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[[Commander]] '''Brak''', ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) later code-named "[[Field Marshal]] '''[[Bios]]'''", ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Fog (home video)}}) was a [[Sontaran]] soldier who, having crashed on [[Earth]] in [[1916]], went on to become the longest-lived Sontaran in recorded history, living for over a century in total. | [[Commander]] '''Brak''', ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) later code-named "[[Field Marshal]] '''[[Bios]]'''", ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Fog (home video)}}) was a [[Sontaran]] soldier who, having crashed on [[Earth]] in [[1916]], went on to become the longest-lived Sontaran in recorded history, living for over a century in total. | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Crashing into World War I === | === Crashing into World War I === | ||
Brak was originally the [[pilot]] of a one-man craft within [[General]] [[Dakaal]]'s Sontaran fleet. His wing was assigned to bomb [[Satellite Neutreet]], a long-standing outpost opposed to the Sontarans, as a detour on the way to a larger, unrelated battle. During the operation, something went wrong and blew Brak's ship out of the fleet and into the inner part of the [[sol system|solar system]]; he crashed on [[Earth]], in the midst of the [[1916]], [[Battle of the Somme]]. Overwhelmed by the fighting he could not understand, he was captured by [[human]]s and held as a prisoner. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | Brak was originally the [[pilot]] of a one-man craft within [[General]] [[Dakaal]]'s Sontaran fleet. His wing was assigned to bomb [[Satellite Neutreet]], a long-standing outpost opposed to the Sontarans, as a detour on the way to a larger, unrelated battle. During the operation, something went wrong and blew Brak's ship out of the fleet and into the inner part of the [[sol system|solar system]]; he crashed on [[Earth]], in the midst of the [[1916]], [[Battle of the Somme]]. Overwhelmed by the fighting he could not understand, he was captured by [[human]]s and held as a prisoner. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | ||
=== Twenty years of apathy === | === Twenty years of apathy === | ||
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=== Survival into the 21st century === | === Survival into the 21st century === | ||
Brak was unable to speak at the conference, and [[Captain]] [[Alice Wells]] understood him to be dead, recording a mournful report on his death which turned into something of a eulogy and meditation on Brak. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | Brak was unable to speak at the conference, and [[Captain]] [[Alice Wells]] understood him to be dead, recording a mournful report on his death which turned into something of a eulogy and meditation on Brak. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | ||
However, he was actually kept alive on [[life support]], and brought back to his safehouse with increased security; his name was no longer spoken even in secret documentation, with him being referred to as "[[Field Marshal]] [[Bios]]", named after a post-WWII British program similar to the Americans' [[Operation Paperclip]] and of which the prisoner, as a "foreign" "expert" originally recovered from German custody, could be considered an unusual example. | However, he was actually kept alive on [[life support]], and brought back to his safehouse with increased security; his name was no longer spoken even in secret documentation, with him being referred to as "[[Field Marshal]] [[Bios]]", named after a post-WWII British program similar to the Americans' [[Operation Paperclip]] and of which the prisoner, as a "foreign" "expert" originally recovered from German custody, could be considered an unusual example. | ||
More dependent on the humans' goodwill than ever, he resumed sharing advanced technology with them, now playing with [[electromagnetism]]; the directions he provided were crucial to many technical innovations of the [[21st century]], such as [[5G]] phone signals. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | More dependent on the humans' goodwill than ever, he resumed sharing advanced technology with them, now playing with [[electromagnetism]]; the directions he provided were crucial to many technical innovations of the [[21st century]], such as [[5G]] phone signals. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | ||
=== Death in 2021 === | === Death in 2021 === | ||
Due to his disgrace and dependence on humans, Brak had become downright suicidal. Hoping to attract attention, he planted a hidden signal within one of his creations which caused a mysterious [[fog]] to fall upon the [[United Kingdom]] starting in mid-[[February]] [[2021]], caused multiple phone blackouts, and also caused random bouts of [[amnesia]] among members of the public. He eventually managed to catch the attention of, and contact, [[P.R.O.B.E. director]] [[Giles]], giving him the coordinates of his safehouse. After some difficulties, Giles was given clearance to enter the house and meet with "Bios", though he was unable to put any footage of him, or even his real name, within the [[video diary|video]] [[case file]] he recorded. "Bios" was interested in Giles's work, and particularly in the presence of an alien, [[Maxie Masters|Maxie]], on his team, as a free woman and equal to the humans rather than a prisoner to be used. | Due to his disgrace and dependence on humans, Brak had become downright suicidal. Hoping to attract attention, he planted a hidden signal within one of his creations which caused a mysterious [[fog]] to fall upon the [[United Kingdom]] starting in mid-[[February]] [[2021]], caused multiple phone blackouts, and also caused random bouts of [[amnesia]] among members of the public. He eventually managed to catch the attention of, and contact, [[P.R.O.B.E. director]] [[Giles]], giving him the coordinates of his safehouse. After some difficulties, Giles was given clearance to enter the house and meet with "Bios", though he was unable to put any footage of him, or even his real name, within the [[video diary|video]] [[case file]] he recorded. "Bios" was interested in Giles's work, and particularly in the presence of an alien, [[Maxie Masters|Maxie]], on his team, as a free woman and equal to the humans rather than a prisoner to be used. | ||
Giles made several repeat visits to the Field Marshal after that first encounter. Communicating back and forth with Maxie through an oblivious Giles, Brak was able to get it across to his fellow nonhuman that he was looking for a deniable way to commit [[suicide]] that would evade the understanding of his guards. He eventually asked Giles to buy him a simple [[human]] [[burger]], a request Maxie helped Giles fulfill, being aware — unlike Giles and the guards — that some ingredients within the fast-food item would prove lethally poisonous for Brak. He expired soon after being given this last meal by Giles, and Giles quickly realised that Maxie had expected this to happen. Although resentful of having been used without his consent, Giles understood and respected Maxie's actions. He later observed a few aftershocks of the amnesia-causing fogs, being bitterly amused that one of the only things Brak had left the world to remember him by was fields that caused people to forget things. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | Giles made several repeat visits to the Field Marshal after that first encounter. Communicating back and forth with Maxie through an oblivious Giles, Brak was able to get it across to his fellow nonhuman that he was looking for a deniable way to commit [[suicide]] that would evade the understanding of his guards. He eventually asked Giles to buy him a simple [[human]] [[burger]], a request Maxie helped Giles fulfill, being aware — unlike Giles and the guards — that some ingredients within the fast-food item would prove lethally poisonous for Brak. He expired soon after being given this last meal by Giles, and Giles quickly realised that Maxie had expected this to happen. Although resentful of having been used without his consent, Giles understood and respected Maxie's actions. He later observed a few aftershocks of the amnesia-causing fogs, being bitterly amused that one of the only things Brak had left the world to remember him by was fields that caused people to forget things. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | ||