Post by Sarah Jane Smith on Sept 3, 2011 14:29:32 GMT -5
Name: Sarah Jane Smith
Alias or Custom Title:
Lavinia Smith
Sarah Bland
Felicity Barnes
Bunty Mansfield
Victoria Williams
Victoria Beckham
Age/Age appearance: 58
Appearence: (picture)
Hometown: Born in Foxgrove. Moved to South Croydon. At some time Sarah permanently moved from South Croydon to Ealing and bought a rather large house on 13 Bannerman Road.
Family:
Barbara Smith - Mother (deceased)
Eddie Smith - Father (deceased)
Lavinia Smith - Aunt (deceased)
Africana Smith - Uncle (deceased)
Brendan Richards - Adopted cousin
Luke Smith - Adopted son
Special Characteristics:
Sarah has traveled with many regenerations of The Doctor. (Seven out of the currently known eleven.) Sarah received training in evasion tactics from her UNIT days, which she never forgot, she stated "U.N.I.T training, never forgot it, just getting a bit older". She gained superb leadership skills from her time with the Doctor and was very good with her Sonic lipstick. She was intelligent and very knowledgeable about many types of aliens. Due to her experiences as a reporter she is also very good at finding out things she probably should stay out of.
Personality:
As a companion, Sarah Jane was confident, inquisitive and possessed a sharp mind and a sharp tongue. She was also something of a feminist; she was infuriated when the Third Doctor asked her to make coffee and she often verbally sparred with fellow companion Harry Sullivan over his chauvinistic and unintentionally patronising attitude towards her. Her feminism was more practical than fanatical, and did not get in the way of forming close friendships with Harry, or later with the Doctor himself. She shared a strong rapport with the Doctor, and her subsequent life has been shaped by her finding him a tough act to follow; she stops short of saying that she had fallen in love with the Doctor, though several of her exchanges with him after their reunion, in addition to the context of one of her conversations with Rose, strongly implies that she indeed had developed feelings for him. Despite the passage of time she maintained her can-do personality, and since reuniting with him, remained a close friend of the Doctor.
Rani once pointed out to the Tenth Doctor that Sarah Jane doesn't like being called just "Sarah", though he replied that "she does by me". Indeed, during her years traveling in the TARDIS the Doctor, along with a few other individuals such as Harry, and even Mike Yates, referred to her numerous times simply as "Sarah". To date, the Doctor remains the only person to still regularly call her this without her objection.
Status: (Time Lord, Companion, Time Agent etc)
Retired Companion
History:
Sarah Jane Smith was born in May 1951 in the village of Foxgrove. ) She had the astrological sign of Taurus. On 18th August 1951, her parents, Eddie and Barbara Smith, abandoned her in her pram and drove off in their car in order to protect the world from The Trickster. A few minutes later on a country lane, they drove into a tractor and were killed. Sarah Jane was raised by her Aunt, Lavinia Smith, a virologist.
In her youth, she developed a fear of clowns because of a clown puppet that used to hang in her room and stare down at her as she slept. During a thunderstorm the clown puppet appeared to move. In later life, she would discover that the puppet had been manipulated by the Pied Piper to induce coulrophobia in her.
In November 1963, Sarah Jane went on a day trip to London with her aunt. While her guardian was buying sweets for her, Sarah Jane explored a junkyard and saw a police box. After returning to her aunt, they walked by the junkyard, and she caught a glimpse of a young girl disappearing into it.
On 13th July 1964, while off on a school outing together, Sarah Jane's best friend, Andrea Yates, slipped off a pier to her death. The Trickster would later alter this event to create a timeline in which Sarah died rather than Andrea: a timeline which, many years later, would eventually doom the planet Earth. In the normal timeline, the event would change Sarah, impressing onto her the importance of life. She would never forget Andrea.
As a journalist, Sarah Jane was mentored by James Stevens. At age 23, while working for Metropolitan magazine, Sarah posed as her aunt, a famous virologist, to infiltrate a UNIT-controlled facility where some scientists had gone missing. She met Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT's unpaid scientific advisor, the Third Doctor. Suspicious of the Doctor's activities, Sarah Jane stowed away in his TARDIS and traveled back in time with him to 13th century England to defeat a Sontaran known as Linx, who had kidnapped the scientists.
