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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This story hints at a relationship between [[the War Chief]] and [[the Master]], the reality of which is categorically denied by [[Rowellanuraven]] in the same paragraph where she dismisses the "rumour" that the Master was involved in the events of ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''. Though it is easy to read in light of [[Target novelisation]]s' assertion that the Master and the War Chief were actually one and the same, it must be noted that in ''[[The Legions of Death]]'', which is not considered a [[Tardis:Valid source|valid source]] on this Wiki due to its interactive nature but shared a writer with ''CIA File Extracts'', it was instead suggested that the War Chief was a disciple of the Master and had been acting on his orders in ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]''.
* This story hints at a relationship between [[the War Chief]] and [[the Master]], the reality of which is categorically denied by [[Rowellanuraven]] in the same paragraph where she dismisses the "rumour" that the Master was involved in the events of ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''. Though it is easy to read in light of [[Target novelisation]]s' assertion that the Master and the War Chief were actually one and the same, it must be noted that in ''[[The Legions of Death (game)|The Legions of Death]]'', which shared a writer with ''CIA File Extracts'', it was instead suggested that the War Chief was a disciple of the Master and had been acting on his orders in ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]''.
* This story sees the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] believing that [[the Monk]] (as played by [[Peter Butterworth]]) was the sixth incarnation of the Master. This idea, while once a common fan theory, was abandoned as time went on, with stories depicting a different fate for the Monk after ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' than immediately [[Regeneration|regenerating]] into an incarnation who went by "the Master". Indeed, in the context of a story featuring a {{Hound|n=post-Butterworth Monk}} ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Too Many Masters (audio story)|Too Many Masters]]''), the Monk himself categorically denied being an incarnation of the Master, with the [[Missy|incarnation of the Master]] present scoffing at the concept also.
* This story sees the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] believing that [[the Monk]] (as played by [[Peter Butterworth]]) was the sixth incarnation of the Master. This idea, while once a common fan theory, was abandoned as time went on, with stories depicting a different fate for the Monk after ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' than immediately [[Regeneration|regenerating]] into an incarnation who went by "the Master". Indeed, in the context of a story featuring a {{Hound|n=post-Butterworth Monk}} ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Too Many Masters (audio story)|Too Many Masters]]''), the Monk himself categorically denied being an incarnation of the Master, with the [[Missy|incarnation of the Master]] present scoffing at the concept also.
* This story treats [[Roger Delgado]]'s {{Delgado|n= incarnation of the Master}} as having been the last of the Master's original [[regeneration cycle]], in contrast with other sources which view it as the second-to-last.
* This story treats [[Roger Delgado]]'s {{Delgado|n= incarnation of the Master}} as having been the last of the Master's original [[regeneration cycle]], in contrast with other sources which view it as the second-to-last.

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CIA File Extracts was the second in the series of three short DWU books published by FASA to tie in with The Doctor Who Role Playing Game. Like the other two, it contained no interactive elements, instead being presented as an in-universe history of its subjects, one of the Doctor's main enemies: the Master.

The cover gave the title as The Master: CIA File Extracts. However, the book's legal title, as it appeared on the copyright page, was instead CIA File Extracts.

Publisher's summary

According to CIA studies and reports, the renegade Time Lord known as "The Master" is one of the most disruptive forces in the whole time-space continuum. It is now believed that the real goal of all the Master's schemes and operations is to take supreme power in the universe by altering the face of history.

The enclosed data entries and reports provide operatives and interested or affected parties new and detailed information on the Master's activities, abilities, characteristics, accomplices and special foes, preferred equipment, and possible locations for future operations.

Plot

Upon learning that the report the Doctor had filed of the Tremas Master's death on Sarn was inaccurate and the infamous renegade has in fact escaped, Lady Rowellanuraven, a Coordinator of the Celestial Intervention Agency, takes it upon herself to gather biodata file extracts and other reports pertaining to the Master and mails them to the TARDISes of all currently active CIA agents, threatening them with termination of CIA employment if they do not immediately update their TARDIS data banks with this new information.

The files add up to a partially speculative history of the Master from his early days on Gallifrey to his recent apparent death on Sarn. Although by and large accurate, the biography tends to downplay the threat of the Master. This prompts an unstable agent, Melistar, to attempt to add a much more alarming message to the file, which the CIA try to suppress, insisting that Melistar is not of sound mind.

Characters

Worldbuilding

The Doctor

  • In their early years on Gallifrey, the Doctor and the Master were both interventionists, although the Doctor found the Master's theories excessive.

Notes

Continuity

v • e
The Master stories
Early life
Television
Prose
Comic
Audio
Webcast
"Inventor"
Audio
War Chief
Television
Prose
UNIT era
The cycle
ending
Decayed
Master
Tremas
Master
Old
Master
Television
Prose
Bruce
Master
Android/
Echo
Webcast
Prose
"Preacher"
Comics
Reborn
Master
"Merlin"
Prose
Pryce
Television
Child
Master
Comics
War Master
Saxon Master
Missy
The Lumiat
Audio
Spy Master
Unclear
incarnation

Prose
.
Other
realities
Barusa's universe
Prose
Unbound Master
Inferno Earth
Prose
The Warrior's universe
Audio
From stories
considered
not part
of the DWU
by this Wiki
"DWM"
Prose
"Battle"
Games
"Exclusive!"
Prose
"DWMS"
Comics
According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.

Divided Loyalties, A Brief History of Time Lords and The Legions of Death feature, or otherwise acknowledge, the War Chief, but in the process contradicted the notion put forward by other stories that he was an incarnation of the Master.

One account suggests that the incarnation portrayed by Roger Delgado may be the same as the one portrayed by Peter Pratt while some others distinguish them.

According to one account, the incarnation portrayed by Gordon Tipple is the one portrayed by Anthony Ainley, while some others state that the Ainley one was already lost by then.

While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological
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