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{{Infobox Individual
{{Infobox Individual
|image = Drax 2.jpg
|image             = Fifth Drax.jpg
|individual name = Drax
|aka              = Rosser
|species = Time Lord|
|species           = Time Lord
|origin = [[Gallifrey]]
|origin           = [[Gallifrey]]
|appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'', ''[[Search for the Doctor]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''
|only              = The Trouble with Drax (audio story)
 
|voice actor      = John Challis
|actor = Barry Jackson}}
|job = Butler
 
}}{{Draxes}}
'''Drax''' was a [[renegade Time Lord]] with a knack for tinkering. He knew [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] before either had left their home [[planet]] of [[Gallifrey]].
[[Drax]]'s '''fifth incarnation''' posed as '''Rosser''', the butler of his [[Twelfth Drax|twelfth incarnation]] during a plot hatched by [[Third Drax|a previous incarnation]] of his. With the unwitting help of the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II]], they raided the most secure safe-house in history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Youth ===
After the [[Third Drax]] gained the map to [[Altrazar]], he and "Rosser" went to the city with the [[Fourth Doctor]] in order to retrieve an [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter|item]]. On the city, the Doctor discovered Rosser's real identity, but, by then he and his previous incarnation had already ran away with the item, using [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to get to a rocket.
Drax attended [[Prydon Academy]] with the the [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] in the [[Class of 92]]. They took the tech course together. Though his practical work was satisfactory, he failed his exams, done in by [[Temporal Theory]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') Drax and the Doctor belonged to [[the Deca]], a social group of rebellious students at Prydon Academy. Drax and [[the Monk]] became the first two members of the Deca to permanently flee Gallifrey and turn [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')


=== As a Renegade ===
In the rocket, the Draxes realised they were being chased by [[Ninth Drax|Galdron Cabot]], the rival of [[Twelfth Drax|"Rosser"'s boss]]. From the ship she was stationed on, [[Romana II]] was able to communicate  with both the Draxes and Cabot, and soon realised that they too were incarnations of the Time Lord.
Upon going renegade, Drax travelled the [[universe]], doing repair and maintenance work in the fields of [[cybernetics]], guidance systems and armaments. When Drax's [[TARDIS]] suffered a breakdown in its [[hyperbolics]], Drax was stranded on [[Earth]]. He engaged in criminal activity to procure replacement parts and did time in [[Brixton]] prison.


Later, the [[Black Guardian]]'s agent, [[the Shadow]], imprisoned Drax and forced him to build and maintain a giant [[computer]] called [[Mentalis]] on the deserted [[planet]] [[Zeos]]. Mentalis carried out a war against the neighbouring planet of [[Atrios]].
Upon discovering this, the Doctor and Romana became aware they got involved in a con that involved several of Drax's future incarnations, who needed the Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter to avoid temporal catastrophe. Needing a fall guy, they conned the Doctor into stealing the limiter, which was what allowed his future incarnations to successfully cooperate on this scheme and others in the first place.


Four hundred and fifty years later in their personal timelines, Drax and the Doctor met again. While searching for the last segment of the [[Key to Time]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I|Romana]] arrived on Zeos. Drax, under the Shadow's orders, reluctantly led the Doctor into a trap. Easily seeing through Drax's pretence, the Doctor talked him into joining forces against the Shadow. With Drax's assistance, the Doctor recovered [[Astra of Atrios|the final segment of the Key to Time]]. Afterward, Drax stayed on Atrios to help rebuild that world. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
The Doctor and Romana met the four Draxes in the ''[[Rutan's Tendril]]'', and called [[Eighth Drax|Inspector Fleur McCormick]] to arrest them. However, by the time they realised that Drax must have known he would have been arrested over different incarnations, they realised the truth about McCormick and her men, and by the time they returned all of Drax's incarnations had escaped in [[Drax's TARDIS|their TARDIS]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')


== Personality ==
[[Category:Renegade Time Lords]]
Drax showed extreme technological aptitude. As a youth on Gallifrey, Drax had a [[skimmer]] he had built himself. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') However, Drax found himself unable to grasp [[temporal theory]], and he failed the class. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
[[Category:Time Lords who have been inside the Doctor's TARDIS]]
 
During his prison stay Drax picked up Brixton's local accent and idioms, which remained part of his speech patterns after he left Earth and resumed his travels. When Drax met [[K9 Mark II]] and marvelled at the "little tin dog", K9 made note of Drax's silliness. Although Drax was not above criminal activity and weapons dealing for personal gain, he displayed a sense of what was morally right and bemoaned having to assist the Shadow in his schemes. The Doctor talked him round to joining him against the Shadow without much trouble. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* Drax was [[Barry Jackson]]'s third guest role in ''[[Doctor Who]],'' after [[Ascaris]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Romans]]'') and [[Jeff Garvey]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'').
 
* The exchange between the Doctor and Drax regarding his accent in ''The Armageddon Factor'' would be echoed decades later in a similar exchange between [[Rose Tyler]] and the [[Ninth Doctor]] in ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''.
 
* Although Drax's TARDIS is somewhere around in ''The Armageddon Factor'', only components from it are seen on-screen. The interactive ''[[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who]]'' book ''[[Search for the Doctor]]'' included Drax as a character, in which his TARDIS was in the shape of a convertible [[car]], the registration plate of which read '''TARDIS'''.


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Latest revision as of 16:48, 5 October 2024

Drax's fifth incarnation posed as Rosser, the butler of his twelfth incarnation during a plot hatched by a previous incarnation of his. With the unwitting help of the Fourth Doctor and Romana II, they raided the most secure safe-house in history. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

After the Third Drax gained the map to Altrazar, he and "Rosser" went to the city with the Fourth Doctor in order to retrieve an item. On the city, the Doctor discovered Rosser's real identity, but, by then he and his previous incarnation had already ran away with the item, using the Doctor's TARDIS to get to a rocket.

In the rocket, the Draxes realised they were being chased by Galdron Cabot, the rival of "Rosser"'s boss. From the ship she was stationed on, Romana II was able to communicate with both the Draxes and Cabot, and soon realised that they too were incarnations of the Time Lord.

Upon discovering this, the Doctor and Romana became aware they got involved in a con that involved several of Drax's future incarnations, who needed the Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter to avoid temporal catastrophe. Needing a fall guy, they conned the Doctor into stealing the limiter, which was what allowed his future incarnations to successfully cooperate on this scheme and others in the first place.

The Doctor and Romana met the four Draxes in the Rutan's Tendril, and called Inspector Fleur McCormick to arrest them. However, by the time they realised that Drax must have known he would have been arrested over different incarnations, they realised the truth about McCormick and her men, and by the time they returned all of Drax's incarnations had escaped in their TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

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