Draconia

Draconia
Type:	Planet
Location:	Near Spiridon
Natives:	Draconians
First appearance:	Frontier in Space
Appearances:	see list

Draconia was the home planet of the Draconians.

History

First Contact

Main article: First Contact

The First Contact was an event in Draconian history occuring in or around the 21st century during which a meteorite carrying a deadly alien micro-organism crash-landed on the planet. The meteorite brought with it a deadly plague which killed nine in ten of the Draconian population. Some claimed that this is when Draconia's childhood ended. (TV: Frontier in Space, PROSE: The Loyal Left Hand)

Second Contact

Main article: Second Contact

The Tenth Doctor attempts to explain his nobility to the forces of Fusek Kljuco on Draconia. (COMIC: Cold Blooded War!)

Years after the plague arrived the wandering explorer the Doctor, known to the Draconians as Karshtakavarr, (PROSE: The Loyal Left Hand) and his granddaughter made an uncontrolled landing on the planet and brought with them the knowledge to find a cure. On the Doctor's orders the Red Emperor isolated the planet from the rest of the Draconian Empire to protect it from the space plague. On his death he summoned the Doctor to stand vigil as a noble of Draconia. (AUDIO: Paper Cuts) By some accounts, the Second Doctor was the incarnation who was associated with this Emperor. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Space War, The Dark Path)

In the aftermath the Draconians began repopulating their world and spread their children to other worlds ensuring that their race could never be brought so easily to extinction again. The Karshtakavarr had been the Draconian's first recorded interaction with intelligent life beyond their own world and so he was treated as a God by the people. The Emperor's youngest daughter befriended the Karshtakavarr's granddaughter and wanted to travel with them beyond the stars. The trio made preparations to sneak away in the middle of the night but were accosted by the Empress Mishtila who stood up to the supposed deity and refused to give up her child even to a God. Legend had it that the Empress "kicked his arse" and that the Karshtakavarr "fought like a demon" before he and his granddaughter were driven away, with Mishtila allegedly giving him a whack on the backside with her fan as he went.

According to Vinaski, the Karshtakavarr's interaction with Draconia was the beginning of a hierarchy shift among the Draconians. Since then the female Draconians have taken a larger involvement in war and politics, training their daughters to fight and to secretly influence their spouses from behind the scenes. (PROSE: The Loyal Left Hand)

Later history

The Third Doctor visited Draconia several times, once during the beginning of the Dalek-human-Draconian conflict, and once prior to that. (TV: Frontier in Space) The oldest city on Draconia was Draylos. (AUDIO: The Draconian Rage)

Some time after their involvement in the Human-Draconian war, (TV: Frontier in Space) the Third Doctor and Jo Grant visited Draconia again, but at an earlier point in Draconian history. (AUDIO: Conspiracy in Space)

Draconian-Mim war

Main article: Draconian-Mim War

At the beginning of the 27th century, the Draconian Empire attempted to take back the asteroid which housed the Braxiatel Collection. They found themselves at war with the Mim, until the Mim were destroyed by Hass. The Draconians, falsely accused for this crime, were blamed by all the galactic community. (PROSE: Nobody's Children)

Other information

The Tenth Doctor included Draconia among his list of worlds with a mythology involving a "horned beast" of the likes that Earth and Dæmos had. (TV: The Satan Pit) Knaubetj the Three Horned Face was the Draconian Spirit of Chaos. (PROSE: All Mimsy Were the Borogroves)

Mr Smith once told Luke Smith that Draconia was home to one of many cultures throughout the galaxy which had developed its own brand of astrology. (TV: Secrets of the Stars)