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|name       = The Rani
race= [[Gallifreyan]] ([[Time Lord|Time Lady]]) |
|image      = Rani Redmond.jpg
home planet=[[Gallifrey]] |
|alias       = Professor Baxton, Prisoner Indigo-1-11-3-6-Sigma, Principal C.B. Wainwright
home era= [[Rassilon Era]]|
|species    = Time Lord
appearances= [[The Rani - List of Appearances|Full List of Appearances]] |
|job        = Professor
actor= [[Kate O'Mara]]|}}
|job2        = Principal
|origin      = [[Gallifrey]]
|first cs    = The Rani Elite (audio story)
|appearances = [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Planet of the Rani (audio story)}}
|voice actor = Siobhan Redmond
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Just as amoral as [[First Rani|her previous incarnation]], this iteration of '''[[the Rani]]''' believed that the end always justified the means. Not above making jokes at the expense of others, she held a great disdain and disinterest in [[the Doctor]]'s antics. During this [[incarnation]], the Rani found herself in multiple encounters with an [[Sixth Doctor|earlier incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'', ''[[Planet of the Rani (audio story)|Planet of the Rani]]'') As one who had a great deal of respect for the [[Laws of Time]], this brought about a certain level of anxiety. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'')


'''Ushas''', later known as '''the Rani''', was a renegade [[Time Lord|Time Lady]]. Knowing both of them in youth, she grew into a rival to [[the Master]] and opponent to [[the Doctor]].
== Biography ==
[[File:The Redmond Rani close-up (POTR).jpg|thumb|left|A new Rani. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of the Rani (audio story)|Planet of the Rani]]'')]]
While she masqueraded as Professor Baxton at the [[College of Advanced Galactic Education]] a foremost authority of Moral Philosophy, the Rani once again encountered the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]], despite her expecting the [[Seventh Doctor]] to show up. The Doctor questioned her about her theories in one of her [[lecture]]s. She tested the students and used the tests to find suitability for her experiments. Some of the students she experimented on were [[Lizzo]] and [[Reev]], and she tried to experiment on [[Miklev]]. The students were experts in their fields. She was making a biodigital interface controller. She was using a Sidelian Brain Scanner in her techniques, which was moving memories from one brain to another. The Rani then used Peri in her experiments, due to Miklev being concussed. She also killed her accomplice, the [[Vice Chancellor (The Rani Elite)|Vice Chancellor]]. The real Professor Baxton was used as the overseer of the network of the students' brains. She was using the students' minds in order to calculate the minor events she would need, in order to create the massive events she wanted, in effect reverse engineering [[chaos theory]]. She hated the Doctor calling her Ushas and reminiscing about [[the Deca]]. When the Doctor tricked her she fell down through the floor on the way to her TARDIS. She gloated in her part in the Doctor's next regeneration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'')


==Profile==
She was sent to [[Teccaurora Penitentiary]], a prison for her misdemeanours. 97 years after her imprisonment, she became the governor of the prison. Using the prison as her [[base of operations]], she used the prisoners to power a [[time corridor]] to [[Miasimia Goria]]. She took [[Constance Clarke]] with her and was appalled at the state the planet was in, but was delighted that [[Raj Kahnu]] became a success, the only one of her experiments to work correctly. She showed some emotion when she thought that Kahnu was dead, but was put on trial by her subjects on Miasimia Goria, where the Doctor said he would take her back to [[Gallifrey]]. She pleaded with Kahnu to show some compassion in sentencing her but instead tried to kill him. She escaped in a TARDIS survival pod that her previous incarnation had left there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of the Rani (audio story)|Planet of the Rani]]'')
===Biography===
====Youth====
The Rani was the same age as the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') On [[Gallifrey]], at the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]], she belonged to a clique of six young people who called themselves [[the Deca]]. Apart from [[First Doctor|the Doctor]], her other future enemy [[Koschei]] (later the Master) belonged to this group. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')


:''A past relationship between the Rani and the Doctor was hinted at, but never elaborated upon.''
Following [[Fall of Gallifrey|the end]] of the [[Last Great Time War]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] believed all the [[Time Lord]]s bar himself to be dead, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') and so did not expect to see the Rani again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flatpack (audio story)|Flatpack]]'') Indeed, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] believed that the Rani was "dead", at least according to [[River Song]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bekdel Test (audio story)|The Bekdel Test]]'')


Unlike some other members of the Deca, she did not chose to leave Gallifrey but was exiled from Gallifrey after some of her lab [[mouse|mice]], as a result of an experiment, grew to enormous size and ate the [[Lord President|President]]'s pet [[cat]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'')
== Appearance ==
The Rani wore her hair in shoulder-length ginger curls, and spoke with a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[accent]]. Leaving behind her previous incarnation's penchant for flamboyant clothing, this Rani dressed in period-appropriate clothes based on her location. At the [[College of Advanced Galactic Education|CAGE]], while disguised as Professor Baxton, she wore a black trench coat over an orange shirt patterned with teacups, paired with glittering slingback shoes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'', ''[[Planet of the Rani (audio story)|Planet of The Rani]]'')


===Personality===
== Personality ==
An evil scientific genius whose villainy comes not from the usual variety of lust for power and suchlike, but from a mindset that treats everything (including morality) as secondary to her research; she has been known to enslave entire [[planet]]s in order to have a ready supply of experimental subjects and a place to carry out her experiments uninterrupted. Her major interest is in tinkering with other species' biochemistry.
The Second Rani, much like her predecessor, was a brilliant scientific mind whose villainy was rooted in [[amorality]], [[selfishness]], and an egocentric worldview. While she did not wish to cause harm or see others suffer, she did not care if people were harmed by her actions. Her major interest was in altering the [[biochemistry]] of other species.  


While the Rani certainly does not share the Doctor's fondness for [[Earth]], referring to it as a "miserable planet," it has been the focus of several of her research projects.  When the test subjects on Miasimia Goria, one of the planets she had enslaved, became violently restless and uncontrollable - a side affect of her experiments on them - the Rani visited Earth at various points in its history to extract chemicals from the brains of select [[human]]s. Because the chemicals in question enabled the human brain to rest, and because the absence of these chemicals made her victims as violent and uncontrollable as those from her previous experiments, the Rani purposely chose periods of social unrest to visit, using the violence to conceal her presence and its consequences. The siege of [[Troy]], the [[Dark Ages]], the [[American War for Independence]], and the [[Luddite]] Riots of the early [[19th century]] were just a few of the historical periods she visited, before her work was brought to a halt by the arrival of the Doctor and [[the Master]], after which the Rani became caught up in the rival Time Lords' feud ("[[The Mark of the Rani]]"). The Rani also hoped to use the [[Time Brain]] she was growing on [[Lakertya]] to correct what she considered to be errors in the universal [[timeline]]. Her first target was to be Earth, where she would prevent the extinction of the [[dinosaur]]s, creatures whose full potential she felt had never been truly realised ("[[Time and the Rani]]"). Prior to either of these projects, she had visited Earth in the late [[Cretaceous Period|Cretaceous]] and acquired several [[Tyrannosaur]] embryos.
In meeting the [[the Doctor]] at [[Sixth Doctor|an earlier point]] in his personal timeline, the Rani refused to break the [[Laws of Time]], but she took joy in knowing that even if she lost during this encounter, she would beat him later. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'')


:''The Rani's comments concerning the unrealised full potential of the dinosaurs are curious given the existence of the [[Silurian]] civilisation on the planet at around the same time. She may have been obliquely alluding to averting the fall of the Silurians. Then again, as a biochemist she may simply not have been that familiar with social sciences such as history and just wasn't aware of the Silurians' existence. This seems unlikely, however, given her apparent visits to the Cretaceous to gather specimens.''
The Rani reacted negatively when addressed as "Ushas" by the Doctor, demanding he refrain from calling her by her former name and dismissed his mentions of [[Drax]], [[the Monk|Mortimus]], and [[the Deca]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'')


Towards the end of the Time War, the Doctor's homeworld was destroyed and he later told his companion [[Rose Tyler]] that he was the last of the Time Lords. Whether the Rani was present on [[Gallifrey]] and was killed along with the rest is uncertain.
== Behind the scenes ==
* Plans were underway to bring back Kate O'Mara as the Rani for new [[Big Finish Productions]] audios, but O'Mara passed away a few weeks before recording. Upon being assured by O'Mara's agent that she'd wished them to continue the project without her, Big Finish cast [[Siobhan Redmond]] as a new incarnation of the Rani.<ref>http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-new-rani</ref>
* Redmond had never seen ''Doctor Who'' prior to being cast as the Rani, though she familiarised herself with O'Mara's work in the role. Before her in-character photoshoot as the new Rani, she curled her hair as a small homage to O'Mara. ([[VOR 70]])
* Redmond's portrayal of the Rani with her own native [[Scottish accent]], closely following as it did the premieres of the first Scottish-accented [[Missy|Master]] and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] on televised ''[[Doctor Who]]'', led ''[[Vortex (magazine)|Vortex]]'' to comment "Scottish Time Lords are like buses. You wait ages for one to appear, and then suddenly you get three at once!" ([[VOR 70]])


