|appearances= {{il|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sisters of the Flame (audio story)|Sisters of the Flame]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)|The Vengeance of Morbius]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)|The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tangled Web (audio story)|Tangled Web]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]''}}
|origin = [[Gallifrey]]
|voice actor= Nickolas Grace
|only cs = The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)
}}'''Straxus''' was a [[Time Lord]] who worked for the [[High Council]] of [[Gallifrey]].
}}
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During the [[War in Heaven]], '''Straxus'''{{'}}s future self was stranded on [[Earth]] in [[1888]] after [[Straxus's Time Ring|his Time Ring]] failed during a mission.
== Biography ==
== Biography ==
[[File:StraxusLightAtTheEnd.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 tried several plans to escape or gain the attention of his superiors, including manipulating [[Ludwig Cooray]] to create the [[God Machine (Secret Histories framing sequence)|God Machine]] in [[1893]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Gallery of Pigeons (short story)}}) founding [[Straxus Imperial]] to collect historical artefacts that shouldn't have been discovered until much later, and using an emergency setting to attract other [[Time Ring]]s. This last plan eventually succeeded in summoning [[Bernice Summerfield]] to [[London]], but [[Bernice Summerfield's Time Ring|her Time Ring]] was keyed to a specific genetic pattern so Straxus couldn't use it.
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 {{Pratt}}, 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]]'')
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.
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, now [[Coordinator]] of the CIA, 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]]'', ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'')
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]]'')
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]]'') Learning that his future self planned to use Molly O'Sullivan- contaminated by [[Retro-genitor particle]]s- to erase the Time Lords from history, Straxus attempted to modify the particles in Molly to 'target' the Daleks, but this plan was averted when the Doctor and his new acquaintance [[Nadeyan]] refused to sacrifice Molly, Nadeyan instead sacrificing himself to destroy the Temporal Chamber. Straxus tried to defend his actions, but the subsequent confrontation between the Doctor, Straxus and Kotris revealed that Kotris's actions had been motivated by Straxus's own self-loathing of some of the ruthless actions he had committed to help the Time Lords. As the Doctor and Molly departed, Straxus was exterminated by the Daleks, the Dalek Time Controller mockingly denouncing Straxus as a coward while noting that it would still remember these events despite Kotris's erasure. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'')
Straxus wasn't the only one trying to get the attention of a superior through ritual: his [[Cwej (species)|Cwej]] assistant [[Septimus]] was committing murders themed around the number seven, hoping for notice from a "[[Seventh Doctor|Pale God]]". The Cwej stabbed Straxus, resulting in his [[regeneration]], and also drew the attention of Straxus's previous self. The younger Straxus extracted, imprisoned, and interrogated his aborted future counterpart. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)}})
== Behind the scenes ==
[[Category:Homeworlders in the War in Heaven]]
* 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 the audio story ''[[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 claim that this was the only time in Big Finish's ''Doctor Who'' production where an actor had to be fired for performance deficiencies.
Straxus tried several plans to escape or gain the attention of his superiors, including manipulating Ludwig Cooray to create the God Machine in 1893, (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel[+]Loading...["The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)"], PROSE: A Gallery of Pigeons[+]Loading...["A Gallery of Pigeons (short story)"]) founding Straxus Imperial to collect historical artefacts that shouldn't have been discovered until much later, and using an emergency setting to attract other Time Rings. This last plan eventually succeeded in summoning Bernice Summerfield to London, but her Time Ring was keyed to a specific genetic pattern so Straxus couldn't use it.
Straxus wasn't the only one trying to get the attention of a superior through ritual: his Cwej assistant Septimus was committing murders themed around the number seven, hoping for notice from a "Pale God". The Cwej stabbed Straxus, resulting in his regeneration, and also drew the attention of Straxus's previous self. The younger Straxus extracted, imprisoned, and interrogated his aborted future counterpart. (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel[+]Loading...["The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)"])
