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{{Infobox Individual
|name= Straxus
|image        = <gallery>
|image= Straxus1.jpg
StraxusLightAtTheEnd.jpg|A
|alias= Lord Straxus<br />Kotris<br />X
Straxus (The Great War).jpg|B
|species= Time Lord
Straxus (X and the Daleks).jpg|C
|origin= [[Gallifrey]]
</gallery>
|first= Human Resources
|alias            = [[Kotris]], X
|appearances= [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]''<br />[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sisters of the Flame (audio story)|Sisters of the Flame]]''<br />[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)|The Vengeance of Morbius]]''<br />[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)|The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel]]''<br />[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]''<br />[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]''<br />[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tangled Web (audio story)|Tangled Web]]''<br />[[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]''<br />[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]''
|species           = Time Lord
|voice actor= Nickolas Grace
|job              = Coordinator
|other voice actor = [[Peter Miles]]<br />[[Peter Egan]]<br />[[Nigel Fairs]]<br />[[Oliver Hume]]<br />[[Toby Jones]]
|affiliation      = Celestial Intervention Agency
}}
|origin            = [[Gallifrey]]
'''Straxus''' was a [[Time Lord]] who worked for the [[High Council]] of [[Gallifrey]].
|first            = Human Resources (audio story)
|appearances      = [[Straxus - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|voice actor       = Peter Egan
|other voice actor = [[Nickolas Grace]], [[Peter Miles]], [[Oliver Hume]], [[Toby Jones]]
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'''Straxus''' was a [[Time Lord]] who acted as an agent for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and [[High Council]].
 
== Biography ==
== Biography ==
[[File:Straxus_light_at_the_end.JPG|thumb|left|Straxus, working for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')]]Straxus once worked for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]. Unbeknownst to the [[High Council]], he was instructed to gather from the [[Vess]] weapons that would allow the Time Lords to defend themselves and defeat races that posed a threat to Gallifrey. He was discovered by [[the Master]], who blackmailed him and the CIA to by threatening to inform the High Council. In exchange of his silence, Straxus let him buy a [[conceptual bomb]] from the Vess. The Master used the device to attack the Doctor's timeline, thus threatening the whole universe. Straxus then captured the [[Sixth Doctor]] to ask for his help in defeating the Master and, eventually, regretted his own behaviour and meant to report to the High Council. In this situation, his own TARDIS was sacrificed and destroyed by the [[Sixth Doctor]] by forcing and expanding its dimensional stabilisation field, in order to let other three incarnations of the Doctor to land in the pocket dimension of the Vess at the same time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
=== Incarnations of Straxus ===
Straxus once worked for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') In [[Straxus (The Threshold)|one incarnation]] working for the CIA, he attempted to use a [[time ram]] to force [[the Master's TARDIS]] out of the [[Time Vortex]] to erase him from existence, only for {{Delgado}} to survive and shoot Straxus. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Threshold (audio story)|The Threshold]]'')  


In a different body, Straxus was sent by the [[High Council]] to the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|Doctor's TARDIS]]. He ordered the [[Eighth Doctor]] to [[Lonsis]] in [[2006]] to retrieve [[Lucie Miller]] from a temporal blackspot. The Doctor agreed on condition that Straxus fix his TARDIS. Straxus agreed and gave the Doctor a [[time ring]] for his mission.
In [[Straxus (The Light at the End)|another incarnation]] Straxus oversaw the Time Lord delegation at the [[Vess]] weapons factory and was forced to bargain with {{Pratt}} after the renegade discovered the operation. He reluctantly aided the [[Sixth Doctor]] in stopping the Master's scheme to use a [[conceptual bomb]] to erase the Doctor's travels. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')


On the Doctor's return from his mission, Straxus told the Doctor why Lucie was originally taken out of her own time and sent to the Doctor. Straxus then helped the Doctor defeat the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] on Lonsis before returning to [[Gallifrey]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'')
During the [[War in Heaven]], [[Straxus (The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel)|Straxus' future self]] was stranded on [[Earth]] in [[1888]] after [[Straxus' Time Ring|his Time Ring]] failed during a mission. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)|The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel]]'')


Straxus was later sent by the [[Time Lord]]s to take the Doctor back to Gallifrey, where he was to be quarantined with the rest of the Time Lords in order to prevent the resurrection of [[Morbius]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sisters of the Flame (audio story)|Sisters of the Flame]]'') Straxus failed to find the Doctor in time and instead was captured by [[Cristophe Zarodnix]] and was forced to surrender his DNA in order to resurrect [[Morbius]]. Straxus was imprisoned for ten years while Morbius fed of Straxus' life energy whenever he became weak. The Doctor and Lucie came for Straxus and the Doctor sacrificed his life to save the universe from Morbius. Straxus' life energy was restored after the Time Lords corrected history. Straxus was taken back to [[Karn]], where he offered to take Lucie home to Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)|The Vengeance of Morbius]]'')
In a [[Straxus (Human Resources)|new incarnation]] Straxus worked for the High Council. He ordered the [[Eighth Doctor]] to [[Lonsis]] in [[2006]] to retrieve [[Lucie Miller]] from a temporal blackspot and subsequently discovered the witness protection scheme she'd been a part of had been botched, which Straxus blamed on the CIA. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'')