== The Expanded Universe ==
== Footnotes ==
The Rani once tried to ensnare the first seven incarnations of the Doctor in a temporal trap, hoping to add one of his [[companion]]s to a menagerie of creatures with which she hoped to gain access to and control of every individual mind in the [[universe]] ("[[Dimensions in Time]]"). She was also trapped along with the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri]] in the [[alternate Earth]] of [[Terra Nova]] that had been created by the entity known as [[Iam]]. She tried and failed to manipulate the political situation existing between the three children of that reality's version of [[Cleopatra]] ("[[State of Change]]"). After being betrayed and imprisoned by her own servants, the [[Tetrap]]s, the Rani achieved her escape with the help of the very persons upon whom the Tetraps instructed her to experiment ("[[The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind]]").
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Just as amoral as her previous incarnation, this iteration of the Rani believed that the end always justified the means. Not above making jokes at the expense of others, she held a great disdain and disinterest in the Doctor's antics. During this incarnation, the Rani found herself in multiple encounters with an earlier incarnation of the Doctor. (AUDIO: The Rani Elite, Planet of the Rani) As one who had a great deal of respect for the Laws of Time, this brought about a certain level of anxiety. (AUDIO: The Rani Elite)

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

A new Rani. (AUDIO: Planet of the Rani)

While she masqueraded as Professor Baxton at the College of Advanced Galactic Education a foremost authority of Moral Philosophy, the Rani once again encountered the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown, despite her expecting the Seventh Doctor to show up. The Doctor questioned her about her theories in one of her lectures. She tested the students and used the tests to find suitability for her experiments. Some of the students she experimented on were Lizzo and Reev, and she tried to experiment on Miklev. The students were experts in their fields. She was making a biodigital interface controller. She was using a Sidelian Brain Scanner in her techniques, which was moving memories from one brain to another. The Rani then used Peri in her experiments, due to Miklev being concussed. She also killed her accomplice, the Vice Chancellor. The real Professor Baxton was used as the overseer of the network of the students' brains. She was using the students' minds in order to calculate the minor events she would need, in order to create the massive events she wanted, in effect reverse engineering chaos theory. She hated the Doctor calling her Ushas and reminiscing about the Deca. When the Doctor tricked her she fell down through the floor on the way to her TARDIS. She gloated in her part in the Doctor's next regeneration. (AUDIO: The Rani Elite)

She was sent to Teccaurora Penitentiary, a prison for her misdemeanours. 97 years after her imprisonment, she became the governor of the prison. Using the prison as her base of operations, she used the prisoners to power a time corridor to Miasimia Goria. She took Constance Clarke with her and was appalled at the state the planet was in, but was delighted that Raj Kahnu became a success, the only one of her experiments to work correctly. She showed some emotion when she thought that Kahnu was dead, but was put on trial by her subjects on Miasimia Goria, where the Doctor said he would take her back to Gallifrey. She pleaded with Kahnu to show some compassion in sentencing her but instead tried to kill him. She escaped in a TARDIS survival pod that her previous incarnation had left there. (AUDIO: Planet of the Rani)

Following the end of the Last Great Time War, the Ninth Doctor believed all the Time Lords bar himself to be dead, (TV: Dalek) and so did not expect to see the Rani again. (AUDIO: Flatpack) Indeed, the Eleventh Doctor believed that the Rani was "dead", at least according to River Song. (AUDIO: The Bekdel Test)

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Rani wore her hair in shoulder-length ginger curls, and spoke with a Scottish accent. Leaving behind her previous incarnation's penchant for flamboyant clothing, this Rani dressed in period-appropriate clothes based on her location. At the CAGE, while disguised as Professor Baxton, she wore a black trench coat over an orange shirt patterned with teacups, paired with glittering slingback shoes. (AUDIO: The Rani Elite, Planet of The Rani)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Second Rani, much like her predecessor, was a brilliant scientific mind whose villainy was rooted in amorality, selfishness, and an egocentric worldview. While she did not wish to cause harm or see others suffer, she did not care if people were harmed by her actions. Her major interest was in altering the biochemistry of other species.

In meeting the the Doctor at an earlier point in his personal timeline, the Rani refused to break the Laws of Time, but she took joy in knowing that even if she lost during this encounter, she would beat him later. (AUDIO: The Rani Elite)

The Rani reacted negatively when addressed as "Ushas" by the Doctor, demanding he refrain from calling her by her former name and dismissed his mentions of Drax, Mortimus, and the Deca. (AUDIO: The Rani Elite)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Plans were underway to bring back Kate O'Mara as the Rani for new Big Finish Productions audios, but O'Mara passed away a few weeks before recording. Upon being assured by O'Mara's agent that she'd wished them to continue the project without her, Big Finish cast Siobhan Redmond as a new incarnation of the Rani.[1]
  • Redmond had never seen Doctor Who prior to being cast as the Rani, though she familiarised herself with O'Mara's work in the role. Before her in-character photoshoot as the new Rani, she curled her hair as a small homage to O'Mara. (VOR 70)
  • Redmond's portrayal of the Rani with her own native Scottish accent, closely following as it did the premieres of the first Scottish-accented Master and the Twelfth Doctor on televised Doctor Who, led Vortex to comment "Scottish Time Lords are like buses. You wait ages for one to appear, and then suddenly you get three at once!" (VOR 70)

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-new-rani
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