Sarah Jane and the Doctor would have many adventures together both on Earth and on other planets. She got to know the Brigadier, Captain Mike Yates, and Sergeant Benton of UNIT and Jeremy Fitzoliver.
She met and fought the Daleks for the first time . Faction Paradox altered the Doctor's timeline twice while Sarah Jane traveled with him. In one timeline, the Doctor died (and did not regenerate) on the planet Dust. In another, the Doctor did regenerate, an event which should never have happened at that time and place. Later, these events reversed, allowing history to take its natural course.
In the regular timeline, the Doctor regenerated following his exposure to deadly radiation in the cave of the Great One on Metebelis III. Dying and his TARDIS lost in the Time Vortex, the Doctor left Sarah Jane and the Brigadier to await his return for three weeks. Sarah believed he had died, but the Brigadier kept faith. Sarah and the Brigadier watched as the Doctor's TARDIS returned to UNIT HQ and he regenerated in front of them into his next incarnation.
Along with another human companion, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane and the Doctor traveled to other adventures in time and space. The Doctor, in his new incarnation, had less interest in Earth, yet he seemed to have a closer relationship with Sarah Jane herself. She was on the planet Skaro during the creation of the Daleks by Davros and the Doctor's attempt to change or prevent it.
As she later related to Rose Tyler, Sarah encountered the Skarasen (a probable candidate for "Loch Ness Monster") , anti-matter monsters and "walking mummies." She also met the Cybermen.
Finally, after many trips with him, the Doctor received a summons to return to Gallifrey, his home world; as a human, Sarah Jane could not accompany him (although this ban was evidently later rescinded as the Doctor was able to bring human companions to Gallifrey, possibly due to his later ascension to the position of President of the Time Lords). The Doctor tried to leave her near her flat in South Croydon , but mistakenly left her in Aberdeen, Scotland, instead.
The Doctor would later suggest he did not return for Sarah because he feared becoming too attached to any individual human, given that the differences in their life expectancies meant he would almost inevitably have to watch them grow old and die.
The Doctor did not forget Sarah; he sent her K-9 Mark III as a companion and keepsake, which she unpacked and activated shortly before Christmas, 1981. Together, with her aunt Lavinia's other ward, Brendan Richards, they uncovered the murderous cult of Hecate in the village of Moreton Harwood. Sarah Jane was also instrumental in helping Harry Sullivan. Shortly after, a Time Scoop removed her (but not K-9) to the Death Zone on Gallifrey, where she participated in the Games of Rassilion, and re-united with the Doctor's third incarnation. She briefly met the first, second and fifth Doctors, and introduced herself to Tegan Jovanka. Sarah also had a reunion with the Brigadier and briefly met Susan Foreman and Turlough.
Decades later, Sarah Jane accompanied the Doctor's seventh incarnation to a jazz concert in the Royal Albert Hall and defeated an invasion of Earth by rogue members of the insectoid Kalik species.
In the mid-1990s, Sarah Jane worked with the Brigadier to defeat the Great Intelligence, which had possessed Victoria Waterfield, another of the Second Doctor's companions.
In 1996, with the Doctor's eighth incarnation's companion, Sam Jones, she fought against international human rights abuses and met her future husband, Paul Morley. In one possible future, at least, they had a daughter together named Lauren and a grandchild called Lily.
Later, in 1997, she assisted the Doctor's seventh incarnation against the Cortez Project in Hong Kong and (seemingly) died.
The Council of Eight altered history by having Sarah die well before she should have done. This seems to have been undone by the Doctor's eventual defeat of the Council.
Sarah Jane lost another family member sometime between 1990 and 1998 when her aunt, Lavinia Smith, died.
Another account shows Sarah still alive in 1998 when her own younger self visited that year with the Fourth Doctor and Harry Sullivan.
Several contradictory accounts exist of the birth, deaths and marriages that may have occurred in Sarah's life following this adventure.
K-9 broke down and Sarah did not know how to fix him. She knew she couldn't find anyone else to fix him because of his advanced technology. She continued to work as an investigative reporter following her departure from Planet 3 and her aunt's death. At this point in her work, she was joined by fellow investigators Natalie Redfern and Josh Townsend. A conspiracy to destroy her career was initiated against her by her old enemy Hilda Winters, who intended to commit a vicious bio-terrorist attack and frame Sarah for it, but Sarah and her companions thwarted this.
