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{{Infobox Individual
{{Infobox Individual
|name= Straxus
|image       = Straxus (The Great War).jpg
|image= Straxus (X and the Daleks).jpg
|species    = Time Lord
|alias= Lord Straxus<br />Kotris<br>X
|job        = Coordinator
|species= Time Lord|
|affiliation = Celestial Intervention Agency
|origin= [[Gallifrey]]  
|origin     = [[Gallifrey]]
|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]]''
|first      = The Great War (audio story)
|voice actor= [[Nickolas Grace]]<br />[[Peter Miles]]<br>[[Peter Egan]]<br>[[Toby Jones]]
|appearances = [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'', ''[[Tangled Web (audio story)|Tangled Web]]'', ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]''
}}
|voice actor = Peter Egan
'''Straxus''' was a [[Time Lord]] who worked for the [[High Council]] of [[Gallifrey]].
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'''Straxus''' was a Time Lord agent turned [[Coordinator]] of the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] at the time of the [[Kotris]] crisis.
 
== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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.
At some point after [[Regeneration|regenerating]], though retaining his "supercilious smile", Straxus became Coordinator of the CIA. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') Straxus was instructed by the [[Lord President (The Great War)|Lord President]] of [[Gallifrey]] to send the [[Eighth Doctor]] to [[France]] during [[World War I]] to protect [[Molly O'Sullivan]]. Finding the Doctor trying to travel to the end of the universe, which Straxus noted was forbidden to Time Lords, he had to talk the emotionally bereft Doctor down. When the Doctor admitted that he was looking for hope, Straxus sold his mission for the Doctor as a chance for him to see some hope. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
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 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]]'')
 
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]]'')


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]]'')  
Fully aware that a later incarnation of his was working with the Daleks against the Time Lords, Straxus travelled to [[Srangor]], where regeneration had been rendered impossible, to kill himself before he had the chance to regenerate.  ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'', ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'') After arriving, Straxus asked a [[Srangor herder|local herder]] to kill him, and when he refused, Straxus chose to jump off a mountain. However, he was saved by Kotris's drone, and any further attempt to kill himself that he made was prevented by the drone, forcing Straxus to abandon his plan. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'')


In his next incarnation, Straxus' DNA was altered by the Daleks and he became known as Kotris. Kotris spent centuries on the planet [[Srangor]] helping the Daleks create a temporal chamber. 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]]'')
Reporting to the President, Straxus confirmed that Kotris was acting as they expected, and that his temporal drone was following him. However, he noted that the Doctor had disappeared, and the President ordered him to find the Doctor by any means necessary. Predicting what Kotris would do, Straxus and his assistant Sandun managed to rescue the Doctor and Molly from a group of [[Dalek]]s. Straxus briefed the Doctor on Kotris, revealing him as a genetically altered Time Lord, but not revealing his identity, simply referring to him as X.


== Behind the scenes ==
[[The Doctor's TARDIS|His TARDIS]] was attacked by the Daleks, and he programmed the Doctor's TARDIS with the coordinates to Srangor, seemingly sacrificing himself and his TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tangled Web (audio story)|Tangled Web]]'') However, this was an illusion created for the Doctor's benefit, and he escaped back to Gallifrey. Straxus modified the retro-genitor particles implanted in Molly to target the Daleks instead of the Time Lords, but in a confrontation with Kotris and the Dalek Time Controller, the Time Controller killed him. This meant he could never become Kotris, and the scheme was entirely undone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'')
On the [[12 July]] [[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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Straxus was a Time Lord agent turned Coordinator of the Celestial Intervention Agency at the time of the Kotris crisis.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

At some point after regenerating, though retaining his "supercilious smile", Straxus became Coordinator of the CIA. (AUDIO: The Great War, The Death of Hope) Straxus was instructed by the Lord President of Gallifrey to send the Eighth Doctor to France during World War I to protect Molly O'Sullivan. Finding the Doctor trying to travel to the end of the universe, which Straxus noted was forbidden to Time Lords, he had to talk the emotionally bereft Doctor down. When the Doctor admitted that he was looking for hope, Straxus sold his mission for the Doctor as a chance for him to see some hope. (AUDIO: The Great War)

Fully aware that a later incarnation of his was working with the Daleks against the Time Lords, Straxus travelled to Srangor, where regeneration had been rendered impossible, to kill himself before he had the chance to regenerate. (AUDIO: Fugitives, X and the Daleks) After arriving, Straxus asked a local herder to kill him, and when he refused, Straxus chose to jump off a mountain. However, he was saved by Kotris's drone, and any further attempt to kill himself that he made was prevented by the drone, forcing Straxus to abandon his plan. (AUDIO: Fugitives)

Reporting to the President, Straxus confirmed that Kotris was acting as they expected, and that his temporal drone was following him. However, he noted that the Doctor had disappeared, and the President ordered him to find the Doctor by any means necessary. Predicting what Kotris would do, Straxus and his assistant Sandun managed to rescue the Doctor and Molly from a group of Daleks. Straxus briefed the Doctor on Kotris, revealing him as a genetically altered Time Lord, but not revealing his identity, simply referring to him as X.

His TARDIS was attacked by the Daleks, and he programmed the Doctor's TARDIS with the coordinates to Srangor, seemingly sacrificing himself and his TARDIS. (AUDIO: Tangled Web) However, this was an illusion created for the Doctor's benefit, and he escaped back to Gallifrey. Straxus modified the retro-genitor particles implanted in Molly to target the Daleks instead of the Time Lords, but in a confrontation with Kotris and the Dalek Time Controller, the Time Controller killed him. This meant he could never become Kotris, and the scheme was entirely undone. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks)

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