In another incarnation, Straxus was sent on a mission for the Time Lords to [[London]] in [[1893]]. He became trapped there and decided to place ancient historical treasures in a market place where they were never meant to be. By doing this he would reshape human history, which would in turn inform the Time Lords as to which time period he was trapped in. During this time, an attempt was made on his life by [[Septimus]], one of his [[Cwejen]] [[clone]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)|The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel]]'')
Another incarnation of [[Straxus (The Great War)|Straxus]] became aware of the scheme of his future self and the [[Dalek Time Controller]] to use [[retro-genitor particle]]s against the Time Lords and sought to exploit it to erase the Daleks instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'') With the agreement of [[Lord President (The Great War)|the Lord President]], he embroiled the Eighth Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'') instructing him to look after [[Molly O'Sullivan]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'') Straxus was killed by the Time Controller before his plan could succeed, erasing his future self in the process. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'')


Following another regeneration, Straxus was ordered by the [[Lord President]] of Gallifrey to send the Doctor to [[France]] during [[World War I]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'')
In a timeline which was eventually unwritten, Straxus worked with the [[Dalek]]s and changed his name to [[Kotris]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'', ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'', ''[[Tangled Web (audio story)|Tangled Web]]'') He planned to erase the Time Lords but came into conflict with his younger self, eventually resulting in his younger self's premature extermination which erased Kotris from existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'')
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Straxus later saved the Doctor and his new companion [[Molly O'Sullivan]] from a group of Daleks. His TARDIS was attacked by the Daleks and he escaped back to Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tangled Web (audio story)|Tangled Web]]'')
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In his next incarnation, Straxus became sick of the acts that the Time Lords had commited. He was found by the [[Dalek time controller]], who had his DNA altered and he became known as Kotris. Kotris spent centuries on the planet [[Srangor]] helping the Daleks create a [[Temporal Chamber]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'') Knowing that his future self would become an enemy of the Time Lords, the younger Straxus attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself off a mountain on Srangor but was prevented from doing so by a [[temporal drone]] sent by Kotris. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'', ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'') Kotris was erased from history when his earlier self, seeing what he would become, was exterminated by the Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* On the [[12 July (production)|12 July]] [[2011 (production)|2011]] edition of ''[[The Big Finish Podcast]]'', [[Nicholas Briggs]] revealed that the original actor hired to play Straxus had to be fired. When the original actor proved unsuitable for the role, Briggs quickly called someone he knew — [[Nickolas Grace]] — to take over. The crew became so enamoured of his performance on [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'' that they wrote Straxus into ''[[The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)|The Vengeance of Morbius]]''. Briggs went on to mention that this was the only time in Big Finish's ''Doctor Who'' production where an actor had to be fired for performance deficiencies. It's unclear whether Briggs was exaggerating, but it is probably fair to say that such dismissals are at least highly unusual at Big Finish.
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Latest revision as of 01:05, 11 October 2024

Straxus was a Time Lord who acted as an agent for the Celestial Intervention Agency and High Council.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Incarnations of Straxus[[edit] | [edit source]]

Straxus once worked for the Celestial Intervention Agency. (AUDIO: The Light at the End) In one incarnation working for the CIA, he attempted to use a time ram to force the Master's TARDIS out of the Time Vortex to erase him from existence, only for the Master to survive and shoot Straxus. (AUDIO: The Threshold)

In another incarnation Straxus oversaw the Time Lord delegation at the Vess weapons factory and was forced to bargain with the Decayed Master after the renegade discovered the operation. He reluctantly aided the Sixth Doctor in stopping the Master's scheme to use a conceptual bomb to erase the Doctor's travels. (AUDIO: The Light at the End)

During the War in Heaven, Straxus' future self was stranded on Earth in 1888 after his Time Ring failed during a mission. (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel)

In a new incarnation Straxus worked for the High Council. He ordered the Eighth Doctor to Lonsis in 2006 to retrieve Lucie Miller from a temporal blackspot and subsequently discovered the witness protection scheme she'd been a part of had been botched, which Straxus blamed on the CIA. (AUDIO: Human Resources)

Another incarnation of Straxus became aware of the scheme of his future self and the Dalek Time Controller to use retro-genitor particles against the Time Lords and sought to exploit it to erase the Daleks instead. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks) With the agreement of the Lord President, he embroiled the Eighth Doctor, (AUDIO: The Great War) instructing him to look after Molly O'Sullivan. (AUDIO: Fugitives) Straxus was killed by the Time Controller before his plan could succeed, erasing his future self in the process. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks)

In a timeline which was eventually unwritten, Straxus worked with the Daleks and changed his name to Kotris. (AUDIO: The Great War, Fugitives, Tangled Web) He planned to erase the Time Lords but came into conflict with his younger self, eventually resulting in his younger self's premature extermination which erased Kotris from existence. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks)

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