Two years on, Sarah had become tired and morose, knowing she couldn't talk about her past with anyone and starting to think she'd imagined it. She also became involved in the machinations of the doomsday cult known as the Crimson Chapter, who believed a four-hundred-year-old tome named the Book of Tomorrows which claimed aliens would wipe out humanity in the year 2000 - and discovered the tome made reference to her. To her horror, she discovered the Chapter wanted to commit genocide solely so their prophecy would be fulfilled, and that they believed she was the human herald of the alien apocalypse. While she prevented this, she was distraught to find out the Chapter and the Book of Tomorrows had been formed due to comments she'd made to Giuliano while traveling with the Doctor.
Following this and the discovery that her friend Josh was a cold-blooded killer for the rival White Chapter cult, she admitted that she was lonely and wondered if the Doctor had left her on Earth for a specific task. Needing something to believe in again, she went on the world's first commercial spaceflight, which would pass a comet that the White Chapter would bring salvation, only for the flight to be sabotaged by the last Crimson Chapter acolyte, killing Josh and leaving Sarah with failing life support and a vision of something she felt she'd been searching for.
While ending on a cliffhanger that hinted death, the story mentioned NASA was intending a rescue mission.
At some time Sarah permanently moved from South Croydon to Ealing and bought a rather large house on 13 Bannerman Road.
Sarah Jane and Bernice Summerfield at some point enjoyed a coffee together and shared memories of their times in the TARDIS.
During Christmas 2006, Sarah was a witness to the Sycorax invasion, in which she suspected the Doctor's involvement, foreshadowing her reunion with him the following year.
Reunion with the Tenth Doctor
In 2007, Sarah Jane investigated strange goings-on at Deffry Vale High School, leading her to an encounter with the Doctor in his tenth incarnation. She met the Doctor's current companion, Rose Tyler, and after some animosity, competition, and jealousy, bonded with the young woman. She helped convince the Doctor to take on Mickey Smith as a companion. During the incident at Deffry Vale where she aided the Doctor in foiling the Krillitanes, K-9 Mark III was destroyed, but the Doctor left her Mark IV. During this adventure, Sarah Jane came to terms with her inability to move on with her life after leaving the Doctor, and departed the Doctor's company with newfound confidence. He also gave her a sonic lipstick and a watch to scan for alien life hidden in a compartment in Mark IV.
An older Sarah found contentment as the leader of a band of kids. She chose to help the Earth by quietly opposing those aliens hostile to it, while simultaneously welcoming those aliens who might befriend it. Her philosophy of alien contact stood in stark contrast to UNIT and the Torchwood Institute, whom she believed tended go in "all guns blazing". K-9's unique abilities forced their separation. He became involved in a long-term project to stabilise an artificial black hole. Amongst the residents of Bannerman Road, she was viewed as a quiet and unsociable neighbour. Kelsey Harper, though likely exaggerating, described her as a "mad woman".
Some time after her encounter with the Doctor, a geologist friend found near the site of the Krakatoa eruption, an alien crystal, around which she built a computer which she named Mr Smith. Mr Smith possessed information on many alien species and the ability to contact any computer in the world.
Motherhood and new adventures
The Bane invasion changed all this. It events exposed her secrets to her young neighbour Maria Jackson, who had moved into 36 Bannerman Road. Along with "the archetype", an artificial human boy created by Bane technology, they defeated the Bane Mother. In the aftermath, Sarah Jane adopted the boy, re-naming him Luke. Sarah was no longer content to live alone and chose to include Maria and Luke in her adventures.
She enrolled Luke at Park Vale School, which Maria also attended. At Park Vale Luke met Clyde Langer, who became a friend of his and Maria's; all three helped Sarah defeat Slitheen who had infiltrated the school. They also helped her against the Gorgon. She and Maria saved Luke and Clyde from General Kudlak. She was almost wished out of reality by The Trickster until Maria's father Alan saved her and Maria. She was helped by the Slitheen to defeat Mr Smith, who had turned out to be evil, but with the help of Alan, Maria's father, re-programmed him.
