. Why stop when there’s a perfectly good war to be had? Sontar-Ha, Sontar-Ha!ĭoctor Who: Ranking the Dalek Stories – Which is the Best? By Andrew Blair That’s why they’ve been battling the Rutans for over 50,000 years. There’s no sense of self-preservation or staying out of unwinnable conflicts – for them, life’s only purpose is conflict. To the Sontarans, war is the greatest outcome and death in battle the highest achievement. The Sontaran army can’t just afford a high body count, it actively aims for one. It’s little wonder they rush headlong into battle at any opportunity they have the numbers. Their cloning techniques are so advanced that one million brand new clone soldiers can be produced in their hatcheries in roughly the time it takes to soft-boil an egg.

That’s a massive part of what makes the Sontaran army’s reputation: it has scale. As lab-grown batch clones, you could kill one and minutes later, a hundred others would rise up in its place. Not that the loss of a single soldier would be any great pain to the Sontaran Empire. Also, probably, how difficult it is to find shirt collars that fit. Their chief topics of conversation are the glory of the Sontaran Empire, the joy of battle, and the puniness of all other species whose defeat will inevitably come at their own three-fingered hands. Sontarans say they’re all action, but they love to talk. It’s tricky but do-able if somebody else keeps them talking. That’s assuming an opponent is able to sneak up to the back of a helmet-free Sontaran unnoticed, of course. The finest soldiers in the galaxy – as Ten describes them in ‘ The Sontaran Stratagem’ – defeated by items that could be readily sourced from any branch of Go Outdoors. Give an exposed probic vent one good whack and those stumpy, grumpy fellas fold like deckchairs.

It’s the little hole on the back of their neck known as the probic vent, see.

All weapons used in the world of Doctor Who to disable the martial might of a Sontaran soldier.

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