[[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]]'')
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'''Drax''' was a [[renegade Time Lord]] with a knack for tinkering and engineering. He knew [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] before either had left their home [[planet]] of [[Gallifrey]].
== 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 the [[Prydonian Academy]] with [[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]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]''). Whilst he was at the academy, Drax became a member of [[the Deca]] and had his own self-made [[skimmer]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|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.
Drax had already escaped from Gallifrey when the Doctor was expelled from the [[Time Lord Academy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') Upon becoming a renegade, Drax travelled the [[universe]], doing repair and maintenance work in the fields of [[cybernetics]], guidance systems and armaments. He also committed cons. 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.
450 years later in their personal timelines, Drax, then in his second incarnation, and the Doctor met again. While searching for the last segment of the [[Key to Time]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I]] arrived on Zeos. Drax, under the Shadow's orders, reluctantly led the Doctor into a trap. Drax claimed he hadn't expected the one looking for the Key to be the Doctor. Briefly the two reminisced though at first the Doctor needed a moment to remember him. 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') During that time Drax had hacked the directional unit of the Doctor's TARDIS.
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]]'')
Later, after he had regenerated, the Third Drax gained the map to [[Altrazar]]. The Fourth Doctor was later used as a fall guy in a con involving the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth incarnation of Drax, who used a [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter|limiter]]. The fifth Drax was using the identity "Galdron Cabot" (a criminal-turned-businessman), the eighth - "Fleur McCormick" (galactic police officer, the only female incarnation of Drax), the twelfth - "Charles Kirkland" (businessman and Cabot's rival), and the ninth - "Rosser" (Kirkland's butler). The fourth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth incarnations were McCormick's "half a dozen best men". The Doctor was conned into stealing the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter]], which was what allowed so many Draxes to successfully cooperate on this scheme in the first place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')
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== Alternative timeline ==
In an [[alternate timeline]] Drax cooperated alongside [[the Master]], [[the Monk]], and [[the Rani]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a [[gestalt]] [[consciousness]] which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
== Personality ==
Drax showed great technological aptitude. However, he could not grasp [[temporal theory]] and failed the class. While Drax could not grasp temporal theory, he had worked out enough about the Blinovitch Limitation effect limiter to know its limitations and also to create an endless paradox from his third incarnations onwards to his thirteenth to possess the device and also commit numerous crimes with two or more of his future lives.
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. This cockney accent would last for a few regenerations, but by the twelfth would be gone. When Drax met [[K9 Mark II]] and marvelled at the "little tin dog", K9 noted 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
Despite some differences, the incarnations of Drax seemed more amiable to one another compared to cases whenever the Doctors met.
== Behind the scenes ==
* 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, and described his TARDIS as taking the shape of a convertible [[car]], the registration plate of which read: "TARDIS".
* Lawrence Miles intended for the character [[Qixotl]] in ''[[Alien Bodies]]'' to be Drax.
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)