When the Daleks transported Earth to the Medusa Cascade, Sarah Jane worked with Torchwood Three to contact the Tenth Doctor by having Mr Smith cause every telephone on Earth to ring the Doctor's TARDIS. She reluctantly left her son behind and found herself confronted by two Daleks. She again met Mickey Smith and made the acquaintance of Jackie Tyler who teleported in and saved her from the Daleks, and was then transported to the Dalek base, the Crucible. In the heart of the Crucible, she once more met Davros, and working with Jack Harkness, threatened to destroy the Crucible using a warp star she owned. After the defeat of the Daleks, she helped to drive the TARDIS and bring the Earth back home and said another farewell to the Tenth Doctor, commenting that, although he often spoke of being lonely, his wide range of companions gave him essentially the largest family on Earth.
Again with Luke, Clyde and Maria, she saw off the Sontaran known as Kaagh (the last survivor of the Sontaran invasion of Earth) who wanted to take Sarah Jane back to Sontar to stand trial in the Tenth Doctor's stead. During that adventure, Maria announced that her father had a job offer to move to America and had decided to let him take it. Six weeks later, she moved out.
Shortly afterwards, Rani Chandra, an aspiring teenage journalist, and her parents Gita and Haresh moved into Maria's former address and joined Luke and Clyde in defeating a child-stealing energy entity which had inspired the Pied Piper myth. Reluctantly, Sarah took Rani into the team. The entity thrived off of Sarah's fears of clowns which started one night in childhood. Afterwards, Rani joined the team permanently. Together, they defeated the Ancient Lights , the Berserker and even the Trickster when he attempted to manifest corporeally in Foxgrove in 1951. In the last adventure Sarah Jane learns why her parents abandoned her and was immensely proud of them. Later, Mrs Wormwood returned to Earth alongside the Sontaran Kaagh in an attempt to summon Horath, the immortal tyrant of the Dark Empire. With help from Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and due to infighting between Kaagh and Mrs Wormwood, they were able to stop this potential apocalypse.
In 2009, Sarah Jane and her friends fought Androvax, a Veil who took possession of Sarah Jane's body but thanks to Luke, Rani and Clyde, as well as a Judoon, she got it back. She and the gang also helped a lonely alien named Eve get back to her ship and fly away with her friends. During this incident K-9 was able to complete his mission relating to the black hole and return to Sarah Jane's side.
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane later met Peter Dalton and they got engaged, much to Luke, Rani and Clyde's surprise. At her wedding she got two very special, uninvited guests, her greatest ally and arch enemy. She was teleported to limbo by the Trickster and separated from her companions and the Doctor. She had to allow Peter to sacrifice himself to defeat the Trickster, seemingly forever. She had genuinely been in love with Peter and when she and the others returned to Earth, she was left heartbroken, with tears in her eyes, saying that the wedding was off before she went home. She was checked up on by Luke, Clyde and Rani as well as the Doctor, who allowed Sarah Jane's gang to have a look inside the TARDIS. She then bid another farewell to the Doctor in the manner of their original departure
Sarah Jane's next challenges would be against unique aliens which were unlike any she had previously faced: her beliefs regarding ghosts were tested by her encounter with Erasmus Darkening, and the Mona Lisa would come to life shortly after Sarah Jane and Luke argued for the first time about average teenage habits. Later Sarah Jane would attempt to thwart another Slitheen plot which threatened the Earth. Despite the best efforts of Luke, Rani, Clyde, K-9 and her, the Slitheen could not be stopped. Fortunately members of the Blathereen family arrived in time to stop the Slitheen. They then tricked Sarah Jane into accepting a gift: a Rakweed plant. It mutated overnight and began to spread across London and threatened to kill anyone infected by its spores, Luke being the first to inhale the spores and coming close to death as a result. Fortunately a way for Mr Smith to destroy the Rakweed was discovered but Sarah Jane was forced to kill the Blathereen, an act she immediately regretted.
Luke told Sarah Jane that he would be doing his A levels a year early whilst Sarah Jane was being held captive by a Slitheen. Rani and Clyde quickly defeated the Slitheen with a bucket of vinegar and Sarah Jane said Luke should go to university.
After the incident with the The Master Race, Sarah Jane asked Mr. Smith to create a cover story so that everyone would not become suspicious of more alien activity, using a fake story of how the wifi system had encountered a major technical malfunction all around the world that caused everyone to have hallucinations. She was later told by Luke that the Doctor had arrived and saved his life. She then watched as he waved goodbye before entering the TARDIS, and smiled, showing signs of knowing what was about to happen.
Previous role-playing experience (if any): See Capt. Jack Harkness
RP Sample: See Capt. Jack Harkness
Alias or Custom Title:
Lavinia Smith
Sarah Bland
Felicity Barnes
Bunty Mansfield
Victoria Williams
Victoria Beckham
Age/Age appearance: 58
Appearence: (picture)
Hometown: Born in Foxgrove. Moved to South Croydon. At some time Sarah permanently moved from South Croydon to Ealing and bought a rather large house on 13 Bannerman Road.
Family:
Barbara Smith - Mother (deceased)
Eddie Smith - Father (deceased)
Lavinia Smith - Aunt (deceased)
Africana Smith - Uncle (deceased)
Brendan Richards - Adopted cousin
Luke Smith - Adopted son
Special Characteristics:
Sarah has traveled with many regenerations of The Doctor. (Seven out of the currently known eleven.) Sarah received training in evasion tactics from her UNIT days, which she never forgot, she stated "U.N.I.T training, never forgot it, just getting a bit older". She gained superb leadership skills from her time with the Doctor and was very good with her Sonic lipstick. She was intelligent and very knowledgeable about many types of aliens. Due to her experiences as a reporter she is also very good at finding out things she probably should stay out of.
Personality:
As a companion, Sarah Jane was confident, inquisitive and possessed a sharp mind and a sharp tongue. She was also something of a feminist; she was infuriated when the Third Doctor asked her to make coffee and she often verbally sparred with fellow companion Harry Sullivan over his chauvinistic and unintentionally patronising attitude towards her. Her feminism was more practical than fanatical, and did not get in the way of forming close friendships with Harry, or later with the Doctor himself. She shared a strong rapport with the Doctor, and her subsequent life has been shaped by her finding him a tough act to follow; she stops short of saying that she had fallen in love with the Doctor, though several of her exchanges with him after their reunion, in addition to the context of one of her conversations with Rose, strongly implies that she indeed had developed feelings for him. Despite the passage of time she maintained her can-do personality, and since reuniting with him, remained a close friend of the Doctor.
Rani once pointed out to the Tenth Doctor that Sarah Jane doesn't like being called just "Sarah", though he replied that "she does by me". Indeed, during her years traveling in the TARDIS the Doctor, along with a few other individuals such as Harry, and even Mike Yates, referred to her numerous times simply as "Sarah". To date, the Doctor remains the only person to still regularly call her this without her objection.
Status: (Time Lord, Companion, Time Agent etc)
Retired Companion
History:
Sarah Jane Smith was born in May 1951 in the village of Foxgrove. ) She had the astrological sign of Taurus. On 18th August 1951, her parents, Eddie and Barbara Smith, abandoned her in her pram and drove off in their car in order to protect the world from The Trickster. A few minutes later on a country lane, they drove into a tractor and were killed. Sarah Jane was raised by her Aunt, Lavinia Smith, a virologist.
In her youth, she developed a fear of clowns because of a clown puppet that used to hang in her room and stare down at her as she slept. During a thunderstorm the clown puppet appeared to move. In later life, she would discover that the puppet had been manipulated by the Pied Piper to induce coulrophobia in her.
In November 1963, Sarah Jane went on a day trip to London with her aunt. While her guardian was buying sweets for her, Sarah Jane explored a junkyard and saw a police box. After returning to her aunt, they walked by the junkyard, and she caught a glimpse of a young girl disappearing into it.
On 13th July 1964, while off on a school outing together, Sarah Jane's best friend, Andrea Yates, slipped off a pier to her death. The Trickster would later alter this event to create a timeline in which Sarah died rather than Andrea: a timeline which, many years later, would eventually doom the planet Earth. In the normal timeline, the event would change Sarah, impressing onto her the importance of life. She would never forget Andrea.
As a journalist, Sarah Jane was mentored by James Stevens. At age 23, while working for Metropolitan magazine, Sarah posed as her aunt, a famous virologist, to infiltrate a UNIT-controlled facility where some scientists had gone missing. She met Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT's unpaid scientific advisor, the Third Doctor. Suspicious of the Doctor's activities, Sarah Jane stowed away in his TARDIS and traveled back in time with him to 13th century England to defeat a Sontaran known as Linx, who had kidnapped the scientists.
Sarah Jane and the Doctor would have many adventures together both on Earth and on other planets. She got to know the Brigadier, Captain Mike Yates, and Sergeant Benton of UNIT and Jeremy Fitzoliver.
