Yana

Yana
Species:	Human
Place of origin:	Silver Devastation
First appearance:	Utopia
Appearances:	AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm
Main actor:	Derek Jacobi
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Professor Yana was a human identity the War Master created for himself when using a Chameleon Arch to escape the Last Great Time War.

Creation

After the War Master meddled with the Heavenly Paradigm, completely altering the state of the Time War to one that was ultimately more favourable to the Daleks, he then saw the Dalek Emperor take control of the Time Lords' Cruciform, (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm) which frightened him into fleeing from the war, (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm, TV: The Sound of Drums) the Master fled to the far end of time and sent his TARDIS away to Gallifrey without him. He then used a Chameleon Arch to turn himself into a human baby, intending to eventually resume control of his body once the Time War had ended. (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm)

Biography

Early life

Physically human, the rejuvenated Yana was found as a "naked child" on the coast of the Silver Devastation with only an "heirloom" fob watch, which he would carry throughout his life without ever thinking to open it, thanks to a perception filter. As a result of this perception filter on his own watch, he could never keep time and was always late for things.

Being a version of the Master, Professor Yana was plagued throughout his life by the Drumming (TV: Utopia) implanted into the Master's mind as a child (TV: The Sound of Drums) by the schemes of Rassilon. (TV: The End of Time) However, unlike the Master himself, Yana heard the Drumming in short, overwhelming "spells", rather than a constant, even drumbeat. (TV: Utopia)

Career as scientist

Yana spent his life moving from one refugee ship to another. He had retained the Master's brilliant intellect and became a scientist; this made him invaluable to the scraps of civilisation remaining in the universe at this late stage of its history, as scientists were in short supply. There had not been a university in a thousand years by the time of Yana's "childhood", and the title of Professor, which he took on, was described by him as nothing more than an affectation. Over the years, Yana heard stories about how there was time travel in the old days, but, ironically for a former Time Lord, he never gave them much credit.

At any rate, Professor Yana ultimately became responsible for sending the remnants of humanity (who had taken refuge to Malcassairo) to Utopia. He became friends with another scientist, Chantho, who was thought to be the last of the native Malmooth race. Together, they worked on the Utopia Project to convey the surviving humans from the planet Malcassairo to Utopia. (TV: Utopia)

Meeting his end

"I am the Master!" (TV: Utopia)

Yana met the Tenth Doctor, Jack Harkness and Martha Jones, who spoke phrases curiously familiar to him, phrases such as Time Vortex, "extermination", Time War, Daleks and regeneration. Martha made the Professor aware of a watch in his possession. Hearing voices in his mind that commanded and entreated him, he opened it and returned to his true identity. (TV: Utopia)

Legacy

Not realising the nature of the change which had come over her dear friend and coworker, Chantho continued to refer to the Master as Professor Yana shortly after his transformation back into a Time Lord. The Master loudly protested, insisting that "the Professor was an invention… so perfect a disguise that I forgot who I am". (TV: Utopia)

The dying Face of Boe, believed to have originally been Jack Harkness, (TV: Last of the Time Lords) who had been present on Malcaissairo on the day Yana reverted into the Master, (TV: Utopia) warned the Tenth Doctor of the Master's impending return with the last words "You Are Not Alone", (TV: Gridlock) which the Doctor eventually realised, when the time came for him to witness the impending transformation of Yana back into the Master, worked out to the acronym "YANA". (TV: Utopia)

Personality

In his human form, Yana was a benign old man who had lost faith in the Utopia project. His spirit was revitalised by the Doctor, and the two shared a mutual admiration. He was also somewhat scatterbrained and slightly lacking in self-confidence, at one point referring to himself as "a stupid old man." Also like the Doctor, Yana could not tell Chantho fancied him much the way Martha fancied the Doctor. (TV: Utopia)