She met and fought the Daleks for the first time . Faction Paradox altered the Doctor's timeline twice while Sarah Jane traveled with him. In one timeline, the Doctor died (and did not regenerate) on the planet Dust. In another, the Doctor did regenerate, an event which should never have happened at that time and place. Later, these events reversed, allowing history to take its natural course.
In the regular timeline, the Doctor regenerated following his exposure to deadly radiation in the cave of the Great One on Metebelis III. Dying and his TARDIS lost in the Time Vortex, the Doctor left Sarah Jane and the Brigadier to await his return for three weeks. Sarah believed he had died, but the Brigadier kept faith. Sarah and the Brigadier watched as the Doctor's TARDIS returned to UNIT HQ and he regenerated in front of them into his next incarnation.
Along with another human companion, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane and the Doctor traveled to other adventures in time and space. The Doctor, in his new incarnation, had less interest in Earth, yet he seemed to have a closer relationship with Sarah Jane herself. She was on the planet Skaro during the creation of the Daleks by Davros and the Doctor's attempt to change or prevent it.
As she later related to Rose Tyler, Sarah encountered the Skarasen (a probable candidate for "Loch Ness Monster") , anti-matter monsters and "walking mummies." She also met the Cybermen.
Finally, after many trips with him, the Doctor received a summons to return to Gallifrey, his home world; as a human, Sarah Jane could not accompany him (although this ban was evidently later rescinded as the Doctor was able to bring human companions to Gallifrey, possibly due to his later ascension to the position of President of the Time Lords). The Doctor tried to leave her near her flat in South Croydon , but mistakenly left her in Aberdeen, Scotland, instead.
The Doctor would later suggest he did not return for Sarah because he feared becoming too attached to any individual human, given that the differences in their life expectancies meant he would almost inevitably have to watch them grow old and die.
The Doctor did not forget Sarah; he sent her K-9 Mark III as a companion and keepsake, which she unpacked and activated shortly before Christmas, 1981. Together, with her aunt Lavinia's other ward, Brendan Richards, they uncovered the murderous cult of Hecate in the village of Moreton Harwood. Sarah Jane was also instrumental in helping Harry Sullivan. Shortly after, a Time Scoop removed her (but not K-9) to the Death Zone on Gallifrey, where she participated in the Games of Rassilion, and re-united with the Doctor's third incarnation. She briefly met the first, second and fifth Doctors, and introduced herself to Tegan Jovanka. Sarah also had a reunion with the Brigadier and briefly met Susan Foreman and Turlough.
Decades later, Sarah Jane accompanied the Doctor's seventh incarnation to a jazz concert in the Royal Albert Hall and defeated an invasion of Earth by rogue members of the insectoid Kalik species.
In the mid-1990s, Sarah Jane worked with the Brigadier to defeat the Great Intelligence, which had possessed Victoria Waterfield, another of the Second Doctor's companions.
In 1996, with the Doctor's eighth incarnation's companion, Sam Jones, she fought against international human rights abuses and met her future husband, Paul Morley. In one possible future, at least, they had a daughter together named Lauren and a grandchild called Lily.
Later, in 1997, she assisted the Doctor's seventh incarnation against the Cortez Project in Hong Kong and (seemingly) died.
The Council of Eight altered history by having Sarah die well before she should have done. This seems to have been undone by the Doctor's eventual defeat of the Council.
Sarah Jane lost another family member sometime between 1990 and 1998 when her aunt, Lavinia Smith, died.
Another account shows Sarah still alive in 1998 when her own younger self visited that year with the Fourth Doctor and Harry Sullivan.
Several contradictory accounts exist of the birth, deaths and marriages that may have occurred in Sarah's life following this adventure.
K-9 broke down and Sarah did not know how to fix him. She knew she couldn't find anyone else to fix him because of his advanced technology. She continued to work as an investigative reporter following her departure from Planet 3 and her aunt's death. At this point in her work, she was joined by fellow investigators Natalie Redfern and Josh Townsend. A conspiracy to destroy her career was initiated against her by her old enemy Hilda Winters, who intended to commit a vicious bio-terrorist attack and frame Sarah for it, but Sarah and her companions thwarted this.
Two years on, Sarah had become tired and morose, knowing she couldn't talk about her past with anyone and starting to think she'd imagined it. She also became involved in the machinations of the doomsday cult known as the Crimson Chapter, who believed a four-hundred-year-old tome named the Book of Tomorrows which claimed aliens would wipe out humanity in the year 2000 - and discovered the tome made reference to her. To her horror, she discovered the Chapter wanted to commit genocide solely so their prophecy would be fulfilled, and that they believed she was the human herald of the alien apocalypse. While she prevented this, she was distraught to find out the Chapter and the Book of Tomorrows had been formed due to comments she'd made to Giuliano while traveling with the Doctor.
Following this and the discovery that her friend Josh was a cold-blooded killer for the rival White Chapter cult, she admitted that she was lonely and wondered if the Doctor had left her on Earth for a specific task. Needing something to believe in again, she went on the world's first commercial spaceflight, which would pass a comet that the White Chapter would bring salvation, only for the flight to be sabotaged by the last Crimson Chapter acolyte, killing Josh and leaving Sarah with failing life support and a vision of something she felt she'd been searching for.
While ending on a cliffhanger that hinted death, the story mentioned NASA was intending a rescue mission.
At some time Sarah permanently moved from South Croydon to Ealing and bought a rather large house on 13 Bannerman Road.
Sarah Jane and Bernice Summerfield at some point enjoyed a coffee together and shared memories of their times in the TARDIS.
During Christmas 2006, Sarah was a witness to the Sycorax invasion, in which she suspected the Doctor's involvement, foreshadowing her reunion with him the following year.
Reunion with the Tenth Doctor
In 2007, Sarah Jane investigated strange goings-on at Deffry Vale High School, leading her to an encounter with the Doctor in his tenth incarnation. She met the Doctor's current companion, Rose Tyler, and after some animosity, competition, and jealousy, bonded with the young woman. She helped convince the Doctor to take on Mickey Smith as a companion. During the incident at Deffry Vale where she aided the Doctor in foiling the Krillitanes, K-9 Mark III was destroyed, but the Doctor left her Mark IV. During this adventure, Sarah Jane came to terms with her inability to move on with her life after leaving the Doctor, and departed the Doctor's company with newfound confidence. He also gave her a sonic lipstick and a watch to scan for alien life hidden in a compartment in Mark IV.
An older Sarah found contentment as the leader of a band of kids. She chose to help the Earth by quietly opposing those aliens hostile to it, while simultaneously welcoming those aliens who might befriend it. Her philosophy of alien contact stood in stark contrast to UNIT and the Torchwood Institute, whom she believed tended go in "all guns blazing". K-9's unique abilities forced their separation. He became involved in a long-term project to stabilise an artificial black hole. Amongst the residents of Bannerman Road, she was viewed as a quiet and unsociable neighbour. Kelsey Harper, though likely exaggerating, described her as a "mad woman".
Some time after her encounter with the Doctor, a geologist friend found near the site of the Krakatoa eruption, an alien crystal, around which she built a computer which she named Mr Smith. Mr Smith possessed information on many alien species and the ability to contact any computer in the world.
Motherhood and new adventures
The Bane invasion changed all this. It events exposed her secrets to her young neighbour Maria Jackson, who had moved into 36 Bannerman Road. Along with "the archetype", an artificial human boy created by Bane technology, they defeated the Bane Mother. In the aftermath, Sarah Jane adopted the boy, re-naming him Luke. Sarah was no longer content to live alone and chose to include Maria and Luke in her adventures.
She enrolled Luke at Park Vale School, which Maria also attended. At Park Vale Luke met Clyde Langer, who became a friend of his and Maria's; all three helped Sarah defeat Slitheen who had infiltrated the school. They also helped her against the Gorgon. She and Maria saved Luke and Clyde from General Kudlak. She was almost wished out of reality by The Trickster until Maria's father Alan saved her and Maria. She was helped by the Slitheen to defeat Mr Smith, who had turned out to be evil, but with the help of Alan, Maria's father, re-programmed him.
When the Daleks transported Earth to the Medusa Cascade, Sarah Jane worked with Torchwood Three to contact the Tenth Doctor by having Mr Smith cause every telephone on Earth to ring the Doctor's TARDIS. She reluctantly left her son behind and found herself confronted by two Daleks. She again met Mickey Smith and made the acquaintance of Jackie Tyler who teleported in and saved her from the Daleks, and was then transported to the Dalek base, the Crucible. In the heart of the Crucible, she once more met Davros, and working with Jack Harkness, threatened to destroy the Crucible using a warp star she owned. After the defeat of the Daleks, she helped to drive the TARDIS and bring the Earth back home and said another farewell to the Tenth Doctor, commenting that, although he often spoke of being lonely, his wide range of companions gave him essentially the largest family on Earth.
Again with Luke, Clyde and Maria, she saw off the Sontaran known as Kaagh (the last survivor of the Sontaran invasion of Earth) who wanted to take Sarah Jane back to Sontar to stand trial in the Tenth Doctor's stead. During that adventure, Maria announced that her father had a job offer to move to America and had decided to let him take it. Six weeks later, she moved out.
Shortly afterwards, Rani Chandra, an aspiring teenage journalist, and her parents Gita and Haresh moved into Maria's former address and joined Luke and Clyde in defeating a child-stealing energy entity which had inspired the Pied Piper myth. Reluctantly, Sarah took Rani into the team. The entity thrived off of Sarah's fears of clowns which started one night in childhood. Afterwards, Rani joined the team permanently. Together, they defeated the Ancient Lights , the Berserker and even the Trickster when he attempted to manifest corporeally in Foxgrove in 1951. In the last adventure Sarah Jane learns why her parents abandoned her and was immensely proud of them. Later, Mrs Wormwood returned to Earth alongside the Sontaran Kaagh in an attempt to summon Horath, the immortal tyrant of the Dark Empire. With help from Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and due to infighting between Kaagh and Mrs Wormwood, they were able to stop this potential apocalypse.
In 2009, Sarah Jane and her friends fought Androvax, a Veil who took possession of Sarah Jane's body but thanks to Luke, Rani and Clyde, as well as a Judoon, she got it back. She and the gang also helped a lonely alien named Eve get back to her ship and fly away with her friends. During this incident K-9 was able to complete his mission relating to the black hole and return to Sarah Jane's side.
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane later met Peter Dalton and they got engaged, much to Luke, Rani and Clyde's surprise. At her wedding she got two very special, uninvited guests, her greatest ally and arch enemy. She was teleported to limbo by the Trickster and separated from her companions and the Doctor. She had to allow Peter to sacrifice himself to defeat the Trickster, seemingly forever. She had genuinely been in love with Peter and when she and the others returned to Earth, she was left heartbroken, with tears in her eyes, saying that the wedding was off before she went home. She was checked up on by Luke, Clyde and Rani as well as the Doctor, who allowed Sarah Jane's gang to have a look inside the TARDIS. She then bid another farewell to the Doctor in the manner of their original departure
Sarah Jane's next challenges would be against unique aliens which were unlike any she had previously faced: her beliefs regarding ghosts were tested by her encounter with Erasmus Darkening, and the Mona Lisa would come to life shortly after Sarah Jane and Luke argued for the first time about average teenage habits. Later Sarah Jane would attempt to thwart another Slitheen plot which threatened the Earth. Despite the best efforts of Luke, Rani, Clyde, K-9 and her, the Slitheen could not be stopped. Fortunately members of the Blathereen family arrived in time to stop the Slitheen. They then tricked Sarah Jane into accepting a gift: a Rakweed plant. It mutated overnight and began to spread across London and threatened to kill anyone infected by its spores, Luke being the first to inhale the spores and coming close to death as a result. Fortunately a way for Mr Smith to destroy the Rakweed was discovered but Sarah Jane was forced to kill the Blathereen, an act she immediately regretted.
Luke told Sarah Jane that he would be doing his A levels a year early whilst Sarah Jane was being held captive by a Slitheen. Rani and Clyde quickly defeated the Slitheen with a bucket of vinegar and Sarah Jane said Luke should go to university.
After the incident with the The Master Race, Sarah Jane asked Mr. Smith to create a cover story so that everyone would not become suspicious of more alien activity, using a fake story of how the wifi system had encountered a major technical malfunction all around the world that caused everyone to have hallucinations. She was later told by Luke that the Doctor had arrived and saved his life. She then watched as he waved goodbye before entering the TARDIS, and smiled, showing signs of knowing what was about to happen.
Previous role-playing experience (if any): See Capt. Jack Harkness
RP Sample: See Capt. Jack